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I know mods became skinheads, got into the northern soul scene or became hippies when they realised the limitations of speed. What did the rockers become by the end of the sixties? My mind’s eye has the image of rockers either joining outlaw motorcycle clubs, becoming Teddy Boys, getting into the leather subculture or becoming hippies. Am I right?

I was a young Rocker in 1964 and went to Brighton (not on Mayday though) I went with friends, 3 of us were Rockers and the other 4 were Mods, We all managed a day in Brighton without fighting each other. Good times.

I'm told I was born in 1964 in the US. I've been messing around with British bikes since I was 17. now got a 1951 Thunderbird almost ready for the road by springtime. I'd find them dirt cheap in the 1980s but those days are over!

5:11 , That 's the roughest hand poked tattoo I've ever seen . I wonder what it looks like now .

We wadnt al bad

Good bikes back then.

3.20 seeing that poor lad getting beat up seeing his face I felt really sorry for him 😢 as I've grown up i hate seeing people get out numbered and set upon by cowards

I know i was well past the times being born in ,87 ive still always been fascinated by the culture of the Times I watched qudraphenia about 10 years ago and I loved it. Being a brit I prefer British made films I still learn something new all the time about people and the way of life.

Lulu seems to have become more appealing here, than when she was a youngster

Thanks so much for posting this! We link to it in the shownotes for the Ace Cafe podcast with Mark Wilsmore.

I enjoyed being a mod in 1983

Funny they called them gangs back then. Now they are considered subcultures. The media is cancer.

Once some idiot tries to make money out of a trend its finished.

idiots

Narcissists.

Fighting with Rockers boosted Mod reputation.

You got the wrong person narrating this bit mate. She sounds like someone narrating an African safari, "and over here we have a full-on skinhead doing a mating ritual trying to attract a mate" (brought to you by mutual if Omaha's Wild Kingdom, now back to you Marlin Perkins)... Posh ain't know noffin' about us working class Londoners. LoL.

Another divide and conquer government prank

I was young, I was fresh faced, I dressed snazzy, in the blink of an eye it disappeared...............live your young lives fast and furious my friends and worry about the consequences later!

"Tuning for Speed" The Bible written by Phil Irving

OMG, if I were a kid in that era, how could I not be a rocker??? I'd still like to take a sledge hammer to a Lambretta!!!

No one was in to hip hop back then. How come hip hop never ride bikes today?

Ahhh this was what that scene was in “Brighton Rock”

Mods led to English slang for cigarettes.

If is wasn't for The Who's "Quadrophenia" A lot of Americans would have never known about the Mods & Rockers,

The red devils mc sorted them out

I always imagined Rockers to be mechanics or construction workers for a living. Mods on the other hand worked as shop assistants in M&S or British Home stores

There are great things about all these subcultures- especially the clothes and the music. They all have powerful influence on the way I dress today.

Who were cooler, mods or rockers ?

my childhoods... feels like closed to death while I'm stand at top of moving mopad...it not gonna work and don't do that...only God!...only God! ...can give us permission to do that stunts...yup...feels high like a Jericho statues at top of mountain, lucky for me I'm stop my habits early so I'm not end up like Indian Lary....amen.

The media LIE to suit there narative, fukin lying scum.

I am a weird mixture of BOTH....

Just a question, are mods and rockers like a British version of socs and greasers?

Old Rockers never die,they only smell that way. Rock 'n' roll forever.👍🍺😎

In Lancashire all bikers were mates. Most of the park and pub fights were between rockers from different local areas.

Twas a birth of counter culture.. it was finally fine to be seeking out individualities... Folk was turning electric , country was turning rock & The Who had Tommy .... tie together anne Margaret Tina Turner and Oliver Reed for the transition in celebriry guest appearance in sync with their own broader audience. Grunge in the early 90z resumes this process the wY heavy metal& Glam rock fell away where plastic punk ( no doubt averil levene) & emo styles floped out of the exploration. alternative music fumbled with savage garden nora jones and thank fukkccfully evolved into industrial trailing into electro , dance music , experimental designs that sound like arthouse blips & blops & herein is the cuban syndrom , Christian stadium Rock & blood of satan sneekers ... Hey mr tambourine man...

In 1964 in upstate NY it was the Hoods vs the Squeaks. The Hoods being the bikers and the Squeaks being clean cut. I was a Hood, still am today at age 75. Still ride motorcycles too.

I have a scooter & a motorcycle. Wonder how common that was in that era.

You have to remember every Mod would've been a Rocker one/two years earlier. I can remember looking forward to reaching that magic age of 16 and getting a Triumph Bonneville or Norton Dominator but just like the Teddy Boys to Rockers the Mods were the next 'fashion 'move. Rockers weren't called Rockers until there were Mods, that was the distinction. The Rockers stayed behind, the Mods were the new phase, a new phase with 'STYLE' metaphorically printed on their Suits, their Parkas, their Scooters their Image. I loved my copper plated GS160.....but I look at a Triumph Bonneville today.....and wonder... could I have been a Mod on a Triumph? What a machine!

Great to see that the Mods and rockers are still around today but thankfully not having punch ups on a bank holiday weekend on a beach

My aunt was a Mod and she fell in love with a rocker they met on that weekend in Brighton but ended up staying away from the fights and later on they dated and eventually got married in 1970 and are still together today and they still go to Brighton where they met infact their just back from there

Being a revival mod in the 80s was worse....I had to constantly dodge hardcore oi skinheads and casuals , both groups hated mods with a vengeance!!

I was a mod back in the day but give me a choice now and I'd take the rockers bikes any day. Just not the 'style' or music :-D

Scooters……For men who like to feel the wind on their vaginas ….. 😂

Notice 10 mods against 1 rockeries on one no contest

rockers merdosi...

und was ist daraus entstanden?? mehr oder weniger der amerikanische rocker und schopper scheisdreck !!!

1983 the back end of the Mod revival, I was a 13 year old Mod, fish tail, Fred Perry's , boating jackets, then that summer holiday my mate came back from Liverpool, all Tacchini, Fila and Adidas, we became casuals, football changed for us that year, never looked back, still got a bean can when I was 17...

😂🤣😂 Very different from when I first got my licence here in the early 80s here in Australia. 😂🤣😂 Can see why my dad got arrested so much in the late 50s Britain being a Biker.

Pussies on bith sides.