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The Road Rats initially emerged as a London street gang in the early 1960s before evolving into a motorcycle club. [1]In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a number of homegrown British outlaw biker clubs, in reaction to the international publicity of the Hells Angels in the United States, began adopting the Hells Angels' name and insignia without authorisation from the American club. [1]
As of 2009, Road Knights membership in New Zealand was low and former leadership had either dispersed, died or gone to jail. [146] [147] [148] Road Rats: 1960s London, England, U.K. Said to be one of England's oldest outlaw motorcycle clubs. Road Runners: 1978 Silesia, Poland: In addition to Poland, they are located in Germany, Switzerland and ...
Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009. An outlaw motorcycle club is a motorcycle subculture.It is 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.
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Amidst growing membership and increasingly sophisticated criminal activity, federal law enforcement agencies within the United States Department of Justice began classifying outlaw motorcycle gangs as "non-traditional organized crime" beginning in 1981, identifying four of the gangs—the Hells Angels, the Outlaws, the Pagan's and the Bandidos—as the largest and most powerful.
A Sept. 1 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video of dozens of bikers traveling together down a road next to a video about supposed gang activity in Colorado.
At a motorcycle event in Cookham on 19 September 1983 sponsored by the Windsor chapter of the Hells Angels, a fight broke out in a queue where bikers were lining up to gang rape a woman, pitting 24 members of the Satans Slaves' Manchester chapter against six members of the Road Rats of London. Two Road Rats bikers, Michael Harrison and Colin ...