Creating a new club?

[sportster]

Hi interested to hear everyone comments on the best approach to creating a new club.

Should it be a sc, rc, or mc, do I need to contact the main 1% clubs. We will not be running a three piece back patch it will only be a one piece patch.

[jaffaonajappa]

Why a new club? Tried the existing ones and want something different??
Mate, going off and seeking 'approval' from the 1%'er estabilished 'clubs' seems like your asking if they will Let You forma club? Proly not the best start - assuming you arent looking to compete with them?

You are talking Club, yeah? Not something else??

[Laava]

Why would you need to contact the 1% clubs? Are you going to be dealing in drugs and crime primarily? Oh I get it, this is a pisstake right?

[sil3nt]

I heard knox make the best back patches

[sportster]

Hi definitely a club only, just tring to do research on how to create a club and lots of sites say you have to ask the 1%. Most sites were in the states so this may explain.

I want the new club to be able to wear a patch without having it ripped off them

[pzkpfw]

Make it yellow and black horizontal stripes.

I hear that's available.

[Laava]

So I have a VT500 Honda. Will I be able to join your club or is there certain criteria that need to be met? Serious question.

[Gubb]

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[sportster]

Sorry must have and use as your main form of transport a Harley sportster powered motorbike.

Hog is more for the big vtwins and guys with lots of money, I think the sportster is one of the most under rated bike around. Yet it's such a versatile bike.

[Laava]

OK. There is a section here just for this thread called Hogs and other cruisers.
Me, I will ride anything I can, not biased to just one brand of bike. Good luck with that.

[sportster]

Thanks laava

[jaffaonajappa]

Hi definitely a club only, just tring to do research on how to create a club and lots of sites say you have to ask the 1%. Most sites were in the states so this may explain.

I want the new club to be able to wear a patch without having it ripped off them

Ahhh k.
Assuming ur serious, wanting a bike club only, not an outlaw or 1%er club or gang or whatever. And for whatever reason, the current clubs arent your thing.

Make a club. keep it informal - u might want to incorporate it as a society or whatever whatever one day - but perhaps wait a year or two to see if the club idea still works for you first?

In NZ, from all I have heard, no backpatch gang looks at a sidepatch club as competition or a problem. Per se. So you have no risk of your patch getting ripped off you for that reason. Ok, theres lately been a story of a HOG or Ulyses guy getting his side patch taken off him up the far north (last year?) - but this wasnt from any bike club/gang - just local pricks.

Best way to meet the current clubs and members - turn up to the rides, poker runs, that are held yearly. mix n mingle. Most side-patch clubs these days are very different from the back patch clubs,.

Dont ride a pink colored bike, no sparkly red tassels off the bars.....you'll be fine.

Oh yeah. Restrict your membership - otherwise idiots join, think theyre Gangstas, and ruin your club rep. And then you run the risk of the gangs taking an interest. Or the boys in blue.

[Laava]

Just a thought tho. If you are riding in a group and you all have patches on, people will think you are a gang. Clubs don't do this, only gangs. So bear that in mind.

[sportster]

ThanK Jaffonajappa and laava I will keep that in mind.

I have been to a few ride and while there are a few clubs out there I want to offer something new and different. I like a lot of you people use my bike everyday rain hail or snow so were about riding not just weekends

[Virago]

Dude - seriously...?