Anyone used to be a mod or rocker

[spongebob]

 

[chaser]

Or even as John Lennon came up with, a mocker

 

[spongebob]

Bank holiday weekend with the mods

Sorry still experimenting. Didn’t mean to post this But as it has this is Brighton over this weekend with a mod weekend

 

[denisejoe]

That’s a meeting of over 30 people

 

[tacr2man]

I was a mod but rode a motorbike

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[old-mo]

Hells Angels and Satans Slaves.............

Either a Beezer Rocket gold Star or Aerial Square 4..... Cannot remember....

 

[Tumerc]

Rocker,ice blue jeans,black boots,black leather jacket,white silk scarf,wonderfull days they were.

 

[jollyrodger]

Various homebrewed bikes. Mostly bsa, bits scraps and alsorts
A triton that was good on fuel but tough on shoe leather through pushing it.
Only thing reliable was the old man's Norman nippy. Or his Reliant when he was at work

 

[Lenny HB]

I was a mod but rode a motorbike

Snap.

 

[RowleyBirkinQC]

In more recent years, I think the IOW was the August bank hol rally venue?

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[Wildweasle]

In more recent years, I think the IOW was the August bank hol rally venue?

It was indeed when I lived there

 

[Spriddler]

I was a teenager living in Brighton all through the 60's and until I was twenty five. I started as a Mod but the leather clad gurrls turned my head so I became a Rocker.
For many years I have been at my classic British bike club's marquee at the annual Ace Café Reunion / Brighton Burnup on the prom raising money for the Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance.
20,000+ bikers are reckoned to attend. We usually raise around £650 to £900.

THIS is how Rockers turn out...........
Early morning.

Midday.......

 

[Reallyretired]

£900 from 20,000 attending. A tight lot less than 5p each.

 

[Nasher]

I'm far to young to remember mods & rockers but I was a greaser when we had skinheads & greasers

But, as I've posted in another thread, I can't even type/say the word sco... scoo...sco... Girly pop pop thing with little wheels & legshields - so I would never have been a mod

Today I rode my cafe racer to the cafe (where else would you go on it) in my leather jacket & jeans - rockers & greasers rule

 

[Wildweasle]

I was a rocker, BSA Gold star wish I still had it

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[Brockley]

Too young to be a true Rocker, but my 59 club membership number is 032134. I have two cafe racers and two mates that run scooters, Spend more time trying to keep the ‘poof chariots’ going than my bikes, but hey ho!

 

[denisejoe]

Depended on what bike I had at the time changed them often until I passed my car test then got a consul 375 never got wet after that

 

[Spriddler]

£900 from 20,000 attending. A tight lot less than 5p each.

They don't ALL go past our stand!
Yes, not a lot and that's with 5 or 6 of us at a time selling raffle tickets for two bikes and several runner-up prizes which we also take to other events. We collect all the kit from club H.Q. 170 miles away, set up at 0730 and are selling non-stop til about 5 or 6 p.m. when we have to dismantle and take the loaded van away ready to return it all 170 miles back to H.Q. All at our cost; fuel etc. It's damned hard work. Until 3 or 4 years ago we were taking £1200 - £1500 but folk have become more Yorkshire of late.

Even with the gurrls from the adjacent stand we have to work hard to get the punters....

We ride there and display around 15 to 20 old ('40's, 50's and 60's) Brit bikes in front of our stand..

and chat 'em up........

then take their money........

 

[Brains]

Blimey, I'm old enough to get the free bus pass. Mods and Rockers were way before my time!
My generation would be asking Punk or New Romantic ?

 

[Brockley]

I’ll never forget when I was a kid going down to the Rendezvous Cafe during TT week (sadly now apartments). The 59 club were prominent there and a guy on a scooter came down Church Marina to find a wall of bikes in his way. I’ll never forget the look on his face as several bikers lifted him and his scooter up shoulder hight and carried him over to the promenade and set him gently down to carry on his way. The roar that went up. Great memory.

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[joe and sue]

Anybody remember ACE cafe on a Sunday morning?
ACE - round Hangar Lane - ACE, who could do it quickest
Me on BSA GoldStar Clubman, full Cafe Racer trim, drum brakes front and rear with a 4 inch wide rear tyre
Absolute madness
Wish I still had it.

 

[Wildweasle]

They don't ALL go past our stand!
Yes, not a lot and that's with 5 or 6 of us at a time selling raffle tickets for two bikes and several runner-up prizes which we also take to other events. We collect all the kit from club H.Q. 170 miles away, set up at 0730 and are selling non-stop til about 5 or 6 p.m. when we have to dismantle and take the loaded van away ready to return it all 170 miles back to H.Q. All at our cost; fuel etc. It's damned hard work. Until 3 or 4 years ago we were taking £1200 - £1500 but folk have become more Yorkshire of late.

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Even with the gurrls from the adjacent stand we have to work hard to get the punters....

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We ride there and display around 15 to 20 old ('40's, 50's and 60's) Brit bikes in front of our stand..

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and chat 'em up........

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then take their money........

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My respects to you,very well done

 

[Snoopy]

Love the mod days,,Fred Perry as my school shirt always ended in detention ..

 

[bobnick]

Deffo Rocker. Hated being clean. 59 Club member. AND fishermans socks folded over the top's of ones boots.
Lot's of different bikes, best one a Triton. Past my bike test 1966.
Still ride and have bikes to this day.

RT now gone. The Wing replaced it.

 

[Vikdikdok]

Snap.

And me !
I had the dubious pleasure of being at Brighton at a mods & rockers 'friendly' meet up in the very early '60,s

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[pappajohn]

60s! A few years before my riding age. I was a 70s rocker.

 

[Nasher]

Anybody remember ACE cafe on a Sunday morning?
ACE - round Hangar Lane - ACE, who could do it quickest
Me on BSA GoldStar Clubman, full Cafe Racer trim, drum brakes front and rear with a 4 inch wide rear tyre
Absolute madness
Wish I still had it.

Johnsons cafe on the A20 close to what was then called death hill - down to the roundabout and back before the record ended

 

[Vikdikdok]

60s! A few years before my riding age. I was a 70s rocker.

Bah - your just a baby rocker

 

[Coolcats]

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Phew I’m too young for this thread

 

[Koppersbeat]

I got my car license in 1959 and my motorbike license in 1960. I couldn’t afford a car when I was in college so I bought a Vespa scooter and then a Lambretta and had a lovely white helmet with a peak front.
i suppose that made me a Mod !

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