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  Outlaw biker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Outlaw Biker is an individual who is a member or an affiliate of a so-called motorcycle club.
An Outlaw biker CAN be defined by their relation to a motorcycle club, the involvement in criminal activity such as dealing with firearms, sale of illegal drugs and trade in stolen motorcycles and parts and a general attitude of being above the law.
The largest and most well-known group of outlaw bikers in the world are the Hells Angels but there are several other "clubs" that have a considerable presence in several countries worldwide.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Outlaw_biker   (523 words)

  
 Biker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the term refers to any motorcycle enthusiast, sometimes the word "biker" is sometimes used to mean an outlaw biker, or bikie, who is a member of a 1%er or outlaw motorcycle gang.
Bikers tend to associate with others that share their enthusiasm, and congregate at motorcycle events such as "bike week" rallies and races.
A motorcycle gang (also known as a biker gang) is a controversial term to describe a motorcycle club whose members (outlaw bikers and one percenters) are motorcycle riders, usually of Harley-Davidson or Triumph motorcycles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biker   (499 words)

  
 Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tracing how the image of outlaw bikers from newspaper and magazine stories was relocated into motion pictures and amalgamated with the conventions of the western will illustrate some of the ways in which this fusion of topicality and genre often leads itself to confusion.
The image of the outlaw bikers created by this press coverage was almost entirely negative, presenting them as savage monsters who represented the gravest of threats to civilized society -- with most reports taking the condemnatory Lynch Report at face value, using it as their primary source of information.
Biker movies cannot simply be classified as revisionist westerns, because westerns are historical narratives that function as allegories of the present day and biker movies significantly differ by being set in the present tense, not the past.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /film/journal/articles/outlaw-biker-movie.htm   (6630 words)

  
 Motorcycle Menace-Conclusion
The biker’s marginal existence was an invitation for the news media, in their role as moral entrepreneurs and watchdogs of the public good, to exhibit a negative example.
Outlaw motorcycle clubs had their moment of fame in the 1960s and 1970s, but then inner–city gangs of Bloods and Crips, harbingers of a new brand of deviance, inspired immediate fear and outrage in the citizenry.
The biker as outlaw is a costume men and women continue to exploit because as a society we relate to individuals who make their own way, the underdog who battles the odds and wins.
webs.morningside.edu /masscomm/DrRoss/Concl.html   (6324 words)

  
 Biker Tattoos
While people join outlaw biker clubs for a number of different reasons, the one thing they all seem to talk about is freedom - the freedom of the biker lifestyle, and most of all, the freedom of the open road.
Everyone has their own perception or biker gangs whether or not that it is the right perception.
Biker tattoos usually depict the biker gang the biker belongs to.
www.tao-of-tattoos.com /biker-tattoos.html   (456 words)

  
 SE-GAG Info -1%ers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The outlaw bikers are involved in murder, rape, assault, burglary, narcotics, theft, prostitution, weapons offenses and intimidation of the public and witnesses.
In the outlaw biker's society women are bought, sold, traded or given away within the club.
In the violent, profit-oriented society inhabited by the outlaw biker, that's all a woman is - a hole, a piece of property to rent or trade.
www.segag.org /ganginfo/frmcgang.html   (2107 words)

  
 CNEWS - Law - Bikers: London Hells Angel charged   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
But bank robberies are unusual in the outlaw biker world, said Guy Ouellette, a biker expert and ex-officer from Quebec.
McLeish has a long history with biker clubs in the region, most notoriously as one of those charged in the 1999 shooting of Loners leader Wayne Kellestine over a rift among club members.
But Lewis has had close ties with Quebec bikers and sources said he received protection from the Hells Angels after a pair of Outlaws bikers were gunned down in London.
cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Law/Bikers/2004/05/19/pf-464755.html   (464 words)

