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    Ace Lightning

    Aug 18, 2020 3 minutes
    Text by DUNCAN QUINN
    Photography by
    HORST ROESLER

    One hundred mph. More. More. Flat out. Rockabilly hair slicked back. Lewis leathers. Emblems ablaze. Twitching for another Woodbine to smoke upon a successful return. Well on the way to joining the exclusive Ton Up Club.

    This is the origin of the café racer. So named for London’s Ace Café, and the speed freaks who raced to the nearby Hanger Lane roundabout and back to

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