Just into full rocker mode. Another year and the majority of bikes would have clip ons. Great stuff, what memories! Thank you.

*Dear, Hollywood. Please make cool (and grounded) motorcycle movies.* PLEASE and thank you.

What year was this exactly , it must have obviously been pre, helmet law ?

Hahaha 🎉

Love this old film 👍

Love Rita and The LB is a masterpiece of the 60's.

Crackin bit of film , surprised to see so many Triumphs still with their ''bathtubs'' 👍👍👍👍

Interessante 😮

Excellent!

facebook.com/100009556607230/videos/1259485957880051/ here's a link to a video thats in a post i have on my FB page that has a couple of pics & vids on, one of which is this interview with Giacomo Agostini about the film.

Very nice visuals.

Look how well behaved the youth culture of yesteryear was! 👍

Empty roads no traffic ,what have we lost. 9-30 pm

I really loved this film. Visually its outstanding. Excellent b&w cinematography. The highway motorcycle race is really well filmed. Probably the most awesome collection of Ton Up - Rocker motorcycle jackets you'll ever come across on film. Images around the great old Ace Cafe are superb. All the acting is excellent. Rita Tushingham is too believable as the cockney "Mrs". I understand that the story it toned down from the book on which its based. Some criminal behavior and more overt gay themes are removed. But they weren't necessary to make this film work. It's fairly obvious early on that the "Pete" character is not interested in girls. And it seems to me that depicting "Reggie" as clueless about his new best friend's homosexuality works better than depicting him as bisexual. That would be confusing. I very much liked the way this story played out as well as the glimpse into British working class life in the early 1960s. And I like the way the story ends, which I won't give away here. All in all a really neat film from the standpoint of the fine acting, visuals and story line. Highly recommended.

I really loved Leather Boys. Visually its outstanding. Excellent b&w cinematography. The highway motorcycle race is really well filmed. Probably the most awesome collection of Ton Up - Rocker motorcycle jackets you'll ever come across on film. Images around the great old Ace Cafe are superb. All the acting is excellent. Rita Tushingham is too believable as the cockney "Mrs". I understand that the story it toned down from the book on which its based. Some criminal behavior and more overt gay themes are removed. But they weren't necessary to make this film work. It's fairly obvious early on that the "Pete" character is not interested in girls. And it seems to me that depicting "Reggie" as clueless about his new best friend's homosexuality works better than depicting him as bisexual. That would be confusing. I very much liked the way this story played out as well as the glimpse into British working class life in the early 1960s. And I like the way the story ends, which I won't give away here. All in all a really neat film from the standpoint of the fine acting, visuals and story line. Highly recommended.

I really loved this film. Visually its outstanding. Excellent b&w cinematography. The highway motorcycle race is really well filmed. Probably the most awesome collection of Ton Up - Rocker motorcycle jackets you'll ever come across on film. Images around the great old Ace Cafe are superb. All the acting is excellent. Rita Tushingham is too believable as the cockney "Mrs". I understand that the story it toned down from the book on which its based. Some criminal behavior and more overt gay themes are removed. But they weren't necessary to make this film work. It's fairly obvious early on that the "Pete" character is not interested in girls. And it seems to me that depicting "Reggie" as clueless about his new best friend's homosexuality works better than depicting him as bisexual. That would be confusing. I very much liked the way this story played out as well as the glimpse into British working class life in the early 1960s. And I like the way the story ends, which I won't give away here. All in all a really neat film from the standpoint of the fine acting, visuals and story line. Highly recommended.

Ironic how most of the Rockers had a better view towards head safety 🙂

Rita great in A Taste of Honey

324th sub! 👍😀

What a slag! 😱

interesting video this. I think this is some of the best clips of the original mods and rocker in existence. I think the Carnaby street interviews incl John Stephen and Dave Clark were on the Panorama film aswell. I know ITN have a 5 minute clip aswell , plus various beach fight scenes. Cheers for uploading

I wonder how many of them would have made it to Edinburgh and back without breakdowns !!

growing up Rita was the 1960s, Fury, Cliff, Lynch, Tarbuck, Black, Dodd, and Tushingham were household names, Sunday Night at the Palladium days, royals variety shows, the British new wave of music, acting, dressing, everything, they were THE in crowd, the ones to watch, it all changed so fast between 68-69

Good, church going, folk! 😂

Excellent vintage clip.. Thanks for sharing..

Excellent !! 😍

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Congratulations Ken on getting 300 subs 👍

Those Mods look ridiculous with those hair driers, more mirrors than cc,s, UP THE ROCKERS

Brilliant!

My grandfather was a mod and would go into the Ace and put The Small Faces on the jukebox.

Great video! People go on about nowadays being violent, but the 70's and 80's were very violent!

Excellent! In 1971 I was 17 and very hairy! Great days in the Toon!

the best motorcycle film Hi met mark wilsmore who now owns the ACE

Leather jacket, coffee shop gang, classic bikes, music radio,100mph speed, what a culture and tradition that we lost. yes, the cafe racer. no need to buy a car just a bike to racing along the road.

Wot, no Velos???

I can smell the leather and STP!!!!!

I can remember back in the day riding my BSA C15 250 wearing an open face helmet an old pair of oily jeans and a worn out leather jacket covered in patches and metal studs, in summer I wore a tee shirt and in winter I wore a woolly jumper and I rode my bike 7 days a week in all weathers to work and for pleasure,, back then nobody was bothered about the size of your bike, everyone with a bike was seen as a biker and bikers stuck together and got on with each other, bikers were a much tougher breed back then and a lot younger, no waterproofs and gloves or even a visor, yet still rode all over the country, night and day, now the only bikes I see on the road during winter are scooters and 125s, biking is a much different world now for sure. I still ride my bike an old Kawasaki ZZR 600 to work and back, 60 miles everyday and I am in my 60s.

I hate scooters!

Proper coffee bar cowboys and caff racers. The current trend misses the point

She looks fine for her age!

20 years ago I got a divorce, quit my job (15years bank teller in Paris), sold my 2 cars and a small farm. Ever since, I work 6 months per year, here and there. Bought a 1981 CB900 bol’dor and ever since I’m on the road.

Shitty roads, even shittier tyres and poor brakes. Hard case riders those boys. My brother rode with a similar group here in Brisbane based at stones corner.

Must be mid 60’s, lot of bathtub trumps, tho i thought i saw a large royal enfield; constellation/meteor?

The yanks had Easy Rider we Stone and you pommies had Leather Boys 🦄

I lived close to the A20 in Kent in the early 1960's, and this film revives memories of gangs of ton up boys speeding down the road on their way to Brands Hatch, Johnson's Café and to the south coast resorts on summer Sundays. The film music doesn't fit to well, 'Terry' by Twinkle would be a lot more appropriate 😎!

Great film The Leather Boys. The Ace Cafe is now a re-enactors museum.

My first bike was a used 69-70 750 Commando.. what a beast.

Groovy man

I was a mod on a scooter and while passing some rockers outside a cafe they threw lumps of cheese at me . I remember thinking......that's mature