Biker gangs / "patch clubs"
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weltweit
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tbf it is that way just being a biker or ex biker, once you establish that you know what a JAP1000cc vee twin engine is, what Vincent Black Shadow's are selling for, how old Pan Head engines are, how easy it is to wheelie or stoppie a Naked Bandit 1200, and how surprisingly small an XS1100 engine in a chopper looks, you have usually broken down the barriers and find you have plenty in common.
Plus bikers are not like cagers. Have you ever seen cars stopped at the side of the road to help another motorist who has broken down or had an accident, usually they just drive right by even if they have the same make and model of the car in trouble. Bikers usually do stop for other bikers in distress to see if they can help out.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
Most probably do granted, but I've had plenty of experience of people offering help because they were ex-owners of the same car (moggy minor) and a lot of caravaners do too. I've also had several people pull up and ask if I was ok in my old transit camper and my merc motorhome
weltweit
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I think if you are driving something unusual then people with knowledge of it may feel more camaraderie with you than just any other motorist, and perhaps caravaners or RV owners share that point of view with others also.
But if you stop on a bike, anyplace where there are other bikes, there seems to me to be instant animated chat! if you know what I mean.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'cagers'
you have a special word for car drivers
you have a special word for car drivers
weltweit
Well-Known Member
It is a bit of an Americanism. Not used much here.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yeah, prospects are just skivvies for the full patches. You basically have to do whatever a full patch asks of you (clean their bikes, fetch their beer) and this can last anything from a month (although unlikely) to eighteen months or longer with no guarantee that you'll make the grade at the end of it.i'd fucking *expect* a piece of the action after almost two years of licking someone's boots for them.
So hold on . . . wearing a patch just means / displays for all to see that you are the type of guy that's have been the house boy / skivvy for some douche for several months for the sake of a . . . patch?
pissflaps
i've got a headache in my pants...
anyone who regularly uses two wheels to get around is familiar with this expression.
I'm sure you'd get a solid kicking if you tried to break into their club house or something. It doesn't make them hardened professional crims or anything. Not the uk ones, anyway, who spend a considerable amount of time promoting their cuddly, charity toy run image. They don't get to have it both ways. They're either crims, or nice guys in leather on big bikes.
weltweit
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Some lads I grew up with wanted to start their own club. They had patches made and went to a hells angel festival at which there were proper "gang" members. I think the idea petered out sometime after that and was never mentioned again.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
weltweit
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A recovering heroin addict I know told me the trade in his area (part of London) was totally controlled by the local biker gang.
pissflaps
i've got a headache in my pants...
that;s cos you aint earned your hi-viz yet, prospect.
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
I'm finding that doubtful tbh, especially in London, not that many 1% clubs there, the big red machine wouldn't touch brown with a bargepole (infact no iv use used to be in the rules for that particular club) and the other club i'm thinking of is too small to have any control on the drugs trade in an area.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Maybe I am mistaken then, it was definitely what he told me though, it would have been 20 years ago when he was using.
gentlegreen says it all the time TBF.
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Hard to say mate, I can only go off what I know of the clubs concerned, sounds silly, but brown has always had a big stigma with the big Mc's (Apart from sonny flogging it back in the day) An addict is liable to put himself before the club, which is a big no no so you get one chance to clean up and that's it. Club comes first over anything, family, friends whatever, hence the need for prospecting.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I may well have gotten the story wrong somehow then. Are you in a club yourself spawnofsatan?
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Nope, know a few who are and had the chance about 20 yrs ago, but it wasn't the life for me. Not even riding at the moment.
I know the HA have open nights at their clubhouses (well the local lot do anyroads) so if anyone is that interested, pop in!
I'd struggle to believe that, just from what I've read about uk heroin trade. Isn't it Turks, yardies and Pakistanis, dealing with import? With a general mish mash of cultures, homegrown and immigrants, dealing with mid level and front lines? Wouldn't be surprised if there were a few HA types doing some mid level stuff, but I suspect the majority stay out of that game.
One of the Wessex (Reading HA chapters name - it's not even a real place, ffs...) got done for shifting coke a few years back. Was ounces, if I remember rightly. No doubt a significant police operation to bust him - if the others were involved they would also have been caught.
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Not heard of the Yard connect, but yeah the other two mentioned for sure, not many bikers where the poppies grow...
Pretty much. They're a good indicator of a misogynist cunt as well though.
Maybe not so much the dark, but moving coke in from Jamaica, re the yardies. Mules transporting it after it gets diverted from South America to the West Indies (mostly into the US, presumably, but with a healthy amount sent here...).
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Ah, knew they always shifted a lot of white, but hadn't heard of them importing brown ( Which would probably be tar anyway, knowing their connects)
mr steev
magic thought wizard
I think if you are driving something unusual then people with knowledge of it may feel more camaraderie with you than just any other motorist, and perhaps caravaners or RV owners share that point of view with others also.
But if you stop on a bike, anyplace where there are other bikes, there seems to me to be instant animated chat! if you know what I mean.
I'd say it's the same. Just there are a few more bikers around than morris minor owners iyswim.
discokermit
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have a wash, you smelly cunt.
pissflaps
i've got a headache in my pants...
DaveCinzano
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1%er
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What do you think about MC's (self named 1% outlaw clubs) that have more rules and by-laws than the US Constitution and the European charter of human rights put together? Why do so called outlaw MC's need to have all these rules?
8 years later, you div.
