Johnnie oddball I was a member of the hackney 59 club where you could ride in after work ride through the club house to a workshop and fix ya bike and chillout and stay if you over done it , I was a dispatch rider for 20 years in London on all sortsof bikes top box tied on with bungy straps mat black bikes like a mad max cast member ,we built bikes for speed and looks and reliability learning the hard way how what worked and what didn't loosing mates on the way

Chelsea bridge to Heston services long after rockers and mods rd350lc rd500 gammas rg250s cb900s guzzis z750 z1300 z100 katanas ,british bikes where cool for bar italia dressing the white scarf n leather jackets like the mod look but it came and went in the 90s , ace café wasn't a café again till late 2000 it was a tyre shop for a many years Blackheath and Chelsea bridge where the tea huts to meet up in the 90s