I was an ex Met police officer when they had the scooter come to the island I was also a publican , police came to my pub and told me to ban the scooters/mods , I declined and had a group of 16 come to the pub, they asked if they could put some tables together so they could sit together with their mates and we agreed they all had a meal and then offered to assist in clearing the tables , after a few pints I asked where they intended to stay overnight and they were going to camp in Gurnard, however the Police had two motor bikes just down the road hiding out of view waiting for them to leave so I suggested that they used the pubs back garden to camp in, they accepted and they settled down to a drinking session after setting up their tents, by about 10 pm they had decided it was time for bed and went to their tents, I left it until 11.30 pm when i started to take my dog for a walk before I told the police that they were wasting their time waiting for the mods ! next day we did them a breakfast and they wash up, cleared their tents and left the garden clean and tidy, it was an absolute pleasure to have their custom and they returned in subsequent years, never any problem , genuinely nice lads
Some great comments. The documentary stands on its own two feet. Well selected interviews and general footage, you feel you've hopped back 40 years. The ruddiness of the cross section of scooterists is priceless. 🎯
Was a mod in the mid sixties. Lambretta Li 150, was going to trade it in for an SX200 but a week before I went head on into a Standard Vanguard luckily went over the car and landed on my backside, no crash helmet just a badly cut leg. No SX200. After 56 years still have my parka with the Lambretta badges. Great times.
I went back in 1983 and 1984' rode all the way from Worcester to Southampton ferry terminal, Had a fantastic time there on the island and the locals were great to us, shal never forget that sight of over 10,000+ scooters approaching the Ryde campsite, Absolutely awesome time of our scootering youth, 💯👌, ✊PATCH✊
I was never a MOD or a Rocker during the 60`s I just did my own thing and dressed how I felt comfortable, since several of my mates had been killed on motorcycles my father taught me to drive and we shared an Austin A 35 which I had the use of at weekends , So whilst I was more of a Rocker i would have looked stupid in motorcycle kit in a car , I also had friends and enemies in both camps so going to dances etc was somewhat interesting, in the fullness of time i completed my apprenticeship and then decided to become a Police Officer but since I had had several unhappy meetings with the Hampshire Constabulary I joined the Met. which really suited my attitude to people , so when i left the Job I had more understanding of people and could empathise with them wanting to enjoy themselves without being banned from this and that for no reason. Hence why I was happy to welcome them into my pub , they returned on several later visits to the Island and never ever caused me any trouble
The club where they are in this was my dads nightclub. He was over the moon they turned up. It helped keep the club solvent that year. Thanks IOW council.
Brilliant video. Ex scoter boy personality & what brilliant times we had. No phones & no social media. I cant believe how people smoked back then. Almost a like a fashion accessory.
I still have a GS160 but also an Aprilia Tuono - Italian style. I ride the scooter on my own as the great days of '79/'80's are long gone. Subjectively nothing worse than seeing plump 55+ comedy mods on Modenas, Scomadis and the like wearing shoddy replica parkas covered in a selection of trashy badges. Still love the original lifestyle and the music though.
Was this rally at Ryde, IOW? If so, I was there. Great memories. I was one of the Essex mob (Gregg) and I travelled down in the back of Tony Class’s van (RIP fella) and remember hiding under a blanket with my mates (two Toby’s, Deano, Dave Rowley) to bunk the ferry. So many characters back then: Gamba, Dom, Gary the Brummy, Tony S, ‘Check it Out’ John, the Maidstone crew (Craig, Lee, ‘Two Bob’ Rob), Justina (whom I had a huge crush on) and the really creepy Mark Johnson. I remember Ian Jackson bouncing around behind the decks spinning amazing and rare tunes. I was a regular at The Biz and Sneakers and played a couple of gigs at Joolz in Edgware Road with my band Almost Grown. Still got my CCI and Sneakers membership cards in a shoebox somewhere and still wear a lot of the clobber. Wish I was eighteen again and re-living those days.
