Scooterboy

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A Scooterboy (or Scooter boy ) ( English Scooter "motor scooter" and boy "boy") is a member of a scooter - affine subculture in Great Britain in the late 1970s, i. H. the rude boys , mods and skinheads .

With Scooter Boys also scooter enthusiasts are sometimes referred to generally include the groups not to the three aforementioned.

Definitions

Hard Mods as an intermediate step from Mod to Skinhead

Michael Brake identifies the subculture differently. He sees them as a subgroup of the mods , which he divides into art school mods , mainstream mods and hard mods . According to Brake, scooter boys own Italian scooters, i. H. "A so-called 'sports car' of the working class , packed in accessories and anoraks and wide jeans". According to Kayleen Hazlehurst, the scooter boy with anorak, accessory-hung scooter and industrial worker boots was a transition between the mods and the skinheads during the late 1960s to the early 1970s.

Multiple creation model

According to Gaz Kishere, they developed the Scooterboys out of a strong New Mod monotony of the late 1970s Mod revival , created by a renewed interest in scooters and travel to scooter races. It connected people from different youth subcultures , such as punks or psychobillys or others who were new to the scooter scene and were looking for their own subcultural identity. The birth of the Scooterboys was also a reason for those in the New Mod scene who only showed a brief interest in the scooter to withdraw from the changed scene.

Differentiated observations

The author Mick Middles discovers in the Scooterboys with bomber jackets and Dr. Martens Scooterboys boots of the late 1970s, another scooter revival with a modified appearance. He describes the Lambretta boom from 1968 to 1973 as follows: “Huge groups of scooter boys fled the big cities of Lancashire every Sunday ... they dodged the faster, dirtier motorcycle greasers and met in the nearby ones Blackpool and Southport seaside resorts . These were the days of Crombie Coats and Two-Tone , tonic pants , brogues ... and Baranthea - blazers , smartness , neatness, in clothes like music ”.

He characterized the late 1970s revival as "something of a peculiarity" in which the scooter owners were "more interested in their machines - the mechanics, the practical use - than in their appearance".

Rally visitors

According to Colin Shattuck and Eric Peterson's description, a scooter boy is more like “one who goes on scooter runs and collects the event patches on an item of clothing. Usually this is a bomber jacket , but it can also be a different type of jacket, a mechanic jacket, a motorcycle jacket or a parka . ”Brown describes the Mod scooter rallies in 1980 as a regional meeting on a` pirate`-run basis. In 1981 the meetings became national, also through the organization of the LCGB (Lambretta Club of Great Britain). In 1982 Martin Dixon of Scarborough, the editor of Scootermania a fanzine, founded the National Run Committee. At the meeting of this committee, delegates from all clubs met to democratically agree on the dates for the year. In 1982, 1000 Mod revivalists met at Easter in Hastings, Sussex for a mod run, while 3000 Scooterboys traveled to Scarborough, Yorkshire for an LCGB scooter rally.

Scooterboys in Germany

At the end of the 1980s the trend spilled over to Germany. The first scooter runs took place in 1987, e.g. B. Easter in Hamburg. Back then as day events. From 1988 onwards, weekend-long scooter runs with the option of tents followed. In 1989 the scene in Germany was so big that Stern dedicated a 12-page article to this youth movement. There were also articles in Bravo and Bravo-Girl. The scooter scene even had a photo love novel in the Bravo Girl for the content "Susi der Cliquen-Schreck".

The scene is characterized by the fact that the repair and modification of the scooter (up to competitive full conversions, so-called "custom scooters") occupies an important place. The scene meets on various occasions; that can include joint trips, scooter runs (weekend events), scooter rallies (one-day events), soul weekenders and the "roll-on" and "roll-off" (short trips at the beginning and end of the season) that are now common in some regions.

The external appearance of a typical scooter boy or scooterist consists of outfitting with motorcycle clothing, often a jeans or leather vest that is embroidered with the club logo and / or run patches.

