The Pagan’s pride themselves in being the most violent motorcycle gang in the United States. ibid.
The Purple is Meth at its purest. ibid.
The Mother Club is what the gang calls its Board of Directors. The Mother Club sets national policy and club conduct. The Chapters fall under its rule. ibid.
The quickest way to get a beating is to show disrespect for Pagan colours. ibid.
73 Pagans went to prison. No-one talked. ibid.
The Pagan’s have remained unchanged for most of their existence. Violence continues to be their trademark. Unlike the Angels, the Pagans never went for size. ibid.
They are outlaws, old school bandits. They’re the most violent biker gang in the American west. They have one true enemy – the law. The Sons of Silence are united in rebellion. Gangland s4e8: Silent Slaughter
The Sons are 1%ers. ibid.
They have thirty-six chapters worldwide. ibid.
They are pathologically anti-authoritarian. ibid.
The Sons of Silence declared war on the Outlaws and began to hunt them down. ibid.
In addition to enforcers, every Chapter has a president, a vice-president and a treasurer. ibid.
It’s a war with no end in sight. Being fought between two of the most dangerous gangs in America. At stake control of northern California, pride and domination. The Hell’s Angels and the Mongols are locked in a battle to the death. Gangland s4e12: Biker Wars II
Making money by dealing drugs and defending their turf by any means necessary. ibid.
The Mongols began expanding their territory in California. ibid.
The Mongols who are outnumbered by the Angels five-to-one began recruiting from a brutal gang – the Surenos. ibid.
One motorcycle gang rules the US/Canadian border with an iron fist. Their reign is fuelled by sheer terror. The Hell’s Angels will do anything to eliminate their competition. They’ll stop at nothing to control the flow of drugs into the US. Gangland s5e7: The Death Head
[Their] empire has spread to nearly every part of north America ... 124 active chapters and 1,300 members. Their expansion has created a lucrative drug market. ibid.
They blazed a bloody trail. They’re a mob-like gang of killers. With a vicious dictator at their centre. They’re the Breed Motorcycle Club and they’ll stop at nothing. Gangland s5e10: Evil Breed
The Breed formed in 1965. ibid.
Their two hundred members are spread across the north-east and mid-west. ibid.
The Breed also sold and used Methamphetamine. ibid.
They rule California’s open roads. Renegades with bad intentions. Give them respect. Or pay the price. They are Vagos. Gangland s6e1: Snitch Slaughter
The gang’s most lucrative business – trafficking stolen motorcycles. ibid.
They rounded up twenty-five members in a pre-dawn sweep known as Operation 22-Green. ibid.
It’s on in the Motor City. And one gang has declared war. They are the Devil’s Diciples [sic]. Gangland s6e7: Devil’s Diciples
Dealing drugs isn’t their only vice. These gangstas reject society’s laws. ibid.
In addition to their house-mouse, members are allowed a certain number of girlfriends ... Women are never more than second-class citizens. ibid.
In the heartland one gang rules the road. To these outlaw bikers there are no rules. Proceed with caution: the Galloping Goose is closing fast. Gangland s6e10: Beware the Goose!
Kansas: they know this city is owned by one of America's oldest outlaw biker gangs: the Galloping Goose. ibid.
The gang is small and ultra-secretive. ibid.
As long as there’s motorcycles, as long as there’s people want to ride them, we’re gonna have brothers. Now I could be dead and gone and this thing will still be here. Grub
I don’t need you. I don’t need society. Slow Joe, Florida Warlocks
I love a good fight. Big John, president Florida Warlocks
Be a man. That’s all. Big John, president Florida Warlocks
Respect Few Fear None. Mongol credo
We are Mongol raiders! We are raiders of the night! Mongol meeting chant
We’re dirty sons of bitches! We’d rather fucking fight! Mongol meeting chant
We’re the ones your mom said to watch out for. We’re the ones that you have to hide your daughters from. Ruben Doc Cavazos, Mongols national president
The ATF saw the we could infiltrate by using long-term undercover operations with groups such as the Warlocks. Stephen Martin, ATF special agent, codename Easy Rider
A midsummer’s day in Shakespeare’s country in the heart of England. On a major motorway two bitter rivals collide. An execution style killing in the fast lane. Real Crime with Mark Austin: Fallen Angel, ITV 2011
August 12th 2007 and the M-40 ... is heavy with traffic ... A man had been shot on the motorway. When police arrived minutes later they found a biker dead on the road ... a Hell’s Angel Gerry Tobin. ibid.
From the Angels came a wall of silence. ibid.
Tobin had been riding home after one of the biggest events in the Hell’s Angels calendar – the Bulldog Bash. A three-day jamboree. ibid.
The Hell’s Angels were formed in America in the 1950s ... But they are only one of the outlawed biker groups operating in the UK today. Others include the Devil’s Disciples, the Barbarians and the Patriots. In all there are believed to be around 25 active clubs with as many as 1,500 members, the biggest of which are the Outlaws. ibid.
To become a fully patched member you have to endure two years of probation. ibid.
They’d found the murderer’s car ... This vital information gave the police a name: Sean Creighton ... The undercover police surveillance focused on the Warwickshire Outlaws. ibid.
European News: Car-bomb killing in suburbia rekindles Denmark’s bitter biker-gang violence. ibid. newspaper article
In Norway a Scandinavian biker war broke out between the Hell’s Angels and the Bandidos. ibid.
All seven defendants were found guilty. ibid.
For what? A patch on his clothing. ibid.
To some the sixties will always be being a Mod or a Rocker. Suggs, Teen Spirit: The Mods and the Rockers, 2016
The Mods: clean-cut sharp-looking threads, listening to soul, ska and some of the greatest British pop music ever made, riding about on their Lambrettas and Vespas. The Rockers with their leather jackets, jeans, greased-back hair, tearing around on their powerful motor-bikes to the soundtrack of American rock-n-roll. Needless to say, there wasn’t much love lost between them. ibid.
Unfortunately, a lot of people remember the Mods and Rockers solely for the bank-holiday scuffles at the seaside. ibid.
Being a Mod meant dressing well in fancy clobber. ibid.
Carnaby Street – it was right here in the heart of London that so many came to buy the latest Mod gear. ibid.
The loose-fitting hooded Parka – how did they factor into the neat, sharp look of the Mod? ibid.
Rockers: theirs was a world of leather jackets, jeans and transport cafes. ibid.
The bikers were a noisy powerful symbol of all the rockers stood for. ibid.
Rockers were just as comfortable hanging on the back of a Gold Star. ibid.
For the wider public these coffee-bar cowboys were an intimidating threat to society, which wasn’t always the case. ibid.
The Ace Cafe on the North Circular road in London. ibid.
The soundtracks to their lives were also poles apart. ibid.
What really revved them up was some good old fashioned rock-n-roll. ibid.
Courtesy of the British press it soon became Mods versus Rockers. ibid.