{"id":46300,"date":"2016-10-04T11:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T10:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=46300"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:15:08","slug":"rebel-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/rebel-motorcycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Bikers: are they hairy chopper heads or Moto X kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does the motorcycle rebel really look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marlon Brando lounging sexily across his Triumph in The Wild One<\/em> was the start of something. Or it could have been the end, depending on your perspective.<\/p>\n

The motorcyclist has for the whole of the twentieth century been seen as a rebel, outside of mainstream society. In the popular imagination he has greasily staked out the edges of criminality.<\/p>\n

‘The biker’ is therefore a cowboy hero for the new Millennium. He is commodified, over-styled. His image is so loaded with association that he doesn’t really exist.<\/p>\n

But here’s the thing. The custom bike scene still uses the language of the beautiful, edgy loser.<\/p>\n

The web has accelerated this process. You can dig the aesthetic of motorcycling otherness even if you\u2019ve lived your entire life in a village in rural Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n

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As long as you’ve got a decent web hookup you can understand the language of the American highway. Who cares if you\u2019ve never heard the oily blap of a knucklehead in the steel?<\/p>\n

There are a ton of people still hammering home the enduring legacy of the Chopper\u2019s outsider status.<\/p>\n

21 Days Under The Sky <\/em> was released earlier this year through a kaleidoscope of online channels. You could pay for the film by way of iTunes pre-order. The film also appears on Netflix.<\/p>\n