Myrtle Beach Rally Rebounding
Myrtle Beach Bike Week, which for years was one of the six major biker rallies of the summer, began today. Realistic local businessmen expect the event may attract as many as 125,000 bikers. The event...
View ArticleFrisco Angels Raided
There was another intelligence gathering raid on a Hells Angels clubhouse in the darkest hour before dawn today. This time it was the Frisco charter clubhouse located in a residential island mostly...
View ArticleBerkshire Murder Case Lurches On
In the way of American justice, the cases against the three men associated in the public mind with the Berkshire County charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club simply will not end. In August 2011...
View ArticleOngoing Gypsy Joker Investigation
There appears to be an ongoing ATF investigation of the Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club in Oregon and it appears to be coming apart at the seams. There are indications that the operation remains active...
View ArticleCHP Chooses Harley
The California Highway Patrol is replacing the BMWs in its patrol fleet of 415 motorcycles with Harley-Davidson Electra Glides. At the turn of the millennium the CHP was riding Kawasaki KZ1000s. The...
View ArticleHells Angels Film
There is going to be another attempt to make a film about the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. According to multiple published sources, Rob Weiss will adapt Sonny Barger’s memoir Hell’s Angel: The Life...
View ArticleMemorial Day 2014
As even President Obama may eventually understand, the full cost of war is never paid until decades after the shooting stops. The true cost of America’s wars is what one scholar has called the...
View ArticleRolling Thunder 2014
About three thousand years ago a blind skald in what would eventually be called Greece began to recite two poems. The poems are now called the Iliad and the Odyssey. And, what Homer said remains...
View ArticleZien Versus Harley
Dave Zien the former Wisconsin politician and loco long rider who once put 31,000 miles on his motorcycle in 31 days is feuding with Harley-Davidson. Since the photo above was taken Zien has grown a...
View ArticleThe Other Myrtle Beach
There are two biker weeks in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina every Spring. One is mostly attended by middle-aged, white bikers on Harleys. The other is mostly attended by young black revelers on sport...
View ArticleAmaro Gets Life
The poker run shootout in Winter Springs, Florida on September 30, 2012 claimed another life this morning. Judge Jessica Recksiedler sentenced Victor Manuel “Pancho” Amaro to spend the rest of his...
View ArticleMister Merrill Collins
Mister Merrill Collins, the Maryland Sergeant at Arms for the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club, died suddenly and unexpectedly on the eve of Rolling Thunder, May 24, while camping with his Red and Black...
View ArticleSOSMC Party Cancelled
The “We Ain’t Playing Possum Party” scheduled to begin tomorrow and sponsored by the Eastern Iowa chapter of the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club was cancelled this week, mostly because Muscatine County...
View ArticleAngels Indicia Banned In Berlin
As of last Wednesday, May 28, it is a crime to wear or display the name “Hells Angels” or the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club’s death head logo in Berlin, Germany. The ban applies to vests, tee shirts,...
View ArticleCurbing John Carr
For at least 16 years an apparently psychopathic federal agent named John Carr has been framing innocent men. In his memoir Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated...
View ArticleOnly One Remains Charged With DD Murder
Twenty-one months after a member of the Gulf Coast chapter of the Devils Diciples Motorcycle Club named Samuel Henry Dixson (photo above) was found dead in a ditch near the Styx River in Alabama only...
View ArticleTracking Kaos: A Sidebar To Curbing John Carr
Paid confidential informants are indispensible to the entrapments this page recently discussed in an article titled “Curbing John Carr.” On at least some occasions, if not as a matter of routine, these...
View ArticleUpdating The Steve Veltus Story
Among the most disturbing aspects of Steve Veltus’ career as a professional snitch is the extent to which authorities have repeatedly protected him from the consequences of his criminal conduct. This...
View ArticleFlying Free
Sixty-seven years after the Hollister “Riot,” motorcycle outlaws have evolved from being merely interesting news to becoming an historical necessity. Men simply cannot submit their bodies and their...
View ArticleWanna Get Away
Another reality television show needs a biker. J.P. Garzone, who has previously worked as a casting associate with the Fox series Kitchen Nightmares, is now casting a show called Utopia. Garzone...
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