Boozefighters

Boozefighters MC
Motto "The Original Wild Ones"
Founded 1946
Location California, USA
Founder "Wino" Willie Forkner
Website www.bfmcnatl.com
Abbreviation BFMC

The Boozefighters Motorcycle Club (BFMC) is a motorcycle club, formed in California just after World War II. Today, the BFMC has chapters across America with its national headquarters located in Fort Worth, Texas. The first European Chapter was founded in France in 2006. Other international chapters include Canada, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Italy, Germany, and Belgium.

History

The Boozefighters MC first gained notoriety at the Hollister riot in Hollister, California the weekend of July 3-6, 1947, later immortalized in the movie The Wild One starring Marlon Brando.

Wall of a building with mural of a bearded man with sunglasses wearing a beret, a young man in a white hat in front of two riders on chopper motorcycles below the legend Johnny's the birthplace of the American biker.
Johnny's bar in Hollister, California has a mural featuring "Wino" Willie Forkner (left) alongside iconic personas from Easy Rider and The Wild One.

Their mottoes are, "The Original Wild Ones" and "A drinking club with a motorcycle problem." An article featuring actor Robert Patrick, current charterholder of Boozefighters MC Chapter 101, describes the club as "a nonprofit organization that raises money to help vets, children and the poor".

The Boozefighters have chapters worldwide including the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea and the Phillipines but claim no territory just history.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Robert Patrick", ABILITY Magazine, retrieved June 17, 2011

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