Cafe racer tv show online
Cafe Racer TV is a television show about the craft and culture of motorcycles..
Ton-Up TV
Interview By Gary Hallobeck
Last year, we announced the imminent return of Cafe Racer TV that ran on Discovery Velocity network from 2010 to 2015.
The series was expected to stream on the Xcelerate platform, but the show’s creator and host (and this magazine’s editor) Mike Seate had other ideas.
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“After waiting months for the powers-that-be to begin production, we decided that the TV landscape has changed quite a bit since CRTV first aired. We realized that with our contacts, knowledge of the custom bike scene and a dedicated staff, we could produce our own series with none of the corporate nonsense associated with mainstream broadcast media,” he said.
Pro-production work began last winter with the Cafe Racer magazine crew contacting many of the country’s top custom motorcycle builders about the ambitious project.
Most of the shop owners and bike builders who had appeared on CRTV were eager to work with Seate’s crew again, and most were thrilled to hear that Ton-Up TV would take a detour around the cheesy concepts and unnecessary fluff that marred the first series.