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The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", and "81". [10]
Brothers Motorcycle Club, in Anchorage, Alaska (patched over in 1982) [83] [84] Brothers Fast Motorcycle Club, in Denver, Colorado (patched over in 2001) [85] Chosen Brothers Motorcycle Club(Indiana) Confederate Angels Motorcycle Club, in Richmond, Virginia (defunct) [86] [87] Deathmasters Motorcycle Club [88] Delinquents Motorcycle Club, in ...
Absorbed by the Hells Angels in 1977 to become the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club chapter in Canada. [139] [140] [141] Rebels: 1969 Brisbane, Australia Originally known as the Confederates, this outlaw OMCG has 70-something chapters worldwide and is the largest in Australia. Rebels: 1968 Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Barger claims the gun fired by accident, but wrote in his 2000 autobiography Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club: "since the motherfucker was already shot in the head, I bent him over the pool table and shot him again". [22] Barger was convicted of assault with the intent to murder. [22]
The Rockers Motor Club, often abbreviated as the Rockers MC, was a Canadian outlaw biker gang and support club for the larger Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. [ 21 ] Lasting from 1992 until 2001, the group played a significant role in the ill-famed Quebec Biker War . [ 22 ]
A motorcycle enthusiast, Zito established the New Rochelle Motorcycle Club in 1974, which merged with the Bronx-based Ching-a-Ling Nomads in 1976. [24] He met Sandy Alexander, a professional boxer who was the president of the New York City chapter of the Hells Angels, while they both trained at the Gramercy Gym on East 14th Street in Manhattan. [11]
The British crime expert Tony Thompson disputed the picture of the British Hells Angels as merely a motorcycle club made up of loveable outcasts as he wrote that the Hells Angels are "pure form of organised crime" who have "accomplished in 25 years what it took the Mafia over 200 years to do". [19]
While Oakland Hells Angels president Sonny Barger was recovering from an operation for throat cancer in the early-mid 1980s, O'Farrell served as acting president of the chapter beginning in 1983. As Oakland is the location of club's unofficial "mother chapter", he was additionally the de facto leader of the Hells Angels internationally.