That was a great docu and I didn't want it to end. It opened my eyes or should i say ears to the fact that the music being played was in certain ways very Northern soul which suprised me. Is there a tracklust/list as there were some right stompers?! Ps i was 13 in 86 and heavily into Hip Hop, electro and breakin, plus was into James brown. We had our own scene and the clothing was bomber jackets with RUN DMC and Public Enemy patches (safety pinned not sewn on as it was a cooler look!! ) and spray painted trainers with fat laces. The acid house scene really pulled together all scenes and you'd invariably dancing on pills with mods, rockers, metallers, punks, casuals, hells angels. You name it! 1980s and early 90s was a great time to be completely honest ❤
As a kid 84 to 87 my parents and grandparents owned Windermere guest house 3 Victoria road Sandown. Three doors from library. My age 7 left at 11, loved the scooter rally coming through so friendly to us local kids. And that smell of two stroke...
So cool to see so many young people on the scooter rally I got a scooter in 97 and there was a bit of revival with the indie scene .it would be great to see the next revival on youth coming through to keep the scene alive.
superb stuff, loved this, went to I,O,W in the 90,s two,s up, me pillion, broke down at Telford and A,A took us rest of way to portsmouth ferry port, us fae Scotland.
''Inky'' from Irvine and big Paul O'Neill coming out of the taxi with Lorraine Glasgow Mods, know them very very well, great memories from a great time in our youth, ahhhh the power of cool nostalgia!!!
Me and my mates did the 1986 mod rally brilliant weekend I've been a mod since 1979 I owned my first scooter in 1977 a 1966 li150series 3 mod for life you the best style ever
I'm in my 60s now and in my time have been a Mod, a Skinhead, hung with bikers including Hell's Angels etc. There was some trouble between gangs and also the odd bit of *bashing, something I now deeply regret. I'm certain that having those groups gave us an opportunity to belong, it gave us identity. What is there now? Postcode gangs stabbing each other... otherwise it's join the narcissistic 'influencers' on some crap social platform. We had it good!
Looking at this video just proves how much worse it is today with social media etc. I was a biker in late 70's and early 80's and never had with the Mods. I even gave one a lift home on my Suzuki GS750 blasting down the A4 at midnight at 120 one night as his scooter had broken down. I did like their clothes..very cool look.
I left the scene in 84 bought an evil motorcycle and mooched around this sceptred isle until by 87 I'd let love reign o'er me and I settled down. But the the love of the music, the sense of style in the clothes they stayed in my DNA which was passed on to my boys but sadly not to my girls their taste in music is utter wank.
I had a great weekend. I was only 15. I've seen myself a couple of times in this video and a few of me old mates. Great memories. 4.54 minutes in. Me on the left, Andy shill with back to camera and Toby Ryan on the right.
Brilliant top mods from the past but take a good look at the isle of wight scooter rally today its full of 40 stone black T shirted oil barrels on bad scooters Great vidio. Thanks mac the mod BCFC 1875 .
No fake tans, bolt-on tit, Daffy Duck lips, tattoos or mobile phone obsession. It was also an era when there still was youth culture, unlike today where the scene has been stale and static for the best part of 20 years.
Is the bouncer behind Tony Class at 26:39 Garry Wills of Palance farm Northwood, Cowes? Certainly looks like him to me. Small world, Isle of Wight. Russ.
I have been in Scene in 80s when I was teenager. I like this Documentary lot. Mod Scene start in Ontario Canada like Toronto, Durham Region, more places in Ontario Canada, more places in Canada. I have been in London, UK. I am still Mod.
They were no trouble at all. I live in Bournemouth and they used to have Phoenix rallies there, trouble was train loads of Skinheads and football hooligans used to come down sometimes from London and disrupt the rallies and make their lives hell for the weekend and I'm afraid they were no match for them. That's why the rallies had a reputation for trouble.
Hi! Crunchomatic. I never been to Birmingham before Only some place in UK like Winsor Castle, Stonehenge, Bath, London, UK. Where I live I am Region Mod in 80s - 1994. I didn't own Mod Scooters at all but my Mod friends did have Mod Scooters. I still dress up Mod. How I got in Mod fashion, I start dress up Mod, looking at old Pictures of The Who, lot more Mod bands how they dress up like movie Quadrophenia, I listen what Mods listen, I meet up with my Uncle, he said to me that is Mod look I am doing, after I came Mod, I start to see more people dress up like Mod like me, so we start to hang out, I great memories of Mod Subcultural in Durham Region Ontario, Canada, Toronto Ontario Canada too. I think it amaze Documentary. I always did wear Blower hat, pair of Dr. Martens, Loafers, Desert boots, Mod Suites I wear, Mod shirts.
