This stupid respiratory thing is finally let loose of me. Luckily it seems the isolation bit worked and no-one else in the house caught it.
So, mods and rockers, and you leaned toward rocker, you said earlier?
I never got the versions that existed in America, for they seemed to carry the biker genre to extreme, and thirty years later suddenly the pretending to be a Hells Angel or a Pagan or an Outlaw got really mainstream amongst the ageing boomers. The real thing was nothing to emulate.
I don't know that the Americans ever had anything like the Mods until it had already become commercialised. And you know how the Yanks can run with something commercialised, Grin!
Never the Vespas here, or other scooters since the travel distances were so much longer here. Perhaps the closest thing here to the Mods were the muscle car people and the hotrodders before them. They never seemed out of sorts socially though.
I can appreciate the fact you really don't care for the American term; bikers in the '50s and '60s carried the outlaw thing to extreme here.
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