....hippie flower groupie...

SINUS wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:46 am My Voskhod-Honda (Voskhonda), 1974, Vladivostok, Russia.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:11 pm

whatwat wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:55 am

AndyKK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:30 am Andykk 1974

Chopper! I kept knocking the gear lever with my knee.
Do you remember what the warning strip said on the seat, no passengers allowed of something. Lol.

Luxury!! My big brother had that one with the 3 speed gearbox.

All I got was the cheapo poverty model

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:15 pm wow are you off

....hippie flower groupie...

were all gone by 1969

During the mid-late 1970s, with the end of the draft and the Vietnam War, a renewal of patriotic sentiment associated with the approach of the United States Bicentennial, the decline in popularity of psychedelic rock, and the emergence of new genres such as prog rock, heavy metal, disco, and punk rock, the mainstream media lost interest in the hippie counterculture.

But by the mid-1970s, the hippie movement began to slow. After all, the United States was out of Vietnam, civil rights had at least formally been adopted in federal legislation, and, well, the yuppies had arrived.

By the time U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in 1973, the media had largely lost interest in the hippie movement, even though many of the hippies’ formerly radical style choices (beards, sideburns and long hair on men, for example) had been adopted by mainstream American culture. But the communes, which endured until the mid-’70s and even longer, in some cases, would be the source of many of the hippies’ lasting legacies, including pro-environmental attitudes and practices that are still very much in force today.

MYTH NO. 1
Hippies were a phenomenon of the 1960s.
“When people in the early 2000s think about the 1960s, they might think first about the ‘hippies,’ ” suggests the widely used online educational company Gale. Likewise, the Princeton Review’s SAT guidebook prompts students: “Think about the 1960s. What comes to mind? Maybe it’s the Beatles, dancing hippies, and Vietnam.” Hippies might be the most famous symbol of the 1960s; after all, they emerged in the middle of that decade.

But they didn’t really hit their stride until the early 1970s, when their numbers and influence peaked. The hippies’ drug subculture in the 1960s became youth pop culture in the ’70s; issues of the stoner magazine High Times, founded in 1974, sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Rock-and-roll, once seen as a frivolous hobby for teenagers, became a serious artform and publications such as Rolling Stone became national tastemakers. And a quick perusal of nearly any high school yearbook well into the late ’70s shows that long hair became standard for teenage boys across the country. Even some of the male teachers had shaggy cuts. Google Books’ Ngram Viewer reveals the trajectory of America’s fascination with the counterculture: The frequency of the term “hippies” peaked in books in 1971 and stayed above 1967 levels until 1977.