Remember it well ,use to make a week of it ,the beer went up by the hour that's what started it ,bad manners topped the bill ,police got heavy handed , if I recall rightly the dribble put all their bikes at the front of the ferry and a wave knocked them all over ,,,,,,,,,,,,,Stockport crusaders
@@DS-_JOCK Bad Manners and Desmond Decker ? Flooded tent and the first real sign my best mate had a very real mental health issue that would end in tragedy. RIP Gary.
If only lambrettas to ride....if 10,000 decided to go, only 5,000 would turn up. Atleast without sat nav you could just follow the broken down lambrettas, if you dont see one in 30 mins - your going the wrong way !!
How time flies... Great to look back on the days prior to the ridiculous psyche/hippy influx, and of course the god awful comedy mod! The Saturday afternoon at the Brighton August bank holiday rally is like a weird freak show now, and even though I live in Brighton, I can't bring myself to go down, as it's a dreadful shadow of its former self.
I went my to a mod rally on the Isle of White in the mid 90s. Different crowd then. There was a lot of trouble with Skinheads on an August Bank Holiday in 1986 so the police never liked scooterboys there after that. They saw them as all the same
I,o,w scooter rallies in the mid 8ts ,top top times , never to be forgotten, try telling that to the yoof of today , my kids still don't belive what we got up to ,
WHAT TIMES THEY HAD ARE THOSE MODS STILL ALIVE? LOVE TO GO BACK IN TIME IM 61 STILL A MOD WAS IN 1979 AND 2023 STILL GOING I THINJK ALL MOD S SHOULD GET TOGETHER CLASS NEW MOD BANDS LIKE THE SPITFIRES/BLOCK 33 ANY MODS READING THIS CONTACT ME ALL THE MODS !!!!
I look back at my youth when I was a mod/scooterist and it was a total waste of time as I should have known who I was as an individual without having to follow other people!
@@thomasbeattie2257 oh i'm much better for it now - i've actually got a mind of my own!! It wasn't easy though. It took me over 30 years to realise I had one!
@@vespasuper150 better parenting would have meant I was doing something that would benefit my life and not waste it, we only live once and youthful times should be treasured and spent wisely and so there's no regret. Least I've grown out of scooters and matured in mind than stuck in the past. It's crazy these people just wanting to relive their youths but the reality is they've all grown up. Old men on scooters pretending to be 17!!
You again! Bought a Vespa Rally 200 bored out to 208 stage 3 tuned from a fellow despatch rider ( Kev Roach) happily doing 75mph in the rain wearing an ever shrinking tonic suit on the way back from Clacton. Won't tell you about the shotgun incident when we stopped off for a pitstop, but made it all the way home. Realised I had no milk so popped out around the corner and spilled it at 30 mph. Who are you?
I was the best dressed mod n didn't have a scooter to me it was the fashion n i was coming off the back of the casino when mod revival kicked in 19 80 so the music was more or less unchanged, obviously there was the 2tone newish stuff was all good though ✌️💚😈🇬🇧
I was an ex Met police officer when they had the scooter come to the island I was also a publican , police came to my pub and told me to ban the scooters/mods , I declined and had a group of 16 come to the pub, they asked if they could put some tables together so they could sit together with their mates and we agreed they all had a meal and then offered to assist in clearing the tables , after a few pints I asked where they intended to stay overnight and they were going to camp in Gurnard, however the Police had two motor bikes just down the road hiding out of view waiting for them to leave so I suggested that they used the pubs back garden to camp in, they accepted and they settled down to a drinking session after setting up their tents, by about 10 pm they had decided it was time for bed and went to their tents, I left it until 11.30 pm when i started to take my dog for a walk before I told the police that they were wasting their time waiting for the mods ! next day we did them a breakfast and they wash up, cleared their tents and left the garden clean and tidy, it was an absolute pleasure to have their custom and they returned in subsequent years, never any problem , genuinely nice lads
how very public spirited of you jeeves ,who gives a fuck should of put them in the back of van and cut their legs off
Good on you mate.
You sir, are a gentleman. Thank you.
