Are you a mod or a rocker?
From the 19 December, 1963 edition of Motor Cycle magazine: Sitting on the fence is out these days; if you're under 25 you must be either a mod (add "ernist" when consulting a dictionary) or a rocker. Perhaps you haven't decided where your allegiance lies. Or, maybe, you don't belog to either camp. In that case you are a fogey, old or otherwise.
Here, then, is everyman's guide to mods, rockers and mids (they are neither one thing nor the other -- a bit of a mixture). All you have to do is to decide which of the answers, (a, b or c) is most applicable to you. The handy reference chart at the foot of the page will tell you in a flash whether you are a with it, near it or past it.
Questions below.
1. Do you (a) ride a scooter? (b) ride a motor bike? (c) drive a car?
2. When riding do you wear (a) a parka with a fur-trimmed hood? (b) a leather jacket? (c) stormcoat and waders?
3. Is your machine adorned with (a) fox tails? (b) dolphin fairing and dropped bars? (c) legshields?
4. Is your headgear (a) an Andy cap? (b) a space helmet? (c) nothing?
5. Are your trousers (a) pink half-mast, 15in wide? (b)jeans, blue, 12in wide? (c) bags, Oxford, 22in wide?
6. Do you like the Beatles? (a and b) Yes; (c) Who?
7. Do you comb your hair (a) sometimes? (b) often? (c) none to comb?
8. Is your footwear (a) soft creepers, Cuban boots or baseball boots? (b) zip-back riding boots or winkle-pickers? (c) sensible?
9. Is your favourite shirt (a) polka-dot with high tab collar? (b) black? (c) white?
10. Do you drink (a) Coke? (b) coffee? (c) beer?
Score: a=3; b=2; c=1
With it:
Mod...30 points
Mid...25 points
Rocker...20 points
Without it:
Fogey...< 20 points
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Wes Siler. October 14, 2009 — Permalink
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I scored 20, Rocker.
guess i'm a mid..my hairstyle is helmet hair
28 - BC,B,B,B,B,AB,B,B,ABC
Fogey - crap
of course if I could actually read & follow instructions I would've scored a 20
Fogey.
That's cool, I'd rather be that than have a Lambretta with fourteen mirrors.
20. Rock on.
Man, even in the 60s I'd be terribly uncool.
Though I must take umbrage at the suggestion that beer is a drink for fogeys.
Don't forget that a fundamental aspect of the Rocker mindset was that they were opposed to drugs and alcohol because it impaired their ability to ride a bike, race from cafe to cafe and generally be hooligans.
How bout someone who has 2 motorcycles AND a vintage Vespa in the garage?
Fogey.
I'm to hip for your conformo magazine article, man.
20, rock on.
I have no idea what any of the footwear in number 8 look like. I'm can't figure out what I am!
As Ringo said: "I'm a mocker."
Rocker... Not too surprising, I think this site is more rocker =)
Everything is much clear for me after this...
I'm half a modernist-rocker, half a skinheaded-hellbilly! (this is what happens when you have an old Vespa and dance to Eddie Cochran or when you wear your parka while listening to Hank III... these are crazy times, I guess!)
oh, by the way... who the hell are The Beatles?
MOCKER
Yes! I am a Samantha! I love these quizzes!
Larry,
I rode with a lot of rockers in the London to Oxford area in the 60's,and we must have missed the memo about no beer and drugs
Hank III yeeeeowwwwwwwww haha. rockerbilly! and doc martens ftw!
16, I am a rocker even though I have a genuine 125 scoot. Though I do ride cafes and race motorcycles. Hmmm...
Heh, fair enough John. Mostly trying to find the justification for the Coke/Coffee/Beer question.
A Friend of mine recently commented that "Mods rock scooters while Rockers mod Motorbikes" Can't we all just get along?
GROUP HUG!
Wes and Grant, are you "With it" or "Without it?" Commenters want to know!
I would have dressed like a mod but ridden a motorbike (Norvin) between all the PUBS. Happy to be undefinably...American.
24 so not a mid but a bit more then a Rocker... hmmm interesting indeed.
Wes is borderline fogey at 20, while I'm a 23.
21... Rocker
I'm a rocker. Period. Have been since the summer of 1964 (I was 14) and reading about the Brighton bank holiday riots in Time and Newsweek. Didn't get my first bike until twelve years later, caffed it, of course. Didn't get my first Triumph until '80. Caffed it, of course.
Still have my main cafe racer: '69 Bonneville, Norman Hyde rearsets, clubman bars. My leather is heavily studded and loaded with 59 Club patches.
Oh yeah, I'm a Yank. Formerly Western Pennsylvania, now Central Virginia.