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Market Street Commandos: 1940s San Francisco, US Notable for their participation in the Hollister riot of 1947. They would later merge with the Hells Angels to form the latter's San Francisco charter. Median Empire MC 2011 Cologne, Germany: Perdominantly Kurdish-German self-proclaimed "1%er club". In addition to Germany, the group has chapters ...
Outlaws tattoo featuring SS sig runes Members are required to pay dues of $1,200 per year and to attend local, regional and national events. [ 3 ] Obligatory chapter "church" meetings are held weekly, and club motorcycle trips and parties which may last several days, known as "runs", are held throughout the year.
2014 Triumph Street Triple R 1983 Honda CBR400F. Though it has its styling roots in the café racer culture of the 1950s and 1960s, the streetfighter is very much inspired by the new Japanese bikes of the late 1970s and early 1980s, [10] possibly from young riders who couldn't afford to replace damaged fairings after repeated crashes.
Police raided the Hell's Lovers clubhouse in the Austin district on the West Side of Chicago on June 15, 1980, arresting nine men and seizing a hand grenade and three shotguns, after a 28-year-old woman was allegedly beaten and raped on the premises. Three members—Derrick Hargrett, Jessie Jones, and James Windham—were charged with rape, one ...
In September 1878, Weed Sewing Machine Company built the last of the fifty bikes under the first contract. Albert Pope chose the brand name Columbia for the first high-wheelers "produced" by Pope Manufacturing. These first machines, copied from the Excelsior Duplex model, were made from seventy-seven parts that were made in-house, and only the ...
A sports motorcycle, sports bike, or sport bike is a motorcycle designed and optimized for speed, acceleration, braking, and cornering on asphalt concrete race tracks and roads. They are mainly designed for performance at the expense of comfort, fuel economy , safety, noise reduction and storage in comparison with other motorcycles .
A bike tour in Chicago brings riders up close to Chicago's 1919 race riots, honoring the 38 victims and highlighting the riots' impact.
Excluded as the record-beating H2R variant is track-only and not street-legal. [36] [better source needed] Lightning LS-218: 2014–present Electric motor: N/A 200 bhp (150 kW) 216 mph (348 km/h) The 216 mph record was set using an LS-218 modified from street-legal form, with "high-speed gearing and fairing".