Scootering Words & Sounds
Scooterboys: The Lost Tribe - Martin ‘Sticky’ Round - Carpet Bombing Culture
Part of the Carpet Bombing Culture ‘Two finger salute’, aimed at casting a spotlight on British youth sub-culture which, over time, have become truly worldwide entities. Scooterboys – The Lost Tribe, joins Mods: A Way of Life, and Skins: A Way of Life as the third part of the publisher’s trilogy (so far) of books. Previous two titles were both by Patrick Potter, with Martin ‘Sticky Round’, the author of this, the third. Scooterboys, and scootergirls, were arguably the last of the great British youth cultures of the 20th century. Yet, with few exceptions there is little documentation from outside of the close-knit scene that has been recorded by the mainstream media during the heyday of the Scooterboy era. This is in part due to lazy journalists and newspaper hacks seeing a matt black cutdown chopper scooter and erroneously deciding the rider was a mod. Oh, how we laughed!
The book contains 175 images in colour and black and white, many previously unpublished from personal collections, and many capturing memories of a seriously misspent youth, which was sampled to the full by tens of thousands of similarly minded teens and 20-somethings from just about all points of the United Kingdom. Sticky himself experienced first-hand the vast majority of the Scooterboy years, from within. As well as which, he was fortunate enough to combine work with pleasure, from the infamous Isle of Wight August Bank Holiday weekend of 1986 (which descended into a near riot, resulting in a ban on scooter rallies on the island for a number of years after), until the present. A freelancer to scooter specialist publications, in more recent times he penned several books, all of which were best-sellers, from Frankenstein Scooters to Draculas Castles, plus three versions of A Complete Spanners workshop manual and guide to Lambrettas.
Accompanying the captivating photographs is Sticky’s narrative in his unique style of humorous observation and
