Hayes - The one percenter encyclopedia: the world of outlaw motorcycle clubs from abyss ghosts to zombies elite

ONE PERCENTER... IT ONLY MEANS THAT WERE THE BEST OF THE BESTNOT ANYTHING ELSE. THERES ALL KINDS OF MAGAZINE ARTICLES AND POLICE AGENCIES AND EVERYTHING THAT TRY TO SAY THAT IT MEANS SOMETHING ELSE, BUT ALL IT MEANS IS THAT WERE THE BEST OF THE BEST.

J.W. ROCK, BANDIDOS MC

THEY ARE THE ONE PERCENT OF SOCIETY THAT DOESNT CONFORM; THATS WHY THEY LIVE BY THEIR OWN RULES.

SGT. STEVE TRETHEWY, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

IM ROYALLY PISSED THAT THE 1% SIGN IS ABUSED BY A LOT OF PEOPLE. MANY OF THESE GUYS HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE VALUE OF THIS PATCH AND THEY SHOULD NOT WEAR IT. WOMEN SHOULD NOT WEAR IT. PULL IT OFF!

LOMMEL 1%, BORN TO BE WILD MC, GERMANY

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE POSITIVE ENERGY AND POWER OF THE MOTORCYCLE CLUB COMMUNITY.

The WORLD OF OUTLAW MOTORCYCLE CLUBS
FROM ABYSS GHOSTS TO ZOMBIES ELITE

BILL HAYES

First published in 2011 by Motorbooks, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 400 First Avenue North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-4110-0

Digital edition: 978-1-61059-801-9 Softcover edition: 978-0-76034-110-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hayes, Bill, 1950- The one percenter encyclopedia : from Abyss Ghosts to Zombies Elite / Bill Hayes. p. cm. Summary: Ever wonder how the Hells Angels got their name? Ever wonder about that little demonic critter on the Pagans patch? Ever wonder about the local one-percenter motorcycle club that hangs out at the corner bar? The One-Percenter Encyclopedia answers these questions and many more. Featuring concise entries that include information on founding chapters, founding dates, number of chapters, number of members, and club biography, this book covers all the major clubs--Hells Angels, Outlaws, Pagans, Mongols, Vagos--as well as lesser-known clubs from around the world.-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-7603-4110-0 (flexibound) 1. Motorcycle gangs--Encyclopedias. 2. Motorcycle clubs--Encyclopedias. I. Title. HV6486.H39 2011 364.106603--dc23

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Editors: Darwin Holmstrom and Steve Casper Design Manager: Kou Lor Designer: John Barnett, 4Eyes Design

On the back cover: 2011 Mark Shubin

Club cut photos 2011 Mark Shubin: pages .

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THIS BOOK ISNT AN EXPOS; its an education. Its an education that gives the deviland his deaths headhis due. It gives respect and recognition to the righteous god who placed the tattooed flesh and the crossed bones into the body of modern biker culture.

This encyclopedia is a look into that creator. Its an examination of the origins, histories, legends, and current keepers of the one percenter lineage; the powerful brotherhoods that are the outlaw motorcycle clubs.

The truth is that the clubsespecially the one percenters (a term with a colorful and subjective patchwork of definitions)have carved a deep and open legacy into the entirety of this lifestyle and beyond; from the machines to the mystique to mainstream entertainment.

The influence on the machines is more than apparent as each new model years factory bikes are rolled out. The showroom bobbers, choppers, and retro-rods are assembly-line mirrors of what club brothers were hammering together in beer- and oil-slick garages in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

The mystique is the image. Whether that means tattoos needled into non-members with deliberate familiar club-style letterings and images; or embossed dealer club-like leathers and cuts; or generic skull back patches with perfectly placed rockers that read everything from Independent to Old School to John 3:16they are all essentially fast facsimiles and bolt-on forgeries of the hard patch signatures of the MCs.

And how much pop culture deals with the clubs? Sons of Anarchy and Gangland and all the other daring documentaries dont sell their high-dollar commercials and attract millions of viewers because they deal with riding clubs or H.O.G. chapters.

But along with all of this seductive love and interest, there is the fear. Its one thing to look at the big cats in the zoo; its quite another to open the cage doors.

And the locks on those doors are getting stronger.

The signs are increasing: NO COLORS ALLOWEDin towns from Daytona, Florida; to Prescott, Arizona; to Alberta, Canada, at event after event, even in the once-holy sanctity of Sturgis.

But just as the real patches are being shut out more and more, their influence is being enjoyed and displayed more and morebut at an increasingly safe level. Establishments, venues, and runs openly expose some particularly icy consciences as they hawk their officially licensed garb thats designed to emulate the very three-piece patches they exclude and ban.

Get your thrills looking at those beasts but, damn it, keep those cages closed!

But in the real worldin the wild, natural environment where the clawing, fanged creatures are born and habitate among their ownthere are no cages.

And thats where were going to travel.

This book faces down confinement and chains, ripping away those NO COLORS ALLOWED decrees to allow a genuine look inside.

Along with this books encyclopedic introductions to the worldwide population of one percenter clubs, we include sit-downs and face-to-face talks with members and associates who help make these MCs tickand roar.

The clubs on the list are not only the clubs that wear the diamond 1% patch. And theyre not necessarily the clubs that embrace either the one percenter file heading or the outlaw persona. But they are indeed a part of it.

There are truly legendary clubs like the Hessians with their 100% Hessians patch.

There are the pioneer clubs that never considered themselves to be one percenters in the modernespecially in law enforcementssense of the word. But they were the ones who rutted those trails into the promised land of MCs that now cover the globe and color the daydreams and fast-fantasies of millions.