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Colors identify the rank of members within clubs from new members, to "prospects" to full members known as "patch-holders", and usually consist of a top and bottom circumferential badge called a rocker, due to the curved shape, [7] with the top rocker stating the club name, the bottom rocker stating the location or territory, and a central logo of the club's insignia, with a fourth, smaller ...
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.
A mixed race outlaw motorcycle club that has chapters in at least 34 U.S. states and the Philippines. [24] [25] Club Deroes: 1971 Perth, Australia Coffin Cheaters: 1970 Perth, Australia In the 1980s, the gang was among the four dominant outlaw motorcycle clubs in Western Australia. Currently operates charters in Norway, Australia and the United ...
According to law enforcement, the Outlaws utilize support clubs to carry out retail-level drug distribution and violent crimes in order to insulate the club from possible criminal liability. [72] The official, and primary, support club for the Outlaws is the Black Pistons Motorcycle Club, which is active internationally. [73]
The Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club was founded in Niwot, Colorado in 1966 by Bruce Gale "The Dude" Richardson, who was living in Longmont after serving in the U.S. Navy from July 1958 to February 1960. [2] Richardson later left the club and died of natural causes in Scottsbluff, Nebraska on March 26, 2013. [7]
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.
Up the gang ranks “The Pagans are one of the most notorious outlaw motorcycle gangs around the world,” Easley said during a news conference at the U.S. District Courthouse in Raleigh.
This category includes outlaw, or one-percenter, motorcycle clubs, and topics related to them. It does not include motorcycle clubs or motorcycle hooliganism . The main article for this category is Outlaw motorcycle club .