I was a rocker on the weekdays while travelling to work on my Triumph Tiger Cub motorbike, and after passing my test on it, I moved to a more powerful Triumph Speed Twin. I loved motorbikes simply for the speed and going low when cornering. On the scooter, you couldn't go low. However, at the weekends I'd transformed into a Mod, riding my mate's Vespa or Lambretta, and nightclubbing at the Flamingo and the Marquee club. I even ended up going on Ready Steady Go
Yea when i was about age 9 ish the first motorized thing i rode was my older brothers friends lambretta on a large field & i loved it haha. Then from about age 11 onwards me & mates would get unused or unwanted wrecked motorbikes..the usual suspects..bantams... tiger cubs etc & ride them on wast land till they stopped/broke because we couldn't fix them. But another one would turn up from somewhere...god knows where..cant remember. I passed my bike test in early 1976 age 17 ish & first bike on road was 1968 tiger 90.
Good collection and well put together. Quite a thought provoking piece really. Hard for me to tell how accurate some of the perspective were. Like Mods are bored Rockers have a bit more ambition. Clearly both sides confirm that there was a perception the the Rockers were the more manly and the Mods tended to be consumers. Though as I say, these are just views clipped by the media to construct a narrative. I wasn't there.
Thanks. Yea ages ago noticed a few old bits of mods & rockers video here & there on youtube & found out there was a 1960s panorama programme about mods rockers. Had a good search to find it but couldn't. Think its lost & gone now. & eventually i got in to video editing with clichamp... microsofts free basic editor & so had a go of putting together all the bits to get an idea what it would've been like.
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I was a rocker on the weekdays while travelling to work on my Triumph Tiger Cub motorbike, and after passing my test on it, I moved to a more powerful Triumph Speed Twin. I loved motorbikes simply for the speed and going low when cornering. On the scooter, you couldn't go low. However, at the weekends I'd transformed into a Mod, riding my mate's Vespa or Lambretta, and nightclubbing at the Flamingo and the Marquee club. I even ended up going on Ready Steady Go
Yea when i was about age 9 ish the first motorized thing i rode was my older brothers friends lambretta on a large field & i loved it haha. Then from about age 11 onwards me & mates would get unused or unwanted wrecked motorbikes..the usual suspects..bantams... tiger cubs etc & ride them on wast land till they stopped/broke because we couldn't fix them. But another one would turn up from somewhere...god knows where..cant remember.
I passed my bike test in early 1976 age 17 ish & first bike on road was 1968 tiger 90.
I cobbled together a few bits of youtube videos to make this Panorama edit remake.
The huge difference between these teens & the present ones is the former were young adults as opposed to self entitled infantile gits
Good collection and well put together. Quite a thought provoking piece really. Hard for me to tell how accurate some of the perspective were. Like Mods are bored Rockers have a bit more ambition. Clearly both sides confirm that there was a perception the the Rockers were the more manly and the Mods tended to be consumers. Though as I say, these are just views clipped by the media to construct a narrative. I wasn't there.
Thanks. Yea ages ago noticed a few old bits of mods & rockers video here & there on youtube & found out there was a 1960s panorama programme about mods rockers. Had a good search to find it but couldn't. Think its lost & gone now. & eventually i got in to video editing with clichamp... microsofts free basic editor & so had a go of putting together all the bits to get an idea what it would've been like.
I wonder where these lads are now ?
Yea who knows. But good chance most of them will be getting on a bit...But still alive & kicking as they say.
I wish I could meet some of these
Lads and Lasses and talk another their adventures , would be fascinating to me .
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