172cc Generation

This project took about a year and was featured editorially and I even made it into short documentary for the BBC. I followed the lives of several young men in Luton that adapted scooters to go faster and ultimately enjoy life ...and to pick up girls. The thesis of the project was to talk about how we overlook these young men that live on the threshold of manhood and to give them a voice.

Article in the Independent Saturday magazine

Boy with a hickey on his neck props up his helmet with pride

4 up on Patrick's scooter

Young scooter rider sits back to front leaning on his helmet at Ace Cafe in London

Lads hanging out at Ace Cafe biker stop in east London

Dan sets his hand on fire in a Luton car park

Four lads sit on helmets watching the stunts outside Ace Cafe London

Young family in an open top car watch the boys ride up and down outside the Ace Cafe London

Youths hangout on the road opposite Ace Cafe in East London to watch the stunts

Pat and Kez admire a bike as a girlfriend looks on

Mum & Dad tattoo on a young man in a Luton industrial estate car park

A young man plays on a playstation wired up to his scooter battery

Stickers of scantily clad women on the Learner plate of a scooter

Terry does a burnout for the crowd at Ace Cafe London

Young couple on a scooter at Ace Cafe London

Lads pulling wheelies in a Luton Industrial estate carpark

Local Police pay a visit to check road tax disks and to subdue the usual rowdiness

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