I was a mod and then a Met officer. Made me smile
Not all mods are sods
am a rocker from the 60s great to see young mods having fun times now lost in 2022 great video
Few of you riding through near the final minutes of this, agree no need to encourage bad blood
Some great comments. The documentary stands on its own two feet. Well selected interviews and general footage, you feel you've hopped back 40 years. The ruddiness of the cross section of scooterists is priceless.
🎯
Yes.
Wow. If there was ever a video that made me want to relive my youth, this is it. I miss this 😍
What a beautiful archive and film thanks for sharing.
Hearing that lad talk about the handling of Vespa Vs Lambretta reminds me of pilots talking about the Spitfire Vs Hurricane.
Was a mod in the mid sixties. Lambretta Li 150, was going to trade it in for an SX200 but a week before I went head on into a Standard Vanguard luckily went over the car and landed on my backside, no crash helmet just a badly cut leg. No SX200. After 56 years still have my parka with the Lambretta badges. Great times.
I went back in 1983 and 1984' rode all the way from Worcester to Southampton ferry terminal, Had a fantastic time there on the island and the locals were great to us, shal never forget that sight of over 10,000+ scooters approaching the Ryde campsite, Absolutely awesome time of our scootering youth, 💯👌, ✊PATCH✊
I was never a MOD or a Rocker during the 60`s I just did my own thing and dressed how I felt comfortable, since several of my mates had been killed on motorcycles my father taught me to drive and we shared an Austin A 35 which I had the use of at weekends , So whilst I was more of a Rocker i would have looked stupid in motorcycle kit in a car , I also had friends and enemies in both camps so going to dances etc was somewhat interesting, in the fullness of time i completed my apprenticeship and then decided to become a Police Officer but since I had had several unhappy meetings with the Hampshire Constabulary I joined the Met. which really suited my attitude to people , so when i left the Job I had more understanding of people and could empathise with them wanting to enjoy themselves without being banned from this and that for no reason. Hence why I was happy to welcome them into my pub , they returned on several later visits to the Island and never ever caused me any trouble
The club where they are in this was my dads nightclub. He was over the moon they turned up. It helped keep the club solvent that year. Thanks IOW council.
Is that the old Brooke house?
Not so much a mod scene now but all kinds of scooterists still come here in their thousands in August.
Love this, catches the time perfectly.....misty eyed memories....."Starting Wednesday" my days...
Brilliant video. Ex scoter boy personality & what brilliant times we had. No phones & no social media.
I cant believe how people smoked back then. Almost a like a fashion accessory.
I still have a GS160 but also an Aprilia Tuono - Italian style. I ride the scooter on my own as the great days of '79/'80's are long gone. Subjectively nothing worse than seeing plump 55+ comedy mods on Modenas, Scomadis and the like wearing shoddy replica parkas covered in a selection of trashy badges. Still love the original lifestyle and the music though.
Was this rally at Ryde, IOW? If so, I was there. Great memories. I was one of the Essex mob (Gregg) and I travelled down in the back of Tony Class’s van (RIP fella) and remember hiding under a blanket with my mates (two Toby’s, Deano, Dave Rowley) to bunk the ferry. So many characters back then: Gamba, Dom, Gary the Brummy, Tony S, ‘Check it Out’ John, the Maidstone crew (Craig, Lee, ‘Two Bob’ Rob), Justina (whom I had a huge crush on) and the really creepy Mark Johnson. I remember Ian Jackson bouncing around behind the decks spinning amazing and rare tunes. I was a regular at The Biz and Sneakers and played a couple of gigs at Joolz in Edgware Road with my band Almost Grown. Still got my CCI and Sneakers membership cards in a shoebox somewhere and still wear a lot of the clobber. Wish I was eighteen again and re-living those days.
@Twisted Fister Yeah, that would be a lovely ending, wunnit?
Great video of people wanting too enjoy themselves lovely scooters fun times amazing
That was a great docu and I didn't want it to end.
It opened my eyes or should i say ears to the fact that the music being played was in certain ways very Northern soul which suprised me.
Is there a tracklust/list as there were some right stompers?! Ps i was 13 in 86 and heavily into Hip Hop, electro and breakin, plus was into James brown.
We had our own scene and the clothing was bomber jackets with RUN DMC and Public Enemy patches (safety pinned not sewn on as it was a cooler look!! ) and spray painted trainers with fat laces.
