ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
That's nothing, I sow my kids into their underwear for the winter, saves on the heating bills.
Biker gangs / "patch clubs"
- Thread starter JWH
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That's nothing, I sow my kids into their underwear for the winter, saves on the heating bills.
The same guy (Tony Thompson) has now written a book exclusively about MCs called Outlaws. Im reading it at the moment so searched to see what was being said on here. Surprised this thread was posted on only a few days ago. As for buying speed off them, i think they deal on a higher level. Like, they supply people they know and have supply chains. Low profile to reduce risk of being caught.
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Moved from that market into more on the protection side IYKWIM.
Ah right. Tbf, im only up to about the year 2000 in the book.
where the UK outlaws are deciding whether to prospect / patch over to the US outlaws or stay independent.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Some do, some dont. Iirc outlaws and HAs dont allow 'rice burners' but Bandidos do allow them. Why would you want a Kawasaki when you could have a Triumph?
We have one of each thanks
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
We have one of each thanks
Please let it be a trumpet scrambler?
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Ah right. Tbf, im only up to about the year 2000 in the book.
I know peeps in the two big ones so I have to remain very neutral, not that i'm privy to 'Business' but word gets about.
The big red one has the PR sorted, can't see Outlaws having the same resonance with the majority of the population.
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
I'm stuck in the middle got the local 81 at Sutton in ashfield and Outlaws in Derby, i'm in Nottingham.
With most of the west mids outlaws inside its fairly quiet, but Rock and blues could get interesting this year.
Or for wearing patches they hadn't 'earned'.
spawnofsatan
Down by the river
Yup you don't get those rockers easily
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.Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
I've watched the first 2 series of that fucking awful show, i've earned my patches.
Massive fuck you going out to garf for saying it was worth it lol
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
that's tall isn't it?
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Speed Triple. My legs are too short for scramblers!
HA down here are pretty quiet (there club house is about a mile down the road from me). Almost too quiet - they were by some accounts told to be a bit more "visible" a few years ago. Nice enough bunch of people when the mood takes them, but again, I've no intention of pissing them off.
There seems to be a hierarchy of clubs - from MCC (side patch and front patch) to side and front patch MC - to full blown back patch to the HA at the top of the pile. AFAIK most HA members work there way up through the clubs, hence most of the HA tend be closer to bus passes than free school milk.
To be quite honest, I can see the whole patch club scene being gone in twenty or thirty years - most new bikers who join a club head towards one of the owners clubs rather than the traditional MCC, and I get an increasing sense of irritation with the whole strutting "respect my patch" attitude. In a way its sad to see the whole club scene slowly dying away - theres very little new blood coming in, even though the clubs try not be elitest. Most of the ones I know would be more than happy to welcome spotty herberts on ratty 125s.
As to other back patch clubs, the National Chopper Club are still going strong (and still building custom bikes), Ogri MCC are still Ogri MCC and still the great bunch of larger than life lunatics the've also been (They won Scrapheap challenge a couple of years ago), the Christian Motorcycle Clubs (who look like Hells Angels, come of it a lot of them used to be HA) look scary enough, and have god on thier side. Still a bunch of pissheads
As to the Windsor HA story, IIRC it ended up with a shooting down the New Forest around 1980 ish? The last HA scrap I heard of was the '96 Rockers Reuinion stabbing (I was a MAG rep through the fall-out from _that_ particular episode).
Andy
ice-is-forming
let me rephrase that... Fuck off
here in australia atm the bike gangs are being penalised badly. because they have become nothing but a cover for crims (shock horror lol
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not allowed to own tat shops, not allowed to be patched up together etc...google it.
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/b...e-in-australia-no-sign-of-a-let-up-45176.html
)not allowed to own tat shops, not allowed to be patched up together etc...google it.
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/b...e-in-australia-no-sign-of-a-let-up-45176.html
Toby, get it right son.. the Mongrel Mob are just a scum sucking street gang.. Not bikers at all..
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
It's a rather fine distinction, you have to admit.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Unfortunately tobyjug got banned years ago for his biker gang trivia inaccuracies.
The sidecar-happy thread was wonderful, though.
HA down here are pretty quiet (there club house is about a mile down the road from me). Almost too quiet - they were by some accounts told to be a bit more "visible" a few years ago. Nice enough bunch of people when the mood takes them, but again, I've no intention of pissing them off.
There seems to be a hierarchy of clubs - from MCC (side patch and front patch) to side and front patch MC - to full blown back patch to the HA at the top of the pile. AFAIK most HA members work there way up through the clubs, hence most of the HA tend be closer to bus passes than free school milk.
To be quite honest, I can see the whole patch club scene being gone in twenty or thirty years - most new bikers who join a club head towards one of the owners clubs rather than the traditional MCC, and I get an increasing sense of irritation with the whole strutting "respect my patch" attitude. In a way its sad to see the whole club scene slowly dying away - theres very little new blood coming in, even though the clubs try not be elitest. Most of the ones I know would be more than happy to welcome spotty herberts on ratty 125s.
As to other back patch clubs, the National Chopper Club are still going strong (and still building custom bikes), Ogri MCC are still Ogri MCC and still the great bunch of larger than life lunatics the've also been (They won Scrapheap challenge a couple of years ago), the Christian Motorcycle Clubs (who look like Hells Angels, come of it a lot of them used to be HA) look scary enough, and have god on thier side. Still a bunch of pissheads
As to the Windsor HA story, IIRC it ended up with a shooting down the New Forest around 1980 ish? The last HA scrap I heard of was the '96 Rockers Reuinion stabbing (I was a MAG rep through the fall-out from _that_ particular episode).
Andy
For someone who seems to know alot about clubs he shouldn't, I would have thought you would of been taught the code. Loose lips sink ships! In other words.... Shut the fuck up and stop talking about things that shouldn't be public knowledge.
Remember, Snitches Get Stitches.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Oh, it's another laughable twat who believes that having a motorbike and being thuggish is devilishly exciting. Piss off, and don't threaten people on the Internet. It makes you look silly.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Clunk click every trip. Are you a very scary man?
