CycleChat Investigates - Mods v Rockers

[Drago]

Which were you - or are you - and why?

Who won the big fights back in the day?

Who would win a dust up today?

There's only one way to settle this!

 

[Profpointy]

Tricky this one. On the one hand I ride a proper motorcycle not some daft scooter, but on the other hand am much more on the mod side of the fence regarding music, and even dress sense

 

[Oldhippy]

Definitely the old biker hippy with a rat chop.

 

[Drago]

Rocker here. Big bikes, leather jacket, rock n roll. If I could grow any hair I'd have a quiff.

 

[Ian H]

My mother would warn me not to go along a certain road because there were 'teddy boys' down there. She seemingly didn't connect this with her two cousins, with their quiffs, drapes, and shoestring ties.

 

[MontyVeda]

Weren't the 'clashes' mostly media hype rather than the tribal battles we romantically 'recall' from watching Quadrophenia rather than the news?

FWIW... i was a new born

 

[Brandane]

I'm a rocker! Ride a Honda VFR 800 and listen to Motorhead, Saxon, and AC/DC.. (as well as The Who, The Jam, and various Ska bands).
As with much of modern life, the biker/Mod thing has all become very PC, cuddly and nice. We even give each other that biker nod/wave thing that used to be reserved for our own kind. Things aren't like they used to be. Unless you ride a Harley or a BMW; then you just hate everyone else on the road no matter what they drive/ride, because they are obviously inferior beings!

 

[Drago]

Weren't the 'clashes' mostly media hype rather than the tribal battles we romantically 'recall' from watching Quadrophenia rather than the news?

FWIW... i was a new born

Sounds like a Mod walks amongst us and is trying to rewirite history! Get 'im lads!

 

[delb0y]

Rocker. 1200cc proper shaped bike and leather jacket and i do like good old rock'n'roll. But (whispers) the mods had some good music - Kinks and the Who and the Small Faces and all that southern soul.

 

[welsh dragon]

My brothers were rockers, always on bikes especially BSA Bantoms, then onto bigger bikes. My mum's house was a always full of bits of bikes. I myself spent a fair Amount of time on the back of motorbikes.

However I was neither smelly or greasy .

 

[Oldhippy]

Sold my VN 800 ratted of course last year as I wasn't as gung ho all weather on a motorsickle anymore. Getting the hankering again though to bash another chop together.

 

[Sharky]

I was neither, but when we moved down to Kent, we heard of a stretch of the A20 called Death Hill.
http://www.gfsmith.net/Death Hill.html

Famous for the motorbikes who used to frequent a local cafe and perform high speed rides past Brands Hatch.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Rocker all the way. I was too young to take part in the Mods v Rockers thing, but in the early seventies it was Greasers v Skinheads and I was one of the former. Got me a bit of a kicking on one occasion too.

 

[Drago]

I have a long history of antagonising mods.

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/lockdown-project-vespa.263777/#post-6055725

Now im old and sensible i disapprove ofmsuch behaviour

 

[jongooligan]

Foot in both camps.

T'owd man bought a Thunderbird as soon as he'd saved enough money from his first job. Moved to a Bonneville then a Beezer outfit when I came along so he could chuck my carrycot into the sidecar. He's had a string of Nortons. Hondas, Beemers and a Suzuki. At the age of 85 he couldn't get his leg over the bike any more so he bought a modern 350cc scooter which he had until he died.

So me and the bruv have bikes in our blood but we both listen to Mod & Ska music and we've both had a string of bikes. We dallied with Lambrettas and Vespas in our youth but I look like a circus act on a scooter being 6'4" tall and no matter how souped up they're never gunna have the poke of a decent bike.