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4) "1%" patch identifying outlaw clubs 5) Special title(s), nickname(s), chapter name, charter name 6) Club office/rank 7) Side rocker – regional chapter name, charter name. Colors are the insignia, or "patches", worn by motorcycle club members on cut-off vests to identify membership of their club and territorial location. [1]
Other support clubs range from local groups, such as the Undertakers MC in Lexington, Kentucky, [74] to regional clubs like the Chosen Few MC, which is based in Canada and Upstate New York. [40] Although the Outlaws are a White -only club, the group's support clubs include African American motorcycle clubs, such as the Outcast MC. [ 75 ]
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.
The U.S. Department of Justice says Hells Angels is one of multiple outlaw motorcycle gangs posing a "serious national domestic threat" due to drug trafficking and smuggling crimes.
The U.S. Justice Department designates Hells Angels, founded in the years after World War II in Fontana, California, as an outlaw motorcycle gang and criminal enterprise.
Outlaw motorcycle gangs sprung up in the United States in the 1940s. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded in 1948 near San Bernardino, California. Hells Angels, along with Pagans, Vagos ...
A small, but notable, American outlaw motorcycle gang which maintains at least 5 chapters across the nation. [77] Highway 61 MC: 1968 Auckland, New Zealand: One of the largest gangs in New Zealand, and for a time, the nation's largest outlaw motorcycle club. Also operates in the Commonwealth of Australia. [78] Highwaymen: 1954 Detroit, US
The Outlaws are considered a criminal motorcycle gang by the Belgian Federal Police. [32] The club's first chapter in Belgium was formed in Mechelen on 5 March 1999. [13]In April 2000, "full-patch" member Jan Wouters was killed by Outlaw André Renard in the presence of two other Outlaws on the club's domain in Mechelen.