Ace Cafe Lahti Bikes, Cars, and Rock´n Roll
Ace Cafe Lahti was founded in 2011 and it is the first Ace Café outside of London. The original Ace Café London was established in 1938. Now Ace Cafes have spread all over the world! Check all the Ace Cafés HERE.
Opening hours:
Ace Cafe Lahti and Finnish Motorcycle museum opens after winter break 30th of April 2024.
You can visit in the museum on Monday to Friday at 10am to 4pm.
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Ace Cafe restaurant Food & Events
Events at Ace EVENTS DURING WEEK AND EVERY WEEKEND
Ace Cafe offers delicious burgers, fresh salads and finger food, something for everyone!
During summer and until last days of September Ace Cafe offers its customer variety of different events. You can find almost all motorcycles’ brands’ presentation and test drive days from Ace Cafe.
Every month’s second Saturday we arrange American Car Cruising with live music! Other live music and rock’n roll conserts are also held here, and you can check all our events from our calendar!
We have a large terrace with a view to beautiful Lake Vesijärvi. We offer our customers free parking and wifi in addition to delicious food and cold drinks.
Every year visitors all around the world find their way to our restaurant and museum.
History of ace cafe since 1938
The Ace Cafe was established in 1938 on the then brand new North Circular Road surrounding London. It was a simple roadside Cafe catering to travelers, particularly truckers. With its proximity to Britain’s fast arterial road network, and being open 24 hours, the Ace Cafe soon attracted motorcyclists too.
Year later the Ace Service Station featured eight petrol pumps, all catering for different brands. During the war period the pumps provided an all-night service. Also featured was a “Washmobile” believed to be the first automatic car wash in the UK.
On 16th November 1940, the cafe received a direct hit from a bomb during the blitz of London in WWII and was completely destroyed. Apparently no one was killed or injured.
After the war the Ace Cafe was reopened in temporary accommodation and subsequently rebuilt in 1949.
Finland’s Motorcycle Museum 100 unique motorcycles
In the same building with Ace Cafe is Finland’s Motorcycle Museum that was founded same time as the Ace Cafe. Motorcycle Museum has over 100 motorcycles and historical items related to motorcycling.
Themes in Museum change every year. This year’s themes are Harley Davidson 120th celebration year, and wide Jawa exhibition. Museum shares the same opening hours with Ace Cafe.
Rikuo Motorcycle Story one of a kind story
The Stranger-Than-Fiction Saga of Rikuo,
Harley Davidson and the Birth of Japanese Motorcycle
In 1935 Sankyo Company acquired a license to manufacture Harley-Davidson motorcycles in Japan. A part of the deal was that the bikes could not be exported outside of Japan and that the bikes would be called Rikuo, a name that roughly translates to “the king of the roads.”
With Alfred Richard Child at helm, the mass production of RIKU’O started. This marked a beginning for Japan’s large motorcycle industry. The original RIKU’O factory was destroyed in the Hiroshima bombings.
Only a handful of Rikuo bikes exist outside of Japan and Riku Routo has a bike so unique that even Japanese collectors are not known to have one. The bike in question, a RIKU’O 1200 with a sidecar, found its way to Russia during the war from where Riku Routo salvaged it in 1996 – in its original shape.
See Riku’O in media on Finnish Motorcycle Museum website
Ace WORLD all-around-the-world
Ace Cafe London
Ace Corner
North Circular Road, Stonebridge
London NW10 7UD, United Kingdom
https://london.acecafe.com/
Map
Ace Cafe New Hope
https://www.acecafenewhope.com/
Ace Cafe Kuala Lumpur
No. 21, Ace Corner KL, Lot 359,
Jalan Raja Abdullah,Kampung Baru,
50300 Kuala Lumpur,
Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Map
www.acecafekualalumpur.com.my/
Ace Cafe Beijing
Train Square, 751 D-Park (798)
Jiu Xian Qiao Rd, Chaoyang District
Bejing, China
Phone: +86 (0) 10 8456 7989
Map
acecafe.cn
Ace Cafe Luzern
Sonnmatthof 2, 6023 Rothenburg
Luzern, Switzerland
acecafeluzern.ch
Map
Ace Cafe Lahti
Mail:
lahti@acecafe.fi
Phones:
Riku Routo +358 40 071 2310
Ace’s phone +358 44 720 7918