American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 173 December 2013 | Page 22

bespoke. With the involvement of the Ace Cafe we
decided that we’d like to go for an art deco style
look.”
The involvement of the Ace Café that Paul
mentions is the iconic London gear-head venue that
now has fans across the globe. The business has
given its blessing to allow Paul to open a version of
the London café inside the Krazy Horse store. Given
that both Paul and Mark Wilsmore, the owner of the
Ace, frequently attend the same events, it was only
natural that they should discuss working together,
and the project goes back to 2008, as Paul explains:
“I first got to know Mark during the S&S 50th
Anniversary Build-Off as we both had bikes entered,
and then we began building a cafe racer for the Ace,
and the relationship has developed. For us it has
been a challenge, running a café is something we’ve
never done before. The clothing is the same, rather
than just being the normal biker’s shop where T-shirts
get piled up in a corner, we’ve made a feature of it.
To help with that aspect we brought in new people,
people who specialize in those particular areas.”
s a result of needing to bring in specialist staff
to help run the new departments, the staff level
at Krazy Horse has more than doubled to now being
13 employees, and that figure looks set to rise again
as Paul has now acquired a second retail unit of
6,000sqft across the road, which will operate as a
new motorcycle dealership stocking Indian and
Victory motorcycles and Morgan cars, while the core
custom build business will remain in the current
location.
A second development of the working
relationship between Paul and Mark Wilsmore has
been the introduction of the Limited Edition Ace
1200 CR Street Special cafe racer. Just 11 hand-made
bikes will be built at Krazy Horse, in association with
Ace Cafe London’s Stonebridge Motor Company
(StoMoCo), to celebrate 110 years of HarleyDavidson (one for each decade) and 75 years of Ace
Cafe London.
The bike is based around a 1,200cc V-twin engine
from H-D, which is mounted in a Norton ‘featherbed’
style wide-line frame built especially for the project.
Fully detailed with high gloss black powder coated
cylinder heads, primary cover, cut down timing case
and an Ace Cafe Racer points cover, the engine
breathes through an S&S Cycle Super E carburetor,
and exits gases via a polished stainless steel, handmade exhaust system.
A six-plate clutch ensures power is transferred to
the five-speed gearbox; and stainless steel wheel
spokes, polished aluminum hubs and specialist tires
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