The acid house scene really pulled together all scenes and you'd invariably dancing on pills with mods, rockers, metallers, punks, casuals, hells angels. You name it!
1980s and early 90s was a great time to be completely honest ❤
As a kid 84 to 87 my parents and grandparents owned Windermere guest house 3 Victoria road Sandown. Three doors from library. My age 7 left at 11, loved the scooter rally coming through so friendly to us local kids. And that smell of two stroke...
Great documentary. So positive
there in 87 .... Great tunes an great people .... Hope your all well ....Tony and his crew were well cool .... Thank you
So cool to see so many young people on the scooter rally I got a scooter in 97 and there was a bit of revival with the indie scene .it would be great to see the next revival on youth coming through to keep the scene alive.
I’m 19 and had a scooter for a few years, trying to get my mates to get them too haha
Who else Keeping the spirit alive in 2020! KTF
Me
@@TheShayster7 top lad 👍🏻
Coasters SC going strong!
Just bought an m51 parka
Me 2022
In my mid fifties now still have 2 Lambrettas a 64 LI and 70 GP my first rally IoW 83 and spent my 21st Birthday at IoW rally brilliant times
superb stuff, loved this, went to I,O,W in the 90,s two,s up, me pillion, broke down at Telford and A,A took us rest of way to portsmouth ferry port, us fae Scotland.
''Inky'' from Irvine and big Paul O'Neill coming out of the taxi with Lorraine Glasgow Mods, know them very very well, great memories from a great time in our youth, ahhhh the power of cool nostalgia!!!
Paul O’Neill looks familiar… from school days in the 80´s. Did he have a Vespa 150 Super that got nicked?
I recognised Paul but had to take a double take, it is scary to think haw long ago that was.
Me and my mates did the 1986 mod rally brilliant weekend I've been a mod since 1979 I owned my first scooter in 1977 a 1966 li150series 3 mod for life you the best style ever
So much style , they look awesome and the scooters are smart also
I'm in my 60s now and in my time have been a Mod, a Skinhead, hung with bikers including Hell's Angels etc. There was some trouble between gangs and also the odd bit of *bashing, something I now deeply regret.
I'm certain that having those groups gave us an opportunity to belong, it gave us identity. What is there now? Postcode gangs stabbing each other... otherwise it's join the narcissistic 'influencers' on some crap social platform.
We had it good!
Looking at this video just proves how much worse it is today with social media etc. I was a biker in late 70's and early 80's and never had with the Mods. I even gave one a lift home on my Suzuki GS750 blasting down the A4 at midnight at 120 one night as his scooter had broken down. I did like their clothes..very cool look.
I left the scene in 84 bought an evil motorcycle and mooched around this sceptred isle until by 87 I'd let love reign o'er me and I settled down. But the the love of the music, the sense of style in the clothes they stayed in my DNA which was passed on to my boys but sadly not to my girls their taste in music is utter wank.
My condolences on their music taste. That being said though, people's taste in music can and does often change with age...
Looks good
Good scene
Great music
Amazing styles
Great days , never to be seen again,so sad really
I had a great weekend. I was only 15. I've seen myself a couple of times in this video and a few of me old mates. Great memories.
4.54 minutes in. Me on the left, Andy shill with back to camera and Toby Ryan on the right.
Brilliant top mods from the past but take a good look at the isle of wight scooter rally today its full of 40 stone black T shirted oil barrels on bad scooters Great vidio. Thanks mac the mod BCFC 1875 .
Can't believe how old class is i new him when he was a lot younger. When i was younger too.
No fake tans, bolt-on tit, Daffy Duck lips, tattoos or mobile phone obsession. It was also an era when there still was youth culture, unlike today where the scene has been stale and static for the best part of 20 years.
The girls back then were so much better looking than now
Is the bouncer behind Tony Class at 26:39 Garry Wills of Palance farm Northwood, Cowes?
Certainly looks like him to me.
Small world, Isle of Wight.
Russ.
Brilliant music, too!
MODS have always..and will ALWAYS be the absolute BEST scooter club ti belong to!😎👍👊..respect..👊🤝❤
Terrific music as well in the video.
