Product Description

Gareth Brown was centre stage in the rebirth of one of Britain's longest surviving youth cultures. The Daily Mail re-issue of Gareth Brown's youth culture classic which presents and analyses scooter culture from its birth in the 1960s through its revival in the 1970s and again in the 1990s.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #876506 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 130 pages

From the Publisher
1.This is the definitive pictoral book on scooter boys and has been the subject of several TV documentaries and photography exhibitions since its initial publication back in the early-90s. Scootering Magazine will be featuring the book in a major serialisation and its re-issue is widely anticipated within the wider scootering community.

2. ‘Gareth Brown was centre stage in the rebirth of one of Britain’s longest surviving youth cultures. This book is the definitive story of that phenomenon.’ The Daily Mail

3. Having been out of stock for some time, there is a pent-up demand for this title within the wider scootering and subculture public. Reviews on Amazon reflect this such as Robin Quartermain who says, ‘Full of facts and figures, photo's from the authors own collection, and many many stories from his experiences in the UK and Europe. Definitive.’

About the Author
Gareth Brown has owned and ridden Italian motor scooters and been an active cult scooterist on the roads of Europe since 1978. He was the first true scooter-riding editor of Scootering magazine and has had over one thousand articles published on the scootering movement. A graduate of social history, Gareth also lectures regularly on the phneomena of youth culture, and is widely regarded as the world-leading authority on lifestyle scooter culture.

Customer Reviews

Misplaced youth and beyond
Yet another edition hits the streets! A good companion to Richard Barnes Mods! book, giving a piece of youth culture a place in history. Scooter rallies still take place today but the fighting and front page headlines have disappeared.
Chelmsford Scooter Club (Gareth's home town) put on two of the biggest scooter rallies at Pontin's holiday centre's! A far cry from local council's banning them in the 80's.
Scooter culture is still alive and kicking and the average age gets older.

A book that covers an era of the UK's number one youth cult
This book is written with rose tinted glasses, but make no bones about it it tells the story of a cult that started in the late 1970's and is still going strong today. Scooters were cheap to buy, no CBT to pass, just insurance, MOT and a provisional licence (or in some cases none of the above). It got a generation mobile and away from their drab towns and cities for a weekend of mayhem on the coast. The had never been a youth culture like this before and there will never be one like it again. Today's youth on the whole have no get up and go, they would rather dress like kids from America and listen to their music rather than creating a cult of their own, something that seems to mirror the country today. Full of facts and figures, photo's from the authors own collection, and many many stories from his experiences in the UK and Europe.