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IanF wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:37 am It’s a bit north of me, but is middle enough to enable a large group meet, shall we all make the effort? Yes, Scotland is still far away, sorry, but you are all most certainly welcome.

http://caffeineandmachine.com , or Biscester Heritage is also an option if dates don’t work out.

Shall we sort a Feb date?

duncs500 wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:18 am Possibly depending on weather.

duncs500 wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:18 am Anyway, spill the beans about this 7!

Coaster1 wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:35 pm

duncs500 wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:18 am Possibly depending on weather.

+1

Sundayjumper wrote: Sun Feb 24, 2019 11:15 pm Am I the only one that finds the website nauseatingly hipster ?

JLv3.0 wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:35 am I have no idea what you two are on about - there is nothing pretentious about this AT ALL:

"Caffeine&Machine is more than just a Café, or restaurant, shop or event location. It has been designed from the outset to be a place where ‘Welcome’ is more than just the sign on the doormat, where tribes meet to parley. Created as a place for the various tribes of automotive and motorcycling culture to gather, C&M exists to embrace obsession. We encourage and nurture your own peculiar madness, because it is ours. Period correct, stance, extreme camber. Restoration, restomod or rat. Vintage, rod and racer. Yank, JDM and drift. Touring bike, sports bike, classic and Moto-X and everything in-between. We are No Man’s Land on Christmas day, the eddy in the human flow, the quiet space where things gather, to bob about in the lee of the stream. Not inactive, just… paused.

That does not mean to say that there’s nothing going on. Far from it. C&M houses art installations and maintains gallery space for everything from paintings, to sculptures to vintage racing cars with a story to tell. There are workshops on-site, with artists and fabricators fettling and restoring, creating, breaking and mending. There will be events, and parties and places to simply sit and have a coffee and look at the endless zoo of weird machinery that turns up. The Tao of Caffeine laced perfectly with the Zen of Machine.

With beautifully-appointed rooms and a restaurant that serves beef-based manna (as well as vegetarian and vegan ambrosia), an Emporium filled with the latest and most interesting merch from the best brands and limber event spaces that can be pulled and pushed into a variety of configurations, C&M will become a hub for car and bike culture. A place where you’ll find a stanced Civic sharing physical and intellectual space with a pre-war Bentley. A place where bikers can talk about cars, and drivers can discuss bikes, and everyone can get inspired by each other.

We are you. We are the United Nations of Moving Things. But more than that, Caffeine&Machine is a place for people to interact and inspire each other, like we did when ‘social media’ was an actual invitation to a party. You’re not a customer at C&M, you’re part of the story, and we’re a member’s club where everyone is already member. Our interest is all-encompassing, our scene widescreen and high-definition. No judgement, no sneering, no worries. We’re not aiming for utopia. But we’ll give it a damn good try.

Come and see us. All we ask for is an open mind."

JLv3.0 wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:35 am I have no idea what you two are on about - there is nothing pretentious about this AT ALL:

"We are you. We are the United Nations of Moving Things. But more than that, Caffeine&Machine is a place for people to interact and inspire each other, like we did when ‘social media’ was an actual invitation to a party. You’re not a customer at C&M, you’re part of the story, and we’re a member’s club where everyone is already member. Our interest is all-encompassing, our scene widescreen and high-definition. No judgement, no sneering, no worries. We’re not aiming for utopia. But we’ll give it a damn good try."

evostick wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:26 am

Sundayjumper wrote: Sun Feb 24, 2019 11:15 pm Am I the only one that finds the website nauseatingly hipster ?

No. It starts by bemoaning how superficial modern life due to instagram etc. whilst making all its own content look as superficial and instagram-esque as possible.