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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.
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.
With chapters in at least 8 countries, they are one of the most well-known support clubs for the Bandidos MC. Chosen Few: 1959 Los Angeles, US 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
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.
The Homietos Motorcycle Club are an American outlaw motorcycle gang with reported activity and leadership in Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and Texas.Information surrounding the Homietos and its founding history is limited, however, the outlaw club in recent years has increasingly become the subject of a number of violent and well-publicized incidents involving other motorcycle clubs.
The Cossacks Motorcycle Club or Cossacks MC are an American outlaw motorcycle club. Said to be one of the largest outlaw biker groups in the state of Texas, they are best known for their conflicts with the rival Bandidos Motorcycle Club - most notably, the 2015 Waco shootout which left seven members of the group dead.
Freemen Motorcycle Club [5] Freewheelers Motorcycle Club [5] Gear Headz MC Akron, Ohio; Gooses Motorcycle Club, in Cleveland, Ohio (patched over in 1967) [82] Grateful Dead Motorcycle Club, in Bridgeport, Connecticut (patched over in 1975) [91] Hackers Motorcycle Club, in Rochester, New York (patched over in 1969) [92] HELLBOUND Motorcycle Club ...
A Bandidos member in Denmark. The Bandidos Motorcycle Club is classified as a motorcycle gang by law enforcement and intelligence agencies in numerous countries. While the club has denied being a criminal organization, Bandidos members have been convicted of partaking in criminal enterprises including theft, extortion, prostitution, drug trafficking and murder in various host nations.