Homeland security now means you can’t legally enter the United States if you are a foreign national and the State Department knows you are a fully patched member of the Hells Angels, Outlaws, Bandidos, or Mongols. Apparently prospects are okay. Apparently Pagans, Vagos and Night Wolves are okay. The prohibition is found in the United [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 28, 2010
Biker books are always written by one of two categories of authors – either the “participant observer” or the “objective journalist.” The books by objective journalists are usually the worst. Yves Lavigne and Julian Sher epitomize this style; crass and self-righteous. But some of the books by participant observers like Doc Cavazos, William Queen and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 15, 2010
Men are saved by motorcycle clubs as they are saved by religion. Many men who have ridden with clubs will understand the comparison. For some men a patch is the first thing they have ever won in their lives and the experience of putting that symbol on their backs is transformative. Those who were weak [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
After a seven month trial, six members and associates of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club’s probationary chapter in Winnipeg, Canada were found guilty of 44 counts of first-degree murder and four counts of manslaughter last Friday. And today, Monday, November 2nd, the first two books about the case have hit store shelves. Copies of The Fat [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
There has been an argument over the last couple of weeks about whether a biker, or for that matter a Halloween trick-or-treater dressed up as a biker, is lawfully entitled to expect service at a diner. Or, even if a diner should be allowed to attract the business of bikers. The argument over equal rights [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 19, 2009
Four members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club pled guilty to a charges of second degree battery earlier this week in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Robert Thomas Reynolds, 39, Jason David Gallo, 37, Eric Claudio Franco, 34 and Derek Jeffrey Roy, 23, were punished with five-year suspended sentences and $4,400 in court costs, fines and DNA [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 9, 2009
Bandido Samuel “Stoney” Stuteville of Orange, Texas died last Wednesday in Nacogdoches. He died of injuries he suffered when an 18-wheel tractor trailer rig driven by Jesus Puente of Laredo pulled out of a driveway in front of him. Stuteville tee-boned the truck and was pinned under the back wheels until help could arrive. He [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 14, 2008
Charges against four members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Pueblo, Colorado have been resolved without any of the accused doing time. Daniel Martinez, 51, of Walsenburg; Gilbert Lee “Wizard” Archuleta, 54, of Pueblo; Steven “Tooter” Sandoval, 47, of Pueblo; and Jesse Lee Boling, 28, of Colorado Springs were arrested September 5th on charges stemming [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Four men were arrested and one was hospitalized as the result of a fight outside a bar called The Branch Inn on South Union Avenue in Pueblo, Colorado. Sgt. Eric Bravo of the Pueblo Police Department identified the four men taken into custody as Daniel Martinez, 51, of Walsenburg; Gilbert Lee “Wizard” Archuleta, 54, of [...]
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