Scooter runs in Germany

A scooter run does not refer to a scooter race, as is often wrongly translated, but a typical event with a complete accompanying program. "Run" originally means the approach of the participants to a meeting point. However, it has become a term for a weekend event; The typical process is that a group (such as a scooter club or other interest group) leases a location (barbecue area or a piece of field) for a weekend and uses common channels (by post, by flyer, on the Internet) invites the scene to the event. Usually the infrastructure of the event consists of a demarcated area, a marquee, portable toilets and a grill stall.

The program begins with the possible arrival of the participants from Friday evening and a music program (either in the marquee or in a local bar / pub). The main part of the event takes place on Saturday. During the day there are often stands of scooter parts dealers on the Rungelände. The entertainment program often includes group tours in the area (so-called roller corso), custom shows (in which heavily rebuilt and redesigned Vespas are presented and awarded) and "fun games" (mostly drinking games). The invited DJs start their sets in the beer tent in the early evening. Northern Soul, Ska, Oi are usually preferred. The next day the event ends with breakfast, the dismantling of the tents and the departure of the participants by the afternoon. "Run patches" are also mostly sold on Scooter Runs, which are embroidered or printed pieces of fabric with a motif and the place / date of the event. They are sewn onto the outer clothing (jacket / vest) and serve as a mutual recognition feature for the scooter boys that they belong to the scene and that they have taken part in the events.

See also

Technical literature and sources

  • Gareth Brown: Scooter Boys . GB Publications, 1989.
  • Michael Brake: Comparative youth culture: the sociology of youth cultures and youth subcultures in America, Britain, and Canada . Routledge, 1990, ISBN 0-415-05108-8 .
  • Kayleen M. Hazlehurst, Cameron Hazlehurst: Gangs and youth subcultures: international explorations . Transaction Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-56000-363-4 .
  • Mick Middles: The rise and fall of The Stone Roses: breaking into heaven . Omnibus, 1999, ISBN 0-7119-7546-9 .
  • David Muggleton: Inside subculture: the postmodern meaning of style . Berg, 2000, ISBN 1-85973-352-2 .
  • Colin Shattuck, Eric Peterson: Scooters: Red Eyes Whitewalls and Blue Smoke . Speck Press, 2005, ISBN 0-9725776-3-7 .
  • David Einsiedler: Relationship boxes, sheet metal and switch scooters with their drivers . AD-EINS GmbH, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020668-9 .
  • Ian "Iggy" Grainger: Scooter Lifestyle . Veloce Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84584-152-2 , Scooter Boys Through the 1980s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Colin Shattuck, Eric Peterson: Scooters: Red Eyes Whitewalls and Blue Smoke. Speck Press, 2005, ISBN 0-9725776-3-7 , pp. 87.88.
  2. ↑ Michael Brake: Comparative youth culture: the sociology of youth cultures and youth subcultures in America, Britain, and Canada. Routledge, 1990, ISBN 0-415-05108-8 , p. 75.
  3. ↑ Kayleen M. Hazlehurst, Cameron Hazlehurst: Gangs and youth subcultures: international explorations. Transaction Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-56000-363-4 , p. 44.
  4. ↑ Kayleen M. Hazlehurst, Cameron Hazlehurst: Gangs and youth subcultures: international explorations. Transaction Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1-56000-363-4 , p. 44.
  5. ↑ David Muggleton: Inside subculture: the postmodern meaning of style. Berg, 2000, ISBN 1-85973-352-2 , p. 164.
  6. ↑ Mick Middles: The rise and fall of The Stone Roses: breaking into heaven . Omnibus, 1999, ISBN 0-7119-7546-9 .
  7. ^ Colin Shattuck, Eric Peterson: Scooters: Red Eyes Whitewalls and Blue Smoke. Speck Press, 2005, ISBN 0-9725776-3-7 , pp. 87.88.
  8. ^ Gareth Brown: Scooter Boys. GB Publications, 1989, pp. 49,51,53.
  9. ↑ star. 26/1989, pp. 28-40.
  10. ↑ star. 26/1989, pp. 28-40.
  11. ↑ star. 26/1989, pp. 28-40.
  12. ↑ star. 26/1989, pp. 28-40.
  13. ↑ star. 26/1989, pp. 28-40.
  14. ↑ star. 26/1989, pp. 28-40.