We’ve teamed up with a fellow rider and bad-ass artist, Osiris Rain, to create one of our first, limited edition, artist collaboration shirts. His take on the Mods vs. Rockers subcultures is really an amazingly detailed and layered interpretation, representing many facets of the history and iconography we’ve all grown to know. We’re looking to [...]
We had a blast at Raleigh Euro Bike recently, meeting a bunch of the North Carolina guys from Do The Ton Triangle. This was the third year for the event, held at The Shops at Seaboard Station, and it looks like it’s going strong. These guys had trophies for the crowd favorites in about a [...]
Welcome to spring everyone! In honor of awesome riding weather and sweaty, worn out shirts everywhere, we’re making our shirts even easier to stock up on. All of our 100% Made in the USA cafe racer t-shirts are now $18.99! Head to our gear page and buy five now! (OK. Maybe not five. Three; and [...]
So of course one of the rad things about working in this industry is meeting so many different people. We’re lucky to have so many great cafe racer riders here in Charlotte, North Carolina, that sometimes we get a bit complacent. But our heads were jarred a little bit after having the chance to hang [...]
Sadly, we found this short news article about the state of the American clothing industry, which proves that it’s nearly non-existent. Although we do ride imports from other countries, we think it’s pretty easy to take a stand on some of the simpler things like clothing and local food and goods. It’s why our stuff [...]
Posted on January 6, 2012 by
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Tags: 50s, 60s, Cafe Racer Motorcycles, Cafe Racer T-S, Cafe Rags, Made in the USA Clothing, Mods vs. Rockers, Pinup, retro
Yep. The first rumble to make the Cafe Rags to-do list this year is none other than the first annual Mods vs. Rockers in Charlotte, North Carolina! On Saturday June 2nd 2012, the Queen City will be invaded by hoards of vintage motorcycles and scooters paying homage to the two conflicting British youth subcultures of [...]
We’re really proud of the fact that we design, source and produce all of our gear in the good ol’ US of A. It’s important that we keep as much industry here as we can, so it’s great that Cafe Rags is getting listed on “Made in the USA” web sites which only promote those [...]