Make no mistake, the Russians are coming. Piece by piece, slowly but ever so strategically they are rebuilding their empire. Uncensored with Michael Ware, National Geographic 2017
A biker gang called the Night Wolves … pro-Putin, vehemently pro-Russian biker gang. They have clubs everywhere … and Putin now calls them his friend. ibid.
A German biker gang that swears they’ve rehabilitated and abandoned their neo-Nazi ways. Neo-Nazi Biker Gangs, Vice TV 2014
‘The Schwarze Schar motorcycle club is part of Germany’s biker scene, more commonly referred to in Germany as the Rock Scene. The criminal activities of individual members range from general to organised crime’. ibid. Department of Criminal Investigation
‘It’s more than family to most … This is everything to me.’ ibid. spokesman
‘You’re just in your zone, man. You just love it. Nothing matters.’ The Moped Gangs of London, Vice TV 2015
But these kids which you see as terrorising the roads are actually underground superstars of the street. ibid.
And even have their own merchandise. ibid.
We’re about to leave for the big ride-out. ibid.
These hairy bikers are all Freemasons. They’re known as the Widows Sons. Inside the Freemasons III, Sky 2017
Britain’s last 500 cc world motorcycle racing champion: my all-time racing legend: Barry Sheene. Racing Legends s2e1: Barry Sheene, Vic Reeves commentating, BBC 2014
He won the motorcycling world championships twice: no Brit has done it since. ibid.
‘Before I started racing I believed I was going to be world champion.’ Sporting Greats: Carl Fogarty, Sky Sports 2017
‘You need determination, motivation and aggression.’ ibid.
There was still more to come on the Isle of Man. ibid.
Ducati’s decision to sign Fogarty was a masterstroke. ibid.
‘A British racer, number one on his bike, hammering, hammering a class field in front of ecstatic British fans – that is my abiding memory of Carl Fogarty.’ ibid. Julian Ryder, commentator
Fogarty and the Ducati team brought home another world championship – their fourth as a partnership. ibid.
They have been called the Underside of the American dream. An American nightmare. They’re the original Wild Ones. In Search of History s4e8: Hell’s Angels, History 1999
A new breed of inexpensive American-made bikes. ibid.
Throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s the Hell’s Angels grow into a small network of 6 west-coast chapters with about 450 members. ibid.
The Hell’s Angels are portrayed as degenerates who storm through small California towns doing exactly as they please. ibid.
[Hunter S] Thompson accepts the assignment … his book about the Hell’s Angels. ibid.
A new scourge has emerged: moped crime. Crimewave 2018: Lawless Britain, Channel 5 2018
I’m Murray Walker, and my life is a story of obsession, an obsession with cars, an obsession with bikes, an obsession with the growl and roar of a racing engine. I’m fanatical, unreformed and unrepentant. Murray Walker: A Life in the Fast Lane, BBC 2018
And look at that! This is fantastic! ibid. Murray, race commentary
Formula 1 is my home. I feel myself come alive when I get close to the roar of the engines. ibid.
If it moved on wheels, I talked about it. ibid.
My wife says I’m not interested in anything if it hasn’t got an engine. ibid.
He crashed nineteen times. And is believed to have fractured over 400 bones. He created his own legend as death-defying showman. But behind the heroic facade was a darker story. An overpowering vanity. And an arrogance that would lead to his ultimate downfall. Pure Evel: American Legend, Discovery 2014
From his late teens he drifted into a life of petty crimes and protection rackets. ibid.
The motorcycle landed short, ripped the handlebars out of my hands, and I bounced sixty yards into the Dunes parking lot. Storyville: Being Evel Knievel, Evel, BBC 2019
Robert Craig Knievel was born on October 17th 1938 in Butte, Montana. Both Knievel’s parents left Butte, leaving him to be raised by his grandparents. ibid. caption
Yeah, I guess I was kidnapped … Danged if we didn’t get married there. ibid. wife
At the age of 19 he starts a semi-pro hockey team. ibid. Johnny Knoxville
He came up with idea of doing a stunt show. ibid. contemporary
He was given that name by the cops. ibid. #2
We were in the business of sports theatre. ibid. ABC Wide World of Sports dude
… To be something a little extra special … And live like a lot of people do that live in a grey twilight world, these kind of people they don’t even know victory or defeat, because they’ve never tried anything … ibid. Evel
This machine is powered by steam … ibid.
There from the muddy banks from the side of the river was Evel waving. ibid. Evel
Stuntman Evel Knievel got a jail sentence yesterday for beating his former press agent with a baseball bat. ibid. television news
Evel Kenievel had a game-changing idea … and mistimed the landing … Inside the World’s Greatest Hotels s1e1: Caesar’s Palace, Channel 5 2020
This is a shocking story. It could never take place in most American towns – but it did in this one. It is a public challenge not to let it happen again. The Wild One 1953 starring Marlon Brando & Mary Murphy & Robert Keith & Lee Marvin & Jay C Flippen & Peggy Maley & Ray Teal & Hugh Sanders & John Brown et al, director Laslo Benedek, caption
It begins here for me on this road ... Once the trouble was on its way I was just gone with it. ibid. Brando’s commentary
Bird: Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?
Brando: Whata you got? ibid.
There are thought to be 39 Outlaw motorcycle groups in Australia … The bikers see themselves as rebel outsiders. Australia with Simon Reeve III, BBC 2020
I’ve seen plenty of violence in my career but a professional hit like this caught my attention. The killing was allegedly part of an ongoing turf war but not between rival street gangs or Mafia crime families: these men were from rival motorcycle clubs. These clubs are a contradiction on two wheels. Proudly and loudly public on American roads. And yet notoriously secret about what membership truly entails. What’s motivating the violence? Who’s calling the shots? What does it really mean to be in the 1%? Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller s2e1: Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, National Geographic 2021
‘He was willing to kill his way to the top … Violence on an unimaginable scale.’ Drug Lords: The Takedown s1e9: Hell’s Cartel, National Geographic 2023
‘The Hell’s Angels have the street network to distribute the drugs.’ ibid.
As cocaine pours into Montreal, Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher sees the Hell’s Angels as his ticket to a fortune. And he’s soon on Law Enforcement’s radar. ibid.
Another biker group wants to muscle in on cocaine distribution. And they’re called The Rock Machine. ibid.
‘The city of Montreal was basically a war zone.’ ibid.