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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 ] With a membership of over 6,000, and 592 charters in 66 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.
[1] [2] [3] With the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club being a worldwide force that has 475 chapters in 63 countries, their influence has allowed them to maintain and produce a number of support clubs around the globe.
Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009. An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a biker club or bikie club (in Australia), is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.
The Hells Angels' Akron chapter was formed in February 1979 by James Patrick Caronite, president of the club's territories in the Eastern U.S. [41] In December 1979, two Outlaws members armed with a silencer-equipped .22 caliber pistol and a sawed-off shotgun were arrested in a car by police near the Hells Angels' Akron clubhouse.
The Sin City Deciples Motorcycle Club, also known as Sin City Nation, is a mixed race one-percenter motorcycle club.As one of the most well-known and oldest black outlaw motorcycle clubs in the United States, they have multiple chapters across the nation and have an additional presence in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.
Pagan's Motorcycle Club, or simply the Pagans, is an outlaw motorcycle club formed by Lou Dobkin in 1957 in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. [1] [6] The club rapidly expanded and by 1959, the Pagans, originally clad in blue denim jackets and riding Triumphs, began to evolve along the lines of the stereotypical one percenter motorcycle club.
Clash between the two clubs at a Hells Angels-sponsored "Hell raiser Ball"in Plainview, New York on February 23, 2002, resulted in the arrest of 73 Pagans and 2 Angels, one biker was killed and 10 injured. [69] [70] Hells Angels recruit Pagans to form a chapter in Philadelphia in 2004, resulting in the conflict flaring up between the two groups ...
A nomad is a member of a motorcycle club (which may or may not be an outlaw motorcycle club) or similar club who is not a member of a specific charter of the group.. Some nomads live in geographical areas that have fewer than the required numbers to form a charter. [1]