  
 The Helmet Law Defense League REPORT - 2nd Edition
Outlaw bikers are always dabbling in drugs and stolen parts or property.
Outlaw bikers women can be just as dangerous as their male counter-parts.
Manhandling a outlaw biker's colors would be akin to having a suspect remove your badge and bend it.
usff.com /hldl/report/2ndEditiona.html   (4596 words)

  
 Biker Rogue's Review of Colors Magazine
On the one hand, he tries to distance the mag, and outlaw clubs, from the sensationalized accounts of rape and pillage portrayed in the mainstream media, but on the other hand, occasionally uses the term “outlaw” to describe the clubs, as that is what they called themselves.
It mentions several incidents from around the country involving “outlaw gangs” and explains at the beginning, “We object to the word ‘gangs’ as most of these outlaw clubs are as well organized and recognized as some of these AMA clubs.” But then the writer goes on to use the term “gang” throughout the article.
Colors was pivotal in that the focus was on the outlaw clubs, as all the biker mags that had come before, were more technical specs articles on customizing, etc. It was the mag closest to outlaw segment of the biker population at the time.
www.bikerrogue.com /Articles/Biker_Rights/colors_magazine.htm   (2036 words)

  
 Bandit's Bookcase
Here is the rousing story of what a few dedicated bikers can do to ruffle the tailfeathers of the government as they ride around the country fighting the helmet laws.
With the publication of his second novel, Outlaw Justice, K. Randall Ball continues his riveting exploration of the biker lifestyle, this time taking the reader into the very heart of this little-known subculture, the outlaw motorcycle club.
Outlaw Justice tells the story of Danny Lonsdale, a member of a small Los Angeles club, sentenced to prison for a crime he didn't commit.
www.bikernet.com /bookcase   (841 words)

  
 Charisma Magazine Online
Yet they are hard-core bikers with obligatory nicknames such as Bulldog, Horse, Blade, Hippie Jim, Bear and Quasimoto.
They are driven by a passion for Christ and to bring the redemptive knowledge of Him to those they left behind in prisons and among the hard-core bikers--particularly the outlaw clubs, also called the "1 percenters" of biking enthusiasts, as the media dubbed them more than 50 years ago.
Individual riders can form motorcycle associations or ride groups, but to be a "club" they have to be recognized by the controlling outlaw club of a state.
www.charismamag.com /a.php?ArticleID=1562   (738 words)

  
 Motorcycle Menace-Introduction
That Hollywood treatment of outlaw bikers was inspired by the short story “Cyclists’ Raid,” (2) which was itself prompted by a weekend of violence and revelry in Hollister, California, and Life magazine’s photo of a beer-–bellied thug slopped across a hog amid a gutter full of empty beer bottles.
Similarly, bikers are the unflinching symbol of a vagabond lifestyle, iconoclasm and non–conformity.
Whether or not the role of outlaw biker is socially imposed or an aspect of internal desire, the image exists and there exists the possibility that the outlaw is a necessary element of society.
webs.morningside.edu /masscomm/DrRoss/Intro.html   (1533 words)

  
 Forces probe soldiers' outlaw biker links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Giles, a public affairs spokesman for the military's investigation unit, said he was aware of 29 individuals who had been under surveillance, and said that all the cases were "minor." To illustrate the "minor" cases, the captain said it could have been something so simple as a soldier with a Hells Angels bumper sticker.
He has not been briefed about the fact that 62, not 29, soldiers were under surveillance for their links to biker gangs that run country-wide drug smuggling networks.
The military is now working on a policy to prohibit Canadian soldiers from associating with outlaw biker gangs.
www.canada.com /ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=82587f4c-4687-43dc-9d6f-01abaf9f5542&k=56988   (563 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Biker gangs revving up within Utah
Outlaw motorcycle gangs have been active around the United States and other parts of the world for decades, and Utah may no longer be immune.
In Utah, outlaw biker gangs have not been much of a problem in recent years.
The Bandidos are one of the groups known among law enforcers as the "Big Four" of outlaw motorcycle gangs.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595055308,00.html   (1086 words)

