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Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009. An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a biker club or bikie club (in Australia), is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.
A mixed race outlaw motorcycle club that has chapters in at least 34 U.S. states and the Philippines. [24] [25] Club Deroes: 1971 Perth, Australia Coffin Cheaters: 1970 Perth, Australia In the 1980s, the gang was among the four dominant outlaw motorcycle clubs in Western Australia. Currently operates charters in Norway, Australia and the United ...
The Rebels Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club. At its peak in Australia, it had around 70 chapters and over 1,000 members and associates nationwide, making it the largest club in the country at the time. [1] [failed verification] It was founded by Clint Jacks in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1969 and was originally named the "Confederates".
The Nomads Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club in Australia with a large number of chapters and members nationwide. It was founded in Newcastle in 1968. A number of countries have motorcycle clubs called "Nomads Motorcycle Club", e.g. Australia, [1] [2] [3] South Africa [4] and Germany, [5] and there is a Nomads gang in New Zealand.
The Coffin Cheaters are an international outlaw motorcycle club that was formed in Perth, Western Australia, in 1970. [1] The Perth-based Coffin Cheaters amalgamated in 1999 with a previously unrelated club in Victoria called Coffin Cheaters, and later "patched over" two Norwegian gangs, Forbidden Few MC and Wizard MC, in 2004 and 2005 respectively. [2]
The Comanchero Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle gang in Australia and South East Asia.The Comancheros are participants in the United Motorcycle Council of NSW, which convened a conference in 2009 to address legislation aimed against the "bikie" clubs, their poor public image in the wake of several violent clashes and ongoing biker wars, and defusing deadly feuds such as the Comancheros ...
The Finks are an Australian outlaw motorcycle club that was formed in Adelaide, Australia, in 1969 [1] and now also has chapters in other states. The name comes from The Wizard of Id cartoon where the peasants, to his dismay, often proclaim, "The King is a fink!".
The club is considered an outlaw motorcycle gang by the Australian Federal Police. [3] Numerous police investigations have targeted Bandidos members, and implicated them in illegal drugs supply and other crimes. [4] [5] [6] Australia's first Bandidos chapter was formed in Sydney in August 1983. [7]