I understood you but don’t think that it is true, people don’t mind people who ride motorcycles, but they do get uneasy around biker gangs with rockers.
I’m sure the powers that be will try to change that, soon.
As an example, a Rolling Thunder article that was posted Sunday evening was full of comments such as “OMG Are they a gang?” “Do they let gangs ride with them?”, etc etc.
In just that short time, a long-standing veteran’s ride was infected by the All Bikers Are Outlaws meme.