scooterboy

Mid eighties to mid nineties british youth cult. Recognisable by bad haircuts, ratty scooters such as Lambretta or Vespa and a love for obscure and rare soul, ska, punk andpsychobilly. Often found in pubs in run down seaside reorts.

Not a mod

Little boy who rode scooters in the 80`s. Now either biker or looser.

A rider of a manual gearchange Vespa or Lambretta motorscooter. Wears an MA1 flight jacket and Levis' 501s. Hair cut to skinhead or flattop.

A Bird/Lime scooter dickriding fanboy

A vestige of the 1980s youth subculture revolved around hotting up and cutting down Italian motorscooters as a reaction to the Italian and US fashion styled Mod revivalists.

Today's scooterboy is now middle aged, married with children and with the same labouring job he has had for the past 30 years. He wears combat trousers and shoehorns himself in the same Levi denim jacket covered in ratty rally patches and sewn-on bar towels he had in 1983 to show you his legitimacy. Attends scooter rallies to drink himself into oblivion in solidarity with other scooterboys, partially because that's what he did when he was 17 but mostly to forget his current sad existence. Can't stand any scooter that isn't a manual two stroke Vespa or Lambretta. Loves to get verbally abusive and threatening towards anyone in the scooter scene but outside his narrow social group.
Repeats the same stories about getting drunk at rallies in the 1980s, riding mates' scooters unlicenced with no lights throughout the night before crashing. Often he will write these stupid stories down and send them into Scootering magazine to be published. Also, after having been shown how to operate a computer recently by their kids, they have discovered that getting on the internet while drunk and abusing other scooter riders, mods, or blow-ins (someone who bought a scooter after they did and therefore have illegitimate views or rights to go to rallies or other scooter events) gives meaning to their existence.

1) Matt Arguin

Someone who missed the entire Scooterboy era of the 1980's, but has seen old copies of Scootering Magazine, and tries to copy the whole thing in a sanitised manner, drinking cans of Diet Coke, and saying hello to seaside holiday makers, (once he's unloaded his immaculate scooter from the van), and parked his 'display' up next to the beachside ice-cream van.
On his brand new denim jacket, he'll wear old ebay bought Paddy Smith Rally patches from places he couldn't find on a map, let alone ever visited... He'll never have slept drunkenly in a bus shelter, or gutter in his life.

He'll stay in B&B's.
He'll think Autos are 'cool'.
He'll probably work in an estate agency, will talk total bollocks about being involved in stories he's overheard in 'the Lud' at the IOW comedy mod gathering.
He'll be full of himself, and tons of bullshit.
A clueless Mummy's boy with enough money to have bought a scooter, deludedly thinking he bought the previous life of said scooter, and it's former owners.
He's convinced his own sad little mind that he has covered every mile it's ever been ridden, when it's only ever been ridden along the length of a seafront since it's shop built restoration.
A Comedy Scooterboy will generally be a middle aged socailly inept plonker, of the 'Billy No Mates' kind, trying to fit into a social group he never belonged to, (unconvincingly!!)
A wannabe comedy mod, minus the parka, a few flags and roundels, and a few tons of bolt on metallic tat!