The group of mainly school mates I used to hang out with, and go on weekend burn-ups with, mostly had Lambrettas, with a solitary and much derided Vespa Sportique (mine!), and luckily a 125cc BSA Bantam motor bike which could be relied on to bring up the rear, especially given that its rider was a little on the plump side!
Apart from the mixed nature of the group's hardware, we probably considered aligning ourselves with anything as common as Mods or Rockers to be somewhat beneath us, although that didn't stop the scooter riders all sporting parkas, which in my case had the logo 'Vespa SS' carefully painted on the back in white Dulux (made me feel better, but didn't make the scooter go any faster unfortunately!)
Friday night was a regular outing to the 58 Club at Winchelsea Beach, where for 10p you got entrance plus a shepherds pie (
) - this was washed down with plenty of beer which helped keep the cold out for the drive back to Hastings, which needless to say involved taking even more risks trying to keep up than the outward journey did.
On reflection, at that time I was probably concentrating more on staying alive than trying to impress the girls!