Scootering

We’re all good friends now…

It was back in 1964 that the whole Mods and Rockers ‘thing’ started. The clean and the dirty became sworn enemies and the main battlegrounds became the south coast beaches although the pubs, streets and alleyways of any UK city or town had its own small skirmishes.

In the 1979 revival times those battles and rivalries reappeared. Even in sleepy old Grantham there was a Hells Angels incident where a shotgun was drawn from a motorbike sidecar, and

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