The World of Speed is a motorsports museum located in Wilsonville, Oregon. The museum features about 100 vehicles as well as educational exhibits on motorsports. The Museum’s exhibits change regularly, and several of their recent displays looked at motorcycle racing.
Café Racers
With regard to the name café racers, the Museum display states:
“So named because they would race in short, fast bursts from café to café down the narrow roads of England, café racers took bikes and stripped them down to make fast, if dangerous, race machines.”
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