Mod to Suedehead

[covskin]

This is scooterboy

 

[andyf]

This is scooterboy

Scooterboys from different points of the 80s

 

[Natty Pinstripe]

Not good eh.

Not good and not to be forgotten either.

 

[pressuredrop]

Well back then it was usually rubberised over trousers and jackets. Any colour ( mine wer bright yellow!). The odd leather jacket even. But as I say it was totally horrible rubberised cotton and usually 2 piece. So you felt wet from the sweat and the rain that had seeped through. Very impractical.
If you mean what pants (trousers) it was nearly always German army moleskins in olive green or jeans underneath.

Yeah, pants = trousers over here.

 

[benj84]

Scooterboys from different points of the 80s

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[andyf]

Not good and not to be forgotten either.

Not a great time at all. I knew the odd nf type. Kept my distance from them.
Someone a bit younger asked if I wanted to join BM and didn’t understand why I kept saying no.

 

[andyf]

Yeah, pants = trousers over here.

I know. We’ve just come back from Orlando and when I mentioned “pants” to my 7 year old son he found it most amusing.

 

[Bela Kun]

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Great pics. Have I not been paying attention, or is scooterboy a somewhat under-documented subculture?

I know a couple of 80s scooterboys and have been asking them to write up a history for our blog, but they both seemed reluctant and unsure if they knew enough. There's no shortage of detail you can ask them about Vespas, Scootering magazine, maybe even historical scooter runs... but when it comes to the subculture itself (the origins, the clothes, the music, etc) it all gets a bit patchy.

 

[Bela Kun]

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Did some of the fellas in the first pic double as skins, or were they strictly scooterboys not skins?

 

[The Saint]

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Nice one , Andy . Look very typical from what l can remember ,there was always congregating at some damn good bar and you can even see a guy with one of those flying jaikets l mentioned earlier (in the second photo ) , l think they had been popularised by someone in U2 or maybe it was Teardrop Explodes not sure now , it was a while ago. .

 

[Man-of-Mystery]

There will come a point, friends, when the 'punk-to-scooterboy' discussion will lose its connection to 'mod to suedehead'. I'm not saying stop, because you're keeping the thread alive. I'm just saying be aware.

 

[andyf]

Great pics. Have I not been paying attention, or is scooterboy a somewhat under-documented subculture?

I know a couple of 80s scooterboys and have been asking them to write up a history for our blog, but they both seemed reluctant and unsure if they knew enough. There's no shortage of detail you can ask them about Vespas, Scootering magazine, maybe even historical scooter runs... but when it comes to the subculture itself (the origins, the clothes, the music, etc) it all gets a bit patchy.

They can’t remember because it was generally a mass piss up

 

[andyf]

Did some of the fellas in the first pic double as skins, or were they strictly scooterboys not skins?

Photo said 79-80. Lot of of mixed up youth then hadn’t quite the difference between mod, skin and or they had been originally. Most scooterists started life as one or the other or both like moi.

 

[Bela Kun]

They can’t remember because it was generally a mass piss up

Yeah, maybe it was more of an 'action-oriented' rather than style-oriented subculture. Then again, casuals were also 'action-oriented' but tend to remember every detail.

Scooterboy also strikes me as not that self-conscious - unlike skinhead, which is extremely self-conscious. Maybe that's one reason for lack of documentation.

 

[Bela Kun]

Photo said 79-80. Lot of of mixed up youth then hadn’t quite the difference between mod, skin and or they had been originally. Most scooterists started life as one or the other or both like moi.

So if you asked the guy with the parka or the one wearing the flight jacket in the background "are you a skin", would they have said yes or no?