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Larger outlaw motorcycle clubs have been known to form support clubs, also known as "satellite clubs", which operate each with their own distinctive club name but are subservient to the motorcycle club that has established them. They offer support to the principal club in a number of different ways.
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.
Free Souls Motorcycle Club: 1969 Eugene, Oregon, US Founded in 1969, this club is based in Eugene, Oregon with additional chapters in Washington state as well as Germany. [51] [52] Galloping Goose: 1942 Los Angeles, US A Hollister riot participant with a predominant presence throughout American Midwest. [53] [54] Gate Keepers Motorcycle Club: 2013
Members of an “outlaw” motorcycle club allegedly fired nearly 200 shots into a building in Lexington as part of a feud. Attack on Lexington motorcyle club cited in charges against 14 members ...
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]
The Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club (SOSMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club. Founded in Niwot, Colorado in the United States in 1966, the club has a membership of over 250, with 35 chapters based in 12 U.S. states and in Germany. [ 4 ]
Hells Angels clubhouse in Oakland Hells Angels California tattoo Hells Angels members. Numerous police and international intelligence agencies classify the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club as a motorcycle gang and contend that members carry out widespread violent crimes, including drug dealing, trafficking in stolen goods, gunrunning, extortion, and prostitution rings.
The Rock Machine and its support clubs, the Vendettas Motorcycle Club, Hell Hounds MC and SS Elite Motorcycle Club had also clashed with the Hells Angels and their support club the Redline Motorcycle Club for control of Manitoba from 2009 to 2011. The conflict saw a combination of shootings and fire bombings.