Hells angels belgium president biography
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A gargantuan Hells Angel smiles at me. Then his gaze travels south. His expression darkens. Wordlessly, he turns and strides off towards the bellowing bikes.
I&#;m at the Bulldog Bash, the Hells Angels&#; annual festival near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Pint-toting bikers hug each other at stalls touting tattoos and drinking horns, race their bikes down the drag-strip and sway around to classic rock. Among them – and yet standing apart – are the Angels, their presence evident in the rows of black Harleys, in their trademark logo gleaming on leather waistcoats, in the clasp of hands and the murmured word &#;brother&#;.
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The Bash has garnered some bad press in the past, with the case of Angel Gerry Tobin – who was shot dead on his way home from the Bash – often referenced. Yet the Global Gathering dance festival, which takes place on the same site, has a much more scandalous history, with numerous thefts, plenty of drug use
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The beginning of Hells Angels Motorcycle Club
On March the 17th. the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded in the Fontana/San Bernardino area in the United States of America. About the same time other clubs were formed in various places in the state of California, but none of these clubs were associated neither with Hells Angels nor with each other, and most of them do not exist today. The San Bernardino charter (also called "Berdoo") still exists, although most of its original members at one time moved northwards to Oakland. This removal is probably the reason why many outsiders wrongly describe Oakland as the Mother Charter of Hells Angels MC World.
During the fifties more Hells Angels Charters came into existence.
In the beginning the charters had nothing to do with each other,
but after some years they united and regular criteria of admission
were laid down. From having been exclusively a Californian
phenomenon, the club developed internationally in
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List of Hells Angels support clubs
Larger outlaw motorcycle clubs have been known to struktur support clubs, also known as "satellite clubs", which operate each with their own distinctive club name but are subservient to the motorcycle club that has established them. They offer support to the principal club in a number of different ways. This can include providing them with protection, financing or carrying out violent acts at the discretion of the larger club. Logos and insignias of support clubs displayed as patches on biker vests may bära a similar color scheme reminiscent of the logo belonging to the principal club as a way of signifying their allegiance.[1][2][3]
With the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club being a worldwide force that has chapters in 63 countries, their influence has allowed them to maintain and producera a number of support clubs around the globe.
International
[edit]- Devils Choice MC, in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Spain and Sweden.