  
 RoadKill's American Biker History Page
Before Bikers, in 1924 the AMA was formed.
The term "outlaw club" originally meant a club that was not sanctioned by the AMA and possibly ran non-sanctioned races.
The then president of the AMA said that it was 1% of the motorcyclists that cause all the "trouble".
www.fkmc.org /roadkill/bhist.html   (751 words)

  
 Biker News: Bikernews.net: 1%er,Outlaw,Biker,News
Canada - Hells Angels bikers, once the scourge of Quebec streets, are rebuilding after their ranks were decimated five years ago in the massive Operation Springtime police crackdown.
Australia - Biker gangs are back in the news after a violent brawl at a kickboxing tournament on the Gold Coast in which members of the Finks and Hells Angels clubs were shot and stabbed.
Massachusetts - A 46-year-old Tewksbury biker with a cache of weapons in his house was held without bail yesterday after he was accused of firing a weapon at his wife, prompting a SWAT team to be call...
bikernews.obworld.com   (852 words)

  
 Outlaw Biker War Looms On Local Horizon
The outlaw motorcycle gang Rock Machine, which has been engaged in a violent war for control of the lucrative drug trade in Quebec with the Hells Angels, has been officially made a "Support Club" of the Bandidos, one of the so-called "Big Four" outlaw gangs in the world.
Veteran biker investigator Mike Simpson, of the Harris County Sheriff's Department in Houston, Texas, homebase for the Bandidos mother chapter, said on Friday, "It's all about money and the money derived from drugs." According to Simpson there is an uneasy peace between the Hells Angels and the Bandidos.
In the four or so years the Rock Machine and the Hells Angels have been fighting, the body count has climbed to over 80, including an 11-year-old boy killed in 1995 because he was walking by a car booby-trapped with a bomb.
www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v99.n667.a03.html   (771 words)

  
 Holiday outlaws / Leather vest meets white collar while revving up in Hollister
They came to this rural San Benito County town, where the image of the outlaw biker was created more than 50 years ago, to shake hands and buy books from one of the original dreamers, Ralph "Sonny" Barger.
Nevertheless, even executive bikers said they have seen people move out of the way when they walk into a room in their riding gear, seen parents warn children to look away as they roar past their cars.
Bikers are a rare breed," he grumbled over a Jim Beam at Johnny's Bar and Grill.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/07/BA174442.DTL   (1023 words)

  
 CTV.ca | New six-hour miniseries puts spotlight on outlaw biker wars
MONTREAL -- A TV miniseries looking at the gritty world of outlaw bikers will likely be able to claim a captive audience among those who tune in to see it.
Besides the dustup with lawyers for real-life bikers, news of police roundups in four provinces and legal wrangling at Quebec biker trials was also in the media as publicists flogged the show.
But the star and the writer of The Last Chapter are quick to separate fiction from fact, even though the Hells celebrated the first anniversary of their long-sought expansion into Ontario last December.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1024896023086_20305223   (921 words)

  
 Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Kamikaze biker: parody and anomy in affluent Japan.
WOLF, Daniel R. The Rebels: a brotherhood of outlaw bikers.
Translation of: The Rebels, a brotherhood of outlaw bikers.
users.skynet.be /terrorism/html/bikers.htm   (1364 words)

  
 THE ULTIMATE BROOKE SHIELDS SITE
Outlaw Biker: Was it her idea to go or had the guys talked her into it?
Outlaw Biker: Were you worried her bodyguards would be out looking for you?
I think Brooke and her oeople didn't realize it was a biker bar until they were there for a few minutes.
www.brooke.by.ru /bnarticle04.htm   (647 words)

