Hells Angels 1965

[cc rider]

Thanks guys. All the articles/pics/clips are cool to see.

When I was 16 a friends' older brother started teaching me guitar. He was a clubie (I didn't quite know what that was), the folks thought he was alright but what a lot of tatts. They made him come to the door to pick me up each time. lol. I've known quite a few over the years. Various clubs, various rankings. Some intimately; socially; through my business & now at work. Some are still friends decades later. Plus like CFWB, I deal with them wkly, so to me it's always been about the context in which you deal with an individual or group. They're all very nice when I'm cutting them a good deal on tyres

No illusions. I've seen some scarey shit, but I've seen fucked behaviour from Joe Blows too.

I remember using paperbags or newspapers down the front of a rather oversized leather jkt to keep the wind out. And 2 pr of jeans in winter. I'm such a sook these days... all thermal gear

It'd be interesting to see what those early guys are doing now & what they think of modern counterparts.

And as a female... never had anything 'ungentlemanly' happen. At 20 I even got rescued by some club members (friends) when a housemate went off the rails.

Oh and Pic #22... it's a Chic

CC

[Motu]

It'd be interesting to see what those early guys are doing now & what they think of modern counterparts.

From the ones I've known and seen about, a lot still ride bikes, but aren't acting like they were some heavy 1%er in the '60's or '70's. Some are riding Harleys, but most still show a keen interest in bikes and have moved on in what they ride.

[Crasherfromwayback]

A fitting tribute.

[Padmei]

I'm nearly finished reading the "outlaws" book. Sometimes interesting, increasingly repetitive but a good insight to the rules etc.
I read some info about joining the Ulysses a while ago. I had a laugh when I read you have to be a hangaround & see if you fit in etc then when I started having a look at some of the ridiculously detailed rules I had a bit more of a laugh.
I was amazed while reading the 'outlaws ' book the sometimes anal rules the bikies had as part of their membership commitments & thought that it didn't seem particularly wild & free as it seemed.

[scumdog]

I had a laugh when I read you have to be a hangaround & see if you fit in etc then when I started having a look at some of the ridiculously detailed rules I had a bit more of a laugh.
I was amazed while reading the 'outlaws ' book the sometimes anal rules the bikies had as part of their membership commitments & thought that it didn't seem particularly wild & free as it seemed.

I always thought it sad that a person had to do the hangaround/prospect thing etc before being 'accepted' into a group.

Any group demanding that wasn't worth it imho.

Anyone wanting to join under those conditions has something lacking and/or is 'needing' something, has something missing in their life

Just like a school-kids gang works I guess - it appeals to those who want to be 'cool', to be part of a group...

[duckonin]

I always thought it sad that a person had to do the hangaround/prospect thing etc before being 'accepted' into a group.

Any group demanding that wasn't worth it .

Very good example would be Kiwi Biker Huh !!!

[duckonin]

I'm nearly finished reading the "outlaws" book. Sometimes interesting, increasingly repetitive but a good insight to the rules etc.
I read some info about joining the Ulysses a while ago. I had a laugh when I read you have to be a hangaround & see if you fit in etc then when I started having a look at some of the ridiculously detailed rules I had a bit more of a laugh.
I was amazed while reading the 'outlaws ' book the sometimes anal rules the bikies had as part of their membership commitments & thought that it didn't seem particularly wild & free as it seemed.

Ulysses ridiculously detailed rules; Go on tell us all more about them. Put some on here for us to all laugh at. More to the point ,did you apply and get turned down ?

[flyingcrocodile46]

How gay ..

[joan of arc]

To many, the glamour of gangs is the freedom that they appear to have and which many lust after but are afraid to pursue.

Those who are blindly controlled by the morals of society and this included most Americans during the 1960s do not wish for this freedom as they prefer the well controlled lemming like existence of safety, security and working 9 to 5. Consequently those who rocked the foundations of their secure lives were seen not with fascination but with the same abhorrence that we look at people traffickers today.
Possibly we have changed a little, grown disillusioned with the idea that making a million bucks, driving a BMW, living in the suburbs and having a week in Fiji is the only way to be content. So, we look at those that have never thought this way and reckon that maybe they have it right. SOA and others of the same genre came along at the right time. But the darker side of the biker culture is that life is no less controlled than that of society at large. The rules are different but no less rigid and breaking them fraught with life altering consequences.

For some, the life of a biker is a magnet, for others it would never enter their mind to veer from the safe, straight and narrow. For most of us on KB, well, we choose bits from both and lead a life somewhere in-between.

[Padmei]

To many, the glamour of gangs is the freedom that they appear to have and which many lust after but are afraid to pursue.

Those who are blindly controlled by the morals of society and this included most Americans during the 1960s do not wish for this freedom as they prefer the well controlled lemming like existence of safety, security and working 9 to 5. Consequently those who rocked the foundations of their secure lives were seen not with fascination but with the same abhorrence that we look at people traffickers today.
Possibly we have changed a little, grown disillusioned with the idea that making a million bucks, driving a BMW, living in the suburbs and having a week in Fiji is the only way to be content. So, we look at those that have never thought this way and reckon that maybe they have it right. SOA and others of the same genre came along at the right time. But the darker side of the biker culture is that life is no less controlled than that of society at large. The rules are different but no less rigid and breaking them fraught with life altering consequences.

For some, the life of a biker is a magnet, for others it would never enter their mind to veer from the safe, straight and narrow. For most of us on KB, well, we choose bits from both and lead a life somewhere in-between.

You write really nice. that wasn't being KB sarcastic either.

[joan of arc]

You write really nice. that wasn't being KB sarcastic either.

Thanks

thanks covers it but is too short for KB to be happy with so this is simply here to make the reply long enough

[flyingcrocodile46]

Thanks

thanks covers it but is too short for KB to be happy with so this is simply here to make the reply long enough

Yup! It was a good observation (and not too long) but they are still gay. Look at pictures 6 and 8 (two gays kissing), 19 (how emo) and 25 (screams gay).

[SVboy]

A patched Epitaph rider passed us yesterday thru Amberly[on a V-rod I think?] Unusual to see them these days[in regailia]....very common in the 70s/early eighties.

[Conquiztador]

Yup! It was a good observation (and not too long) but they are still gay. Look at pictures 6 and 8 (two gays kissing), 19 (how emo) and 25 (screams gay).

How did you get all that knowledge about what is gay?

[flyingcarpet]

Very good example would be Kiwi Biker Huh !!!

everyone knows the PIGS are the biggest gang in NZ......wonder how scummy got let in there ?..thats right he went to school for 6 weeks to get his patch!