“*most* bikers are right wing, conservative, patriotic to a fault and a wildly disproportionate number of them are veterans.”
Factual among people who love motorcycles. Not true at all regarding bandidos, and other organized crime gangs who happen to ride motorcycles.
The lamest thing ever is how normal riders love to act, dress, and organize exactly like the criminal gangs. Its retarded double think. I hear again and again how the gangs aren’t really a menace. Then I hear the same people talk about how its deadly serious to get permission of a local gang to wear a state name rocker.
Its like grown men living by a the rules of a sorority over specific clothing.
“I hear again and again how the gangs aren’t really a menace. Then I hear the same people talk about how its deadly serious to get permission of a local gang to wear a state name rocker.”
How the heck does one motorcycle ‘club’ manange to dominate the leadership roles in ALL the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents Chapters?
Where do all the dues go that all the TCofCI members pay?
Wish you’d made this post this earlier today.
I’d have asked a few Norsemen about your “facts”.
/guffaw
You poor bastard.
Once more...
The leather clothing is protective equipment. Hit pavement at 60 sometime and see how long other fabrics last (write me from the burn ward where you are getting new skin pasted all over you if you aren't wearing good leathers).
Leathers come mainly in basic black.
Patches on vests designate which group you belong to, should you belong to a group. Without them, try finding your friends at Sturgis or Daytona in a sea of--you guessed it--a few hundred thousand others dressed in black leather.
The 'fashion' similarities are practical matter, not a fashion statement, even though you would assert that 99% are trying desperately to appear like 1%.
Organization keeps the group together, provides for contingency planning, improved safety, and also provides the means to be self-policing if there is a problem in the group. VIrtually any group has this and other organizational aspects...
President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Sergeant at Arms...(OMG! It's just like the garden club!--You know those evil plant-growing little old ladies!)
Okay, maybe they don't have a Sergeant at Arms, but most College Fraternities have all those, as do police organizations and volunteer fire departments. (I'd bet they all have by-laws, too.)
These are fundamentals of organization which are pretty much universal because they work. At this point, who adopted which when is moot.