How do you become a mod?

[Screamadelica]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Haha! You weren't the scriptwriter on Quadrophenia by any chance?

'you killed me * scooter, you * killed it!' etc!

But Lesley Ash wasn't half nice back then!

Well spotted Dutch! Right on the money. And Leslie Ash was pretty damn nice, agreed!
With all the pictures of these bikes around it reminds me of the time I was pulled up at a set of lights on my Vespa, all suited and booted, parka, etc. I was suddenly surrounded by about 20 or 30 bikers on Harley Davidsons in club colours. The biker next to me looked over, and I got ready to go full throttle, but all he said was "nice bike", to which I replied " Thanks, yours too ". Lights went green and I took off and I was actually ahead of the pack for about 2 seconds till they raced past. Ahh, memories ...

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by Screamadelica

Well spotted Dutch! Right on the money. And Leslie Ash was pretty damn nice, agreed!
With all the pictures of these bikes around it reminds me of the time I was pulled up at a set of lights on my Vespa, all suited and booted, parka, etc. I was suddenly surrounded by about 20 or 30 bikers on Harley Davidsons in club colours. The biker next to me looked over, and I got ready to go full throttle, but all he said was "nice bike", to which I replied " Thanks, yours too ". Lights went green and I took off and I was actually ahead of the pack for about 2 seconds till they raced past. Ahh, memories ...

Yeah, great memories. I was a bit of a hybrid, in that I dressed like a mod in the late 70's/early 80's, but rode motorbikes and listened to mostly heavy rock and blues music. I used to get some funny looks from the denim/leather clad longhairs when I was headbanging to Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Freebird' in my two-tone box jacket and skinny tie. Then when they saw me on my Z650 and in leather from head to toe they got even more confused. Great fun.

Quadrophenia is a classic Who? album though, film is ok, but the album is just superb.