What do you need to be a "ROCKER"? A British café racer style motorcycle and rock-n-roll music
These post war youth of 1950s United Kingdom, took the practice of driving and racing really fast on motorcycles and made it into a lifestyle. Much like punks, they clashed with mainstream society and revelled in it. What is a café racer motorcycle? It is a motorcycle that has been modified for speed and handling rather than comfort. So uncomfortable, that you won't want to go much farther than from café to café. Now let's explain why cafés... Coffee shops or cafés were, by law, unlike pubs, allowed to stay open all night. Both Mods and Rockers (archenemies) aimed at listening to music all night on the juke boxes.