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Since
the 1950s, the leather-clad motorcyclist has been the most potent image
of the archetypal bad boy. Synonymous with anarchistic and anti-social
behaviour, this two-wheeled menace has been the folk-law scourge of
global suburbia for over five decades. Theirs is a world where
two-wheeled vehicles, not people, are elevated to the status of cult
icons.
Biker Culture: Legend, Legacy
& Life is a painstakingly detailed chronicle of this unique
band of nomadic desperado, a full circuit tour of the domain of the
life-style Biker. Trawling deep into history to detail the early
town-sieges of
America
’s mid-West in the 1940s, through to the British Mod and Rocker
coastal clashes of the 1960s, the Easy Riders of the 1970s to the Street
Fighters of the 21st Century, this publication offers the definitive
insight into Biker Culture.
As
well as a factual chronicle, the book delves into the many
misconceptions surrounding this most feared of subcultures,
investigating whether there is any substance to society’s moral panic
when faced with the evolution of the multi-faceted 21st century Biker.
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