Bob Mazzer At The Ace Cafe
December 10, 2016
Contributing Photographer Bob Mazzer & I joined a Bike Couriers Reunion at the Ace Cafe on the North Circular recently. Despite their fearsome black leather outfits, we enjoyed a generous reception from the bikers. “They’re outsiders,” Bob explained to me, “So they welcomed us because they recognised we’re outsiders too.”
Photographs copyright © Bob Mazzer
Ace Cafe, North Circular Rd, London NW1
You may also like to take a look at these other photographs by Bob Mazzer
Bob Mazzer’s Street Photography
9 Responses
leave one →
Why do they all look like they could do with a good bath and or shower? Is looking scruffy and durty part of the uniform?
Wonderful photos, I very much miss not being able to sit on my bike these days. Valerie
The lonesome Policeman has a look in the eyes either; “I wish I was anywhere else but here. Or ” What am I doing here; shall I just remove my institutional public jacket & join them, boy I wish I could ” 🙂
Fab pictures! We used to go to the Ace Cafe quite a lot when our kids were younger, for beans and chips tea. It’s really friendly.
Dear Brian,
The grime is due to the quality of London” s air, ie pretty dirty, imagine the state of their lungs.
Lovely record!
Great stuff!
Love & Peace
ACHIM
There isn’t a Policeman in the photos – have another look at the jacket ;-D
Love the photographs – I bet they’re all great guys and real characters.
Great photographs. These are unpredictable fellows. It was a gay motorcycle club, and a really tough lot, who badgered a local classical music station in Denver, Colorado (USA) into playing religious music on Sunday mornings….