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In reply to the discussion: Update on the bikers who terrorized a New York City Family. [View all]brewens
(15,359 posts)to see what I think of when I think of "bikers". I was glad it was not. I'm a friend of and do business with many bikers. These are the old school type that ride Harley's and may or may not belong to a club. Most of the bikers I know have long since given up any real club affiliation and just ride to rallies with a small group of friends.
The clubs that do show up at the rallies I attend are pretty tame. In my part of the northwest we don't see much criminal activity related to biker clubs. These old guys I know aren't running around like "The Son's of Anarchy". There's hardly enough time in the day to be that bad assed of a bad assed biker, even if they wanted to! One might be careful around any of "The Gypsy Jokers" though. I'm not aware of any recent trouble in my region from even those guys though.
Driving my blood center bus one day I saw a large formation of Harley's coming up a freeway on ramp. Traffic was light and it was only two lanes right there so I slid over and gave them the right lane. I saw it was a club called "Mother Speed" heading somewhere. Those guys saw I gave them the lane and gave me all kinds of thumbs ups and salutes. Evidently they like the blood centers and fell in formation in front and behind me. I never met any of those guys before, they are more af Pacific coast club I think. Anyway I had an escort for about 50 miles. I'd never be the slightest bit nervous about that kind of bikers.
Those assholes teaming up on the crotch rockets really bother me. I wouldn't be surprised if some real east coast bikers don't go after them and stomp their asses! They have to be organized. They can't be too hard to find.