The Leather Boys (1964) featuring The Ace Cafe, Burn Ups and Verbal Fisticuffs!

[@mikey021984]

I only watched The Leather Boys this week, have been to Ace Cafe a few times when I've been in London and I love it there, especially when it's busy, I find it interesting to watch the scenes at Ace Cafe and see what has changed and what has stayed the same, also love the biker culture shown in this film. I love the storyline of the film, too

[@charliedrake247]

I want to go back to these happy days 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻

[@Miyah808]

colin campbell is my Grandad (Reggie) Its so nice to see him at his young age LOL- looks like a stud!

[@garraper]

after my army discharge in Germany in 1964,i back packed to Africa then up to London in the summer...i wish now that i could have spent more time there...i slept in an old car, in earls court..i love the birds in this video....

[@wesleygonzales2049]

this vintage stuff is cool as hell!

[@ste123456754]

my dad was a lorry driver back in the early 60s been in the ace cafe many times with him fun days for me then great memories

[@geoffboxell3906]

Happy days! I didn't get to the Ace till late 1964 ut it was still THE place to go, though I was a Chelsea Bridge & Bernies of Mordon Rocker myself.

[@veegreene3914]

Geoff Boxell I was a Chelsea bridge girl myself.

[@geoffboxell3906]

Vee Greene Ha - what years? The Bridge gets a lot of mentions in my novel Just for Kicks. See: www.smashwords.com/books/view/561718

[@veegreene3914]

Geoff Boxell 1966-67 I hung with a bunch of boys from Battersea. My guy and I rode a BSA Rocket Gold star. Bob had a Triumph and Vic an Ariel. We built bikes and rode all over the southern counties. It was wonderful.

[@geoffboxell3906]

Vee Greene Battersea? All my grandparents lived at Clapham Junction with others in Archer House Old Battersea.I always regarded Battersea as my second home. What School did you go to? I don't suppose the Rocket Gold Star had a blue fibre glass tank perchance?

[@falconoilcompany]

Great post and a great bit of editing. If youve never seen the film I recommend it, very atmospheric and accurate, I should know, I was fifteen in 1961. Enjoy your life and stay clean.

[@benters3509]

Funny, I remember the 50s in black and white, but the mid 60s, I remember in color. Lots of it. Lots of sunshine, Lots of beautiful new things to do and places to go. When you see it portrayed here in monochrome, it starts me shivering again.

[@寺本春郎-q9k]

very very wonderful Rokers and Ace cafe

[@robinhepworth2079]

we was paid 2pound to ride out of the ace ,when they made this film many moons ago

[@marcjboy1]

No...really! That's amazing! I also remember him in a popular TV series 'A Family at War'. Great actor.

[@Roadghost88]

I swear this culture is undergoing a revival among youth. Café racer style bikes and rat bikes are in demand right now. Anything kids can cobble together that looks vintage. Insurance companies are trying to get in the way by jacking up rates. The world was a lot more innocent back then.

[@Fletch1821]

This could almost be "Quadrophenia" filmed in black-and-white! LOL

[@endorno]

Hi Eric - appologies for the late response. I'm really pleased you like this version. You can get the same copy from the Ace Cafe itself (that's where I bought it). If you can't get up their in person I'm sure you'll be able to get their merchandising department to post you a copy. I'm not sure of the price but it's not the earth. Cheers, Steve.

[@harryrose7436]

endorno

[@theevilladypandora]

Nice to see how it is meant to be, not a load of chavs on hairdryers

[@redrock1965]

ooooo cheeky ha ha

[@itgetseasierlessitry]

60s British Kitchen Sink Drama at its best.

[@mickronson8039]

Tinker from Lovejoy was a ton-up boy then!

[@endorno]

Hi there - a terric piece of acting by your grandad I must say. I was actually up the Ace Cafe last night (every friday night is Bike Night)...it looks almost exactly the same...brilliant!!

[@benters3509]

This is a great film to watch in its entirety. North to Aberdeen? I'd be frozen stiff by the time I got to the entrance to the A1! Do my biking in California!

[@joeblack8915]

On a shit Harley Davidson no doubt.

[@grindupBaker]

We went to the office Christmas party 1968 but it got so cold by midnight my wife got a ride home in the boss's Jaguar. I had to stop every 10 minutes going home to heat my gloves on the tail pipe or gloves couldn't stop my hands freezing for the clutch & front brake.

[@Kuntyful]

a great film...

[@hairypunk]

Was in the ace cafe a couple of years ago,nearly all the staff were eastern european,should have expected that,but didnt.....

[@asena123]

lol - No cornetto's either! Weird seeing Ace like that!!

[@porkscratchings5428]

Dodgy, very dodgy, hazel eyes….😂

[@tonupharry]

it does rain everyday

[@grindupBaker]

I simply couldn't afford to be a Leather Boy in 1965. My mates were Leather Boys. Leather Boys are wealthy toffs really. I was Canvas Boy (with Leather gloves & boots, not Canvas boots, don't be silly) and a 250 cc Honda that could make 10,000 rpm I think.

[@staypress]

was the ace cafe on the north circular in London

[@endorno]

Yeah...and according to the film it rained every day!

[@BillCompo]

2:40 - 3:35 the honeymoon is over.

[@RockyM3003]

Can someone upload the whole movie somewhere and link me? haha.

[@50YearOldTeenager]

Thanks for showing these great clips. London to Edinburgh in a day on these bikes, very dubious. And how would that Ariel Arrow keep up with the 650s I see 'Dodgy' pronounces it KAFF and not Café at 3:26. Whats more there is no French accent over the e. So lets say Kaff and not Kaffey haha.

[@SpeedTriple59]

50YearOldTeenager Good call since the Yank programme on Sky Café racers..we have been overrun with the term Café racers like yourself its down the Caff if the Yanks try to re invent this then they should have been called Dinner racers...

[@EricWatts87]

Endorno, Where did you get a copy of this on DVD? Bought a copy a while back and it was naff quality whereas this is brilliant! Stuck with the VHS version at the moment but would be nice to get it on DVD for my Dad.

[@rosewhite3495]

They don't go much faster than the ThamesTrader truck in the background.

[@grindupBaker]

Yeah. Good point. I can't tell whether they speeded the film up. Sometimes the cars going the other way do a funny jerky action.

[@TheFarinared]

Not dissimilar to the frozen North.by pass racing. Every night

[@FatZane]

this is a cool cult movie!!!

[@xxjonboy]

The gay theme only emerges at the end, and contextualises everything else.

[@conanhayle]

makes me cringe to wach this now,, oh happy days

[@rodtemplar]

lol

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Nowadays most whites kids in London speak English with a hybrid Jamaican dialect which is very different from the anglo saxon dialect of English which is spoken in this cockney film. In the early 2000's, young white kids on council estates in London became JAMAICANISED. This is when they starting speaking with English with a hybrid Jamaican dialect. For example, Essex county is the only place in Britain where the cockney dialect/and or accent is still spoken. TO SUMMARISE: In the 1980's all the national British companies when through a process called national - PRIVATISATION - and then almost - SIMULTANEOUSLY - all the poor - NATIONAL - white kids endured a process called - JAMAICANISATION - which did indeed definitely - LEAD - to all poor - NATIONAL - white girls on council estates quickly - UNDERGO - a process called Jamaican extreme - INSEMINATION - and thus all the young - RESULTING - half cast babies initiated a full - NATIONAL - process called extreme - BASTARDISATION. Remember everyone, that the last point regarding bastardisation is entirely optional, and is not my view but instead is the view of white nationalists.