Great video and still riding a lambretta after 40 years with stabilisers on lol
I have been in Scene in 80s when I was teenager. I like this Documentary lot. Mod Scene start in Ontario Canada like Toronto, Durham Region, more places in Ontario Canada, more places in Canada. I have been in London, UK. I am still Mod.
I loved riding my scooters back in the 80ts both Vespas and a Lambretta
agree...loved riding my vespa's but hated my lambretta gp200 (unreliable pile of junk) never got another one.
I was leader of The Outcrowd scooter mob in Liverpool in early 70s this brings back those happy days !!!
I was there. Amazing times
They were no trouble at all. I live in Bournemouth and they used to have Phoenix rallies there, trouble was train loads of Skinheads and football hooligans used to come down sometimes from London and disrupt the rallies and make their lives hell for the weekend and I'm afraid they were no match for them. That's why the rallies had a reputation for trouble.
God we were good looking back then lol.
Hi! Crunchomatic. I never been to Birmingham before Only some place in UK like Winsor Castle, Stonehenge, Bath, London, UK. Where I live I am Region Mod in 80s - 1994. I didn't own Mod Scooters at all but my Mod friends did have Mod Scooters. I still dress up Mod. How I got in Mod fashion, I start dress up Mod, looking at old Pictures of The Who, lot more Mod bands how they dress up like movie Quadrophenia, I listen what Mods listen, I meet up with my Uncle, he said to me that is Mod look I am doing, after I came Mod, I start to see more people dress up like Mod like me, so we start to hang out, I great memories of Mod Subcultural in Durham Region Ontario, Canada, Toronto Ontario Canada too. I think it amaze Documentary. I always did wear Blower hat, pair of Dr. Martens, Loafers, Desert boots, Mod Suites I wear, Mod shirts.
no scooter. then NO COMMENT
LIVE TO RIDE
Seeing all those mods reminds me why I became a scooter boy 😀
Bet you where missed 😎..
Remember Isle Wight scooter rally mid 80s when the beer tent got raided and burnt down.
Can't remember exactly year but got soaked.
Happy days
Remember it well ,use to make a week of it ,the beer went up by the hour that's what started it ,bad manners topped the bill ,police got heavy handed , if I recall rightly the dribble put all their bikes at the front of the ferry and a wave knocked them all over ,,,,,,,,,,,,,Stockport crusaders
Was 1986
Yep. I was there. The Fire Brigade were called. I came off my Vespa in the mud and had to source a new headlight on site.
@@DS-_JOCK Bad Manners and Desmond Decker ? Flooded tent and the first real sign my best mate had a very real mental health issue that would end in tragedy. RIP Gary.
Living for today...
Mods' spirits are still in the world. believe it
Scooter Froods! Got to love them old scooters.
nice insight /doc....
(and scooters ..of course)
More power than a vespa. Really !!!
I'm a biker but love scoots , done up loads vespas lambs and a triumph Tina ,
great memories
He may not like Vespa's but if it wasn't for them-the scooter rally scene from 79-84 wouldn't have been anything like it was and thats a fact!
If only lambrettas to ride....if 10,000 decided to go, only 5,000 would turn up. Atleast without sat nav you could just follow the broken down lambrettas, if you dont see one in 30 mins - your going the wrong way !!
the last few minutes where we see proper motorcycles - that's Brighton innit ?? i swear that's Brighton
Looks like it yeah
How time flies...
Great to look back on the days prior to the ridiculous psyche/hippy influx, and of course the god awful comedy mod! The Saturday afternoon at the Brighton August bank holiday rally is like a weird freak show now, and even though I live in Brighton, I can't bring myself to go down, as it's a dreadful shadow of its former self.
great quality
I went my to a mod rally on the Isle of White in the mid 90s. Different crowd then. There was a lot of trouble with Skinheads on an August Bank Holiday in 1986 so the police never liked scooterboys there after that. They saw them as all the same
I remember someone said when when we are older they will want us there and low and behold we are older and they hold there arms open too us now.
Take me back to when we were cool
Bloke from approx 4:17 til 5:00... anyone know him? He looks weirdly familiar...
Derek Askil, owns disco dez scooters
3:11 "now worth aprox. two to three hundred pounds..." Fast forward to 2019 and you'd get a pair of spot lights. smh...
