Intoduction

The purpose of this web site is to inform the public of some of the time-forgotten biker ways. One example is; there is a wide belief that the only way females fit into motorcycle clubs is as a "piece of club property", truth is at one time the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club and other clubs had female 1% members. 

You can search the internet, read books and watch movies and you will see many different Motorcycle Club beliefs and traditions. The motorcycle club is a true sub-culture of society, who live by their own set of rules.

There are many long-time standing traditions just as there are many time forgotten traditions in motorcycle history. Some of that history has been either forgotten or changed through the years to best serve a group looking to change history to fit that group. Sometime the history is lost in time or died out when the members moved away or died.

Just as other things in time changes and evolves so did the motorcycle club community. 

Early 1900's - Motorcycles were used for transportation and recreation, out of that came motorcycle clubs and social riding groups for fun and for racing.

1910-1947 - Motorcycle racing grew with the help of A.M.A. and along with that motorcycle clubs grew. The Hollister event brought the biker sub-culture from the back page to the front page when the event "Riot" was published in Times Magazine.

1947-1965 - Motorcycle clubs started to evolve from racing clubs to street clubs and with that came a split bigger between A.M.A. clubs and "Outlaw" clubs.

1965-1975 - The Hells Angels were key in starting to reorganize and make uniform both the "colors" and the protocols of motorcycle clubs of today.

1975-Present - Motorcycle clubs are run a certain way today, much different then the ways of yesteryear. There are many protocols clubs are expected to abide by or be sanctioned. 

The following is an informational motorcycle club related website;  www.rcvsmc.net  while this website does have a lot of good information for the inexperienced, but doesn't cover early motorcycle club history about how it started. Knowing how things got its start will help you understand why things are the way they are.

The public perception of "bikers" is as Hollywood has portrayed them in movies, as bad boys, rough tough dirty drunken brawling nomads. This perception has been in the general public minds for 50 years. In the past 30 years, many law abiding motorcycle clubs have formed across the country, which are involved in many charity causes, unfortunately that "biker" image is still there. The "biker" stigma is so strong that the law abiding clubs are accused of "emulating" the outlaw clubs. The truth is the outlaw clubs are emulating the early clubs of pre-WWII.