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{{quote|''When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets.''|'''Official motto of the Hells Angels'''}}

 

 

The classic outlaw biker is a big, burly, grizzled man wearing a leather jacket and riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle. (The real Hells Angels ''exclusively'' ride Harley -- owning one is a prerequisite for membership.) Outlaw bikers almost always belong to a biker gang. Members of biker gangs wear the colors of their gang: a vest over their jacket that displays their gang name, insignia, and area of operation. Most gangs also have a system of patches that indicate members' various accomplishments and duties. White supremacist beliefs and symbols, while fairly common, are not ubiquitous. Female outlaw bikers are called "mamas" and tend to occupy a second class position. Bikers live for wild parties and extremely hard drinking. They support their nomadic lifestyle with the drug trade. Classic weapons of an outlaw biker include clubs, chains, and knives. Many real-world bikers carry large maglights because legally they are not considered weapons. The best way to piss off a biker is to wear your own "colors" displaying another gang's turf as your home city. The ultimate crime, however, is [[Motorcycle Dominoes|knocking over their motorcycles]].

* In the Oscar-winning short film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177023/ "My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York"], a woman from the Midwestern U.S. visits her college-age daughter in New York's Lower East Side (where the real Hells Angels have their NY chapter).

* Kinda subverted in the 1968 cult film ''Hells Angels on Wheels'' as it provides a pretty realistic portrayal of the Hells Angels: hard-partying, nihilistic and provocative outcasts who mean no harm but whose provocative behavior leads them into trouble, to which they immediately retaliate with fists and chains. Hells Angels president Sonny Barger even worked on the filming as an advisor.

* Averted in one of the most famous motorcycle films, ''[[Easy Rider]]''. The two main characters are chopper-riding hippies who travel into the [[Deep South]] and run tragically afoul of violent [[Good Ol' Boy|Good Ol Boys]].

* ''[[Hell Ride]]'', Quentin Tarantino produced, and very Tarantino-esque movie about a [[Mob War|Gang War]] between Victors MC and the 666ers MC.

* [[Truth in Television]] to the degree that outlaw motorcycle gangs do in fact exist and have spread across the world. Outlaw gangs are often highly active in the drug trade, well-armed, and very violent. Some of the more infamous incidents involving biker gangs include:

** The Altamont Free Concert, where Hells Angels provided security and have been blamed for agitating the crowd, which ultimately resulted in a young man drawing a gun and getting stabbed to death by an Angel.

** Incidents in the Scandinavian gang-war between Hells Angels and their rival Bandidos have included RPG's being fired at rival houses.

** In 2006 six Canadian Bandidos and two associates were killed near Shedden, Ontario. Six other Bandidos were found guilty of the murders while a seventh testified against them. The six convicted bikers included a neo-Nazi, an ex-police officer and a black belt martial artist. The killings were an internal feud between the Toronto and Winnipeg chapters that escalated out of control, with the disarmed victims being executed one at a time.

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