I,o,w scooter rallies in the mid 8ts ,top top times , never to be forgotten, try telling that to the yoof of today , my kids still don't belive what we got up to ,
Enjoyed the upload thanks and keep the faith..from old time Trojan skin...
fookin nice
This looks like the late 80s. The mod revival was over by late 1982, Die hard’s
Great Video
looks more like 1978-1983 at the latest to me?? oh ! just seen a 87/88 E plate sierra !!
Love a good rally. Rockers all the way!
I ride my Vespa for nine years in London still smell the sweet ,,,,,,,good memo
Thought the Mod scene had totally waned by 84. I was wrong
im not a mod i like some of the music but i do own a 63 Li all original with a few bruises and dents but it rides well for its age with no upgrades.
hope you still ride your scooter,
.X. stay well ( one year on...)
I think after the IOW riot in 86 the council changed their opinion on the scooter scene
no helmet law in Florida, I don't wear one and i can hear what is going on around me while driving my Rocket III
Yeah , but you can't split lanes so you may as well just drive a jeep
What's the name of that opening song, who's it by! I need to know, it's soooo good.
Esk8 Jaimes Darrow Fletcher - My Young Misery
Be good to see what there all doing now
Probably still wearing skinny clothes with big fat beer guts hanging out and covered in tattoos
There all in their 50s and living in Surbiton.
*'It's about Belonging'* _Respect to all Sub Cultures - Rejoice in thy Youth Oh young man and woman!_
Brill vid ! ;)
Surely this is early 80s
Look. No body use instagram for insta story
WHAT TIMES THEY HAD ARE THOSE MODS STILL ALIVE? LOVE TO GO BACK IN TIME IM 61 STILL A MOD WAS IN 1979 AND 2023 STILL GOING I THINJK ALL MOD S SHOULD GET TOGETHER CLASS NEW MOD BANDS LIKE THE SPITFIRES/BLOCK 33 ANY MODS READING THIS CONTACT ME ALL THE MODS !!!!
Brilliant
The council was terrified of them at the time: you'd have thought the Russians were coming.
I look back at my youth when I was a mod/scooterist and it was a total waste of time as I should have known who I was as an individual without having to follow other people!
What a sad man !
@@thomasbeattie2257 oh i'm much better for it now - i've actually got a mind of my own!! It wasn't easy though. It took me over 30 years to realise I had one!
if you were not enjoying it at any point, you could stop at anytime. It was better than sitting indoor's with your parents watching the tv....lol
@@vespasuper150 better parenting would have meant I was doing something that would benefit my life and not waste it, we only live once and youthful times should be treasured and spent wisely and so there's no regret. Least I've grown out of scooters and matured in mind than stuck in the past. It's crazy these people just wanting to relive their youths but the reality is they've all grown up. Old men on scooters pretending to be 17!!
Some fine ladies in this !
The only way a Vespa Rally would do 75 mph is over a cliff-why do people bullshit over top speeds of standard scooters?
cos they can
You again! Bought a Vespa Rally 200 bored out to 208 stage 3 tuned from a fellow despatch rider ( Kev Roach) happily doing 75mph in the rain wearing an ever shrinking tonic suit on the way back from Clacton. Won't tell you about the shotgun incident when we stopped off for a pitstop, but made it all the way home. Realised I had no milk so popped out around the corner and spilled it at 30 mph. Who are you?
It'll easily do 75
75kph
there you go....just and stare in this and figure out how I own a new scooters
So ashamed to say that I had a scooter a cut down though but still embarrassed I am now a biker of 30 years
Happy Days...
I was the best dressed mod n didn't have a scooter to me it was the fashion n i was coming off the back of the casino when mod revival kicked in 19 80 so the music was more or less unchanged, obviously there was the 2tone newish stuff was all good though ✌️💚😈🇬🇧
How can that prick call Vespa's ugly-OI TOSSER!! HAVE YOU LOOKED IN THE MIRROR LATELY???
Oi Oi to our mod cousins, much love to you all! KTF!
Look at all those parkas
80-90s we’re the purist- no comedy mods with stupid embarrassing scooters with targets- 1998 seeing The Action- wow
I AM A MOD-UAL. MOD FIRST THEN CASUAL THEN MOD AGAIN AND NOW A MODUAL.
The lammies vespas parkas two tone suits the music happy days