Motorcycle gang

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A motorcycle gang (also known as a biker gang, outlaw motorcycle club, or simply outlaw club), is a controversial term primarily used by law enforcement and non-motorcycle riders to describe a club or gang who are motorcycle riders. Members are also known as 1%ers (spoken as "one percenters").

Members who have been through a full initiation are "patched members"; they may, in turn, sponsor prospects.

Major motorcycle gangs include:

• the Bandidos
• the Hells Angels
• the Henchmen MC
• the Outlaws
• the Abutre's
• the Pagans MC

Other notable motorcycle gangs include:

• the Annihilators
• the Diablos
• the El Forasteros
• the Finks (located mainly in Australia)
• the Galloping Goose
• the Gypsy Jokers
• the Hells Lovers
• the Iron Horsemen
• the King's Choice (disbanded)
• the Loners
• the Mongols
• the Nomads (Australia)
• the Rebels (disbanded - were located mainly in Alberta)
• the Rebels (Australia)
• the Renegades
• the Rock Machine, Canadian affiliate of the Bandidos^[1]
• the Rogues
• the Satan's Choice
• the Sons Of Silence
• the Straight Satans (notable for having members in the 1960s involved with the Manson Family)
• the Vagabonds
• the Vagos
• the Warlocks
• the Warlords

There have also been scooter gangs, notably the Mods in the UK in the 1960s.

[edit] In popular culture

see also: List of biker films

• The Wild One (1953)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Rick Anderson, Bad Boys, Seattle Weekly, July 12, 2006. Accessed online 17 July 2006.

[edit] See also

• Bousouzoku, Raggare, Greaser
• Rock and roll, Rockers, Punk Rockers
• Teddy Boy (youth culture)