Round, M: Scooterboys: The Lost Tribe (Two Finger Salute) - Hardcover

Round, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190821175X ISBN 13: 9781908211750

Verlag: Carpet Bombing Culture, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Scooterboys are the lost tribe of British youth culture. Unrecognised, uncelebrated and unwanted; misunderstood by a general public who mistook us for Mods. We weren t Mods though. By the 1980s myself and tens of thousands of scooter riders collectively rejected that label. Instead, we took the roadmap of British youth disaffection and carved a new bypass. This route took us beyond the UK s faded seaside resorts, allowing us to spread our creed across the continents. Tuned and customised Vespa and Lambretta scooters gave us freedom to roam; transport to live for the weekend. Shared experiences of riots, local hostility and police harassment built strong fraternal bonds that endure to this day. Despite decades of two-wheeled rebellion our threat level was never high enough to put us on the national security radar. This low profile has its benefits. We aren t doomed to follow the same cycle as Mods. First feared, then pilloried, accepted and finally adopted as part of UK s rich culture. As British as a vindaloo. The cult of Scooterboy has escaped death-by-public-acceptance, simply by remaining too underground. Too difficult to distinguish from what came before. And that s just perfect. You ll never see Scooterboys parodied in TV insurance adverts or low budget fly-on-the-walls. The poorly-rendered caricature is always some cliché Mod on a Christmas Tree scooter. If you rode to rallies in the 80s and 90s then this book will mirror your experiences. If you ve never had a scooter then it offers a rare glimpse of life inside the lost tribe of two-stroke terrorists.

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Martin 'Sticky' Round is a scooterboy of the class of '84 and very fortunate to be the last of an even rarer breed; the professional freelance scooter journalist. He spent best part of 29 years working for Scootering Magazine including a brief stint as editor. He's the best-selling author of 'The Complete Spanner's Manual for Lambretta scooters', and travel book Frankenstein Scooters to Dracula's Castle. More recently he co-founded online scooter magazine www.ScooterLab.UK. He started riding scooters at the age of 16 and has maintained a love affair with them ever since. Conveniently his wife Tracy and son Sam are similarly afflicted. He advocates growing old without ever growing up.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Carpet Bombing Culture
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 190821175X
• ISBN 13: 9781908211750
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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