I agree that this attitude was a bit stuck in the 80s, but as there was a lot of the hassle mentioned on scooter runs in the 80s then it was totally understandable why the mod scene took it's own direction for events at the time, and introduced dress codes to prevent further disruption.
You cannot compare your current venues success to those times.
One of my closest mates at the time that I attended the 80s rallies was a huge f*cker of a Pyschobilly with the biggest quiff you could imagine, he loved scooters and was one of the nicest guys you could meet. He had started off getting into the mod revival thing as a spotty teenage himself, but could never understand my obsession with the 60s mod look at the time..it never made either of us feel superior or inferior to each other, but other than scooters our interests were completely different, so there was always plenty of pisstaking...to some-one who didn't know him they could be really intimidated by such behaviour...add to that a twisted character and a few beers and its easy to see how differences became disputes.
To be fair, there was also other elements disrupting the scooter runs at the time (vanloads of NF skins etc) and it always seemed to be a timebomb waiting to go off.
Your club is hugely successful in todays scootering climate, and its a welcome thing to see as attitudes have changed and people matured......personally think it would have been a nightmare of a club to run in the 80s.
Hence there are still clubs that cater for mods only, there are still differences of opinion, there are mods who still dislike scooterboys and vise versa, as there are many differences of opinion on the northern scene.
It's what makes the world go round..............