  
 Candies, Mark - American Society of Law Enforcement Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this session, each student will be able to:   define an Outlaw Motorcycle gang, identify three outlaw biker traditions born at Hollister, CA.
(1947), identify the 5 main parts of an outlaw biker's colors, describe the outlaw motorcycle gang member's culture map.
describe the outlaw motorcycle gang member's survival insights, describe the outlaw motorcycle gang member confrontational strategy, describe the outlaw motorcycle gang member tactcal plan, and explain the importance of "complete documentation"
www.aslet.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=589   (188 words)

  
 Chapter 4 of WHEELS OF RAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Death is closer to the motorcycle outlaw than to the operator of any other vehicle on the road.
The bikers were by then surrounded by police and were loudly demanding the release of Pinocchio.
At this all the bikers skidded to a halt.
www.kurtsaxon.com /wheels/chapter04.html   (4393 words)

  
 Ode to an Outlaw Biker - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When I was 19 I met a guy in a Biker Club (it's not a gang, it's a club).
Bikers I've known have had an unbridled love for freedom and a code of justice.
The bikers I've known have for the most part been really cool peeps -- I had one for a client myself on a business matter.
talkleft.com /new_archives/010392.html   (2278 words)

  
 Thesis Students - David Haslett - School of Sociology and Anthropology - University of Canterbury
New Zealand has had a visible ‘outlaw' biker culture since the end of the Second World War.
The loose-knit biker cliques of the 1950s gave way to the structured ‘outlaw motorcycle ‘gangs' that emerged across New Zealand in the early 1960s (and continue to flourish to this day).
This research project sets out to investigate how the founder members of early New Zealand outlaw motorcycle gangs (‘clubs') referenced the international movies, books, media reports and photographic images of the day to create the generic New Zealand ‘outlaw biker' model that can be observed in all New Zealand ‘outlaw motorcycle gangs' today.
www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz /research/thesis/thesis-dha.shtml   (178 words)

  
 CBC: Rough Cuts - Jan 1 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Port Dover's Friday the 13th biker rally has brought substantial economic benefits, but it has also altered the simple bucolic nature of the town and raised fears about the growing menace of organized crime and corruption.
Jeff is his polar opposite, a hard core biker from the outskirts of town who has a violent rap sheet and a bad attitude toward everything his hometown cherishes.
Friday the 13th: The Devil In Dover shows how the personal and professional conflict of a local cop, an outlaw biker and an opportunistic business woman intersect at the rally played out against the backdrop of civic disorder, emergency ready police operations and the tens of thousands of bikers who invade Port Dover every year.
www.cbc.ca /roughcuts/feature_050302.html   (572 words)

  
 Colors
The AMA once defined the number of "outlaw" clubs in America as consisting of approximately 1% of the total motorcyclist population.
The AMA considered an "outlaw" club to be one composed primarily to engage in organized crime.
Our task as motorcyclists is to attempt to change the standard "outlaw" biker mentality that has been applied to anyone wearing leather and looking "different".
www.icss.net /~squirts/colors.htm   (1056 words)

  
 CULT FILM SITE: Biker Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
After witnessing the shameless degradation of an innocent girl by an outlaw biker gang, the Babes rescue the girl and recruit her for their gang.
Two bikers (John Doe of X and Adam Horovitz from the Beastie Boys) travel from L.A. to Nevada with the ashes of their buddy.
A sleazy biker moves in on the daughter of an immigrant worker, then beats up a fl guy who shows an interest in his regular girlfriend.
sepnet.com /rcramer/biker.htm   (1285 words)

  
 Troops Canada - Forces probe soldiers' outlaw biker links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Capt. Giles, a public affairs spokesman for the military's investigation unit, said he was aware of 29 individuals who had been under surveillance, and said that all the cases were "minor." To illustrate the "minor" cases, the captain said it could have been something so simple as a soldier with a Hells Angels bumper sticker.
It's not surprising that soldiers would be drawn to outlaw biker gangs.
The Hells Angels and other outlaw biker gangs routinely go on recruiting drives, and, according to police, their talent searches often focus on soldiers with guns and bomb-making skills.
www.troops.ca /cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1139198394   (791 words)

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