VeloCast

There used to be many ways you could turn heads in the UK. Generation after generation sought to subvert the prevailing mores with their own ideas on fashion, music and language. Everyone from the Teddy Boys in the 1950’s through the Mods and Hippies of the 1960’s to the 70’s Punks and 80’s [...]

It’s a sad indictment of the society we live in that the phrase “grinning like an idiot” is in common usage.  The inference being, of course, that should we see anyone smiling or enjoying themselves out-with the prescribed norms, they must, therefore, be a simpleton.  I mean, really, what’s he got to be happy about?  [...]