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July 08, 2005

Peace Nick

Mars I can't find my friend Nick. I'm looking for a link to his new pub on the outskirts of London. I have this picture of it, MARS bar (get it?), short for "Mods and Rockers." I know Nick from Secret Society Scooter Club. He was in the San Diego Chapter and then the San Francisco chapter and then he packed up for the Old Country, and then showed up for a visit at the twenty-year reunion, where I met him, though he's not pictured here or here. Secret Society SC puts on an annual event for scooters and motorcycles together with our friends the San Francisco Motorcycle Club and we call it Mods VS. Rockers as though there were some bitter rivalry, as though we all were any more than regular people on bikes. I hear people throw similar rallies in Sydney, Austin, San Diego, New York, Toronto, and of course, Brighton. What was all the fighting about forty years ago?

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We are the Mods!
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We are the Mods!

$75 Quid? I'll pay that right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_%28lifestyle%29

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockers

I know Nick from back in the day in SD. He rode the flying booger (green P200). I saw him before he took off to London, but haven't heard about him since then. That was a couple of years ago now. Let me know if you ever find out where he is. I would love to stop by for a pint.

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