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If the occasion ever happens that you are in the back woods of now where land and you are out of two-stroke oil and a seller of the stuff is no where to be seen for miles.”DO NOT RIDE IT MILES“or you will be pushing it a lot more than the miles you rode with [...]
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Indeed the concepts of motion, action, and speed that were inherent in the paintings and designs of the early decade were quite closely mirrored by the modernist culture. London’s Situationists particularly attempted to redefine the contents of the canvas not as pictures but as events and the recording of a [...]
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Does it make any sense to associate mod culture–ostensibly known as a working-class ethic with strong emphasis on the materialistic- with the elitist and cultured atmosphere that the word “art” usually brings to mind? Direct connections might exist or have existed: ex-art school types who are/were [...]
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Powder coating your scooter? Here are my top five tips….
1. Firstly, if your panels are dented get the blemishes leadfilled, not bogged (fibreglass bog falls off in the ovens).
2. Strip the frame down to the skeleton, this includes plastic bits (they’ll melt) and the [...]
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1. Take lots of photos!
When stripping your scoot for restoration, take lots of photos of the machine before you lay a spanner to it. This will help later when you need to run the cables, wiring loom and fitting funny shaped items. There is nothing worse than having to re-run cables because the steering [...]
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Although the history of musical trends in mod culture is easily chronicled, any attempt to strongly classify bands or music as mod is flawed in its premise; there is no mod [...]
Somewhere on the way home from school or work, the mods went “missing”-they were absorbed into a noonday underground of cellar clubs, discotheques, boutiques and record shops which [...]
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Its a 1974. . . a work in progress. We found it in Grandfield Oklahoma, and paid $250 for the Vespa, assorted books on how to fix it, and a useless battery. Oh well, it’s very complete, down to the mirrors with only 3,000 miles on it. Poor scooter doesn’t run yet, but its nice [...]
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As part of an almost an inevitable backlash given the pre-eminence of baggy and grunge in the early part of the decade, the pendulum swung again as British youth rediscovered the ideologies of modernism. The watershed event will most likely be remembered as being Blur’s release of Modern Life Is [...]
The post-punk return to modernism of the late 1970s was mostly a fiasco, in hindsight doomed to failure as a result of its essentially derivative nature and lack of original talent. Largely energized by the first ever full-length commercial film about mods (Quadrophenia), the bandwagonesque set of bands that sprung up [...]
