Originally Posted by Skyryder
It was a joy to read this thread again. There is an interesting aside to this. The cowboy era virtually ended at the start of the new decade in the sixties. Beatlemania and the Carnaby Streets look was about to revolutionize the younger generation. The two wheeled world was divided between the Mods some of whom rode scooters(did not realy get a foot hold here) and the Rockers.
This was the first division of the youth from the Rock'n'Roll geneation. This is a significant divide that has not been touched on by modern historians.
Essentiall it divided those from Rock'n' Roll from the Mersy sound. Rockers were still into the American music Mods had evolved their own sound and fashion from Carnaby and Mary Quant. If they rode it was a scooter and mostl likely be a Vespa
The so called Hippy movement was pure American and found it's birthplace in the Haight Ashby district of San Fransisco. It was at about this time that the Hells Angell were getting media attention and the bikie gangs were forming. There must have been a small Auckland chapter as some of us were asked to join.
Whether they were afiliated to the American chapter's I don't know but the guy who wanted us to join name was Mark ????.
I stopped riding at about this time so have little knowledge of the NZ biker culture from that time onwards.
Skyryder
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