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The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, [1] is an outlaw motorcycle club with a worldwide membership. [6] [7] [8] Formed in San Leon, Texas, in 1966, the Bandidos MC is estimated to have between 2,000 and 2,500 members [5] and 303 chapters located in 22 countries, [4] making it the second-largest motorcycle club in the world behind the Hells Angels.
Original center patch of the Cossacks MC, worn during the notable Waco shootout of 2015. The Cossacks Motorcycle Club was founded in Tyler, Texas in 1969 by a group of six bikers: Earl Swift, Charles Hanks, Butch Cheatham, Paul Henley, Tom Eliason and Carl Blair. The club was named after historical Cossack Horsemen of Ukraine and southern Russia.
The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, like other prominent outlaw motorcycle clubs, utilizes smaller motorcycle clubs – known as support clubs, "puppet clubs" or "satellite clubs" – as auxiliary units. These support clubs, mostly regional, are subservient to the will of the Bandidos and, in general, are typically used for protection, promotion or ...
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 California. Demons Blood Brotherhood Motorcycle Club.
Bacchus Motorcycle Club. 1972. Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. Said to be one of Canada's oldest outlaw motorcycle clubs, they also stand as one of nation's largest in Canada with more than one chapter in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland & Ontario. Its members are known to only ride Harley-Davidson motorbikes.
177. On May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas, United States, a shootout erupted at a Twin Peaks restaurant where more than 200 persons, including members from motorcycle clubs that included the Bandidos, Cossacks, and allies, had gathered for a meeting about political rights for motorcyclists. [ 1 ] Law enforcement, which included 18 Waco Police ...
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] The Sons of Silence are the sixth-largest motorcycle club in the world, behind the Hells Angels, the ...
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.