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Rockers, leather boys or ton-up boys are a biker subculture that originated in the US during the 1950s. It was mainly centered around British cafe racer motorcycles and rock and roll music.
The termcafe racers originated in the 1950s, when bikers often frequented transport cafes , using them as starting and finishing points for road races. A cafe racer is a motorcycle that has been modified for speed and good handling rather than for comfort include: a single racing seat, low handlebars (such as ace bars or one-sided clip-ons mounted directly onto the front forks for control and aerodynamics), half or full race fairings, large racing petrol tanks (often left unpainted), swept-back exhaust pipes, and rear-set footpegs (to give better clearance while cornering at high speeds). motorcycles were lean, light and handled various road surfaces well. used the most common and fastest racing engine combined with the best handling frame of its day.Rockers bought standard factory-made motorcycles and stripped them down, tuning them up and modifying them to appear like racing bikes. Their bikes were not merely transport, but were used as an object of intimidation and masculinity projecting them uneasily close to death, an element exaggerated by their use of skull and crossbone-type symbolism. They wore heavily-decorated leather motorcycle jackets, often adorned with metal studs, patches, pin badges and sometimes an gas man trinket. When they rode their motorcycles, they usually wore no helmet, or wore a classic open-face helmet, aviator goggles and a white silk scarf (to protect them from the elements). Other common items included: T-shirts, leather caps, leather trousers, tall motorcycle boots (often made by Lewis Leathers) . The rocker hairstyle, kept in place with Brylcreem, was usually a tame or exaggerated pompadour, as was popular with some 1950s rock and roll musicians.They had no knowledge of the different sorts of drugs. To them amphetamines, cannabis, heroin were all drugs - something to be hated. Their ritual hatred of Mods and other sub-cultures was based in part on the fact that these people were believed to take drugs and were therefore regarded as sissies. Their dislike of anyone connected with drugs was intense.
n the 2000s, many rockers still wear engineer boots or full-length motorcycle boots, . have continued to wear motorcycle jackets, leather trousers and white silk scarves while riding their bikes. Leather caps adorned with metal studs and chains, common among rockers in the 1950s and 1960s, are rarely seen any more. Instead, some contemporary rockers wear a classic wool English driving cap.