Motorcycle club

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Motorcycles of Barossa Valley Classic Motorcycle Clubs (2007)

Motorcycle club , MC or motorcycle club is the umbrella term for an association of motorcyclists and usually refers to clubs or associations . Most motorcycle clubs identify themselves to the outside world by means of a common badge, the so-called color or back patch.

history

Meet the South Bay Riders in California (2009)

Local interest groups of motorcyclists had already formed in German-speaking countries at the end of the 19th century and in 1903 the later ADAC was founded in Stuttgart as the German Motorcyclists Association . After focusing on the group of motorists from 1911 onwards, the German Motorcyclists Association was founded on February 24, 1923 in Halle (Saale) , to which 29 motorcycle clubs with around 4,000 members belonged when it was founded. The Gypsy MC , which was founded in Maryland in 1932, is considered the oldest motorcycle club in the USA . In 1924, the American Motorcyclist Association was founded in the United States and today it comprises over 1,200 motorcycle clubs. The members of the clubs initially only had a common interest in motorcycles, but in 1947 at a motorcycle meeting in Hollister there were riots by what were known as “outlaw” bikers . In contrast to the predominantly peaceful mass of members of motorcycle clubs, these have since called themselves Onepercenter , alluding to the fact that their share of motorcyclists should be only 1 percent. In Germany, the pseudo-Anglicism " rocker " was later established , which has different meanings in English-speaking countries .

Exit of a Russian motorcycle club (2012)

Types of clubs

There are clubs whose drivers come together according to the makes driven, such as Harley-Davidson, BMW or Triumph. There are also motorcycle clubs that organize themselves according to other common characteristics (e.g. restriction of membership to women). Outlaw motorcycle gangs such as the Hells Angels and the Bandidos , which can be assigned to organized crime and of which various clubs and "charters" are banned in Germany , were founded in the United States and later expanded into Europe.

See also

Web links

Commons : Motorcycle clubs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Friedrich Mevert: HISTORY / 171: In November 1949, four further federal professional associations were constituted . In: German Olympic Sports Confederation (Ed.): DOSB-Presse. The article and information service of the German Olympic Sports Confederation . No. 44 , October 27, 2009, p. 22 ( online ).
  2. ^ Sasha Disko: Men, Motorcycles and Modernity: Motorization During the Weimar Republic . ProQuest, 2008, p. 101 .
  3. ↑ a b Christian Ertl: Make the noise quieter! Pop culture in Munich from 1945 until today . Allitera Verlag , 2010, ISBN 978-3-86906-100-9 , p. 30 .