The Apprentice, This Weeks Coke Up!

[ToraToraTora]

Doing an advert for a motorcycle, let's hire an actress who cannot ride! Gawd elp us! They had a catalogue of actors and their abilities! Perlease!

[Tuvok]

The one that went was very bossy - got the impression that it was her way or nothing!

[ToraToraTora]

....they didn't know what a cafe racer was! Un-effing-believable!

[Tuvok]

Zipzap - made me thing of a lighter (zippo!)

[smurfchops]

End of the road Lord Sugar mate

[ToraToraTora]

The sad thing is the biker of the group had a brilliant name but the sub team dumped it. I though Caf-E racer was good.

[THECORBYLOON]

What is a cafe racer then?

[ToraToraTora]

gawd it gets better, ask a room full of journo types if they know what Onomatopoeia means! Gawd they're thick!

[Aircooledfool]

A standard bike adapted with wannabe racing parts , dropped bars short seat , reduced mudguards etc etc. some professionally made e.g the Triton ( triumph engine like bonneville, in a Norton frame usually featherbed variety , but back in the day most home made , I made a few myself , some good some not so good

[THECORBYLOON]

Cheers for that. Would you expect folk to know that?

[Aircooledfool]

When lived in Holland they used to do the same sort of thing to push bikes, known as cafe rockets the idea being to race between cafes . The only suggestion of comfort being the means of carrying a crate of beer on the back , or perhaps an understanding female companion

[elliemay1]

At least the right person was fired.

[Aircooledfool]

You would know if you are a biker, if not then probably no as cafe racers are much less popular now than they were “when I were a lad”

[ToraToraTora]

ACF, yes the origin is the 60s when they used to race between cafes, initially the bikes where standard but they soon started getting enhanced. The most famous cafe of them all is ACE, still there. The modern cafe racer is essentially a homage to those. Oh and it's caff not cafay! though modern bikers often don't realise that.

[Aircooledfool]

Semantics , but Thankyou anyway

[ToraToraTora]

ACF, I don't know your pronunciation I was just adding info.

[andy-hughes]

Picking a actress without the word 'rider' under her image in the casting book was a gaff even by their collective monumentally gargantuan standards!

[Aircooledfool]

You can still but a new cafe racer styled bike but the thrill of the home ones was that they were unreliable, too fast, underbraked and possibly dangerous but they looked the dogs . Just the job for tearaways in the sixties, but the modern article is way too homogenised and de-risked

[Aircooledfool]

But??? Buy of course

[ToraToraTora]

did you see "your fired"? Love Tom Allen.... " I love riding a soldier" - PMSL!

[Aircooledfool]

Not sure if you are asking me , but is no anyway