Over the years when I see guys going on the highway in colors I'll always try to check out what they are. Usually it's like "Brothers in Christ" or some shit LOL. But once or twice I've seen 1% clubs riding. I can't remember which one, I think it was the Mongols, but it wouldn't have been in the West, so it seems unlikely.
Growing up in Western NY the powerful outlaw club was The Kingsmen. We used to go by their club house all the time and see them hanging outside, as it was on the same street as all the bars. It was the sort of thing where everyone knew someone who's uncle was in The Kingsmen or something, but I never knew one.
They were not national, but had chapters in PA and FL, and they weren't to be messed with. They maintained they weren't a 1% club until the 2000s when a national president tried to take them in that direction more overtly, but back in the 1980s everyone knew they were outlaw. It caused kind of inter-club war between the members that wanted to remain under the radar and claim that they were legit, and the new president who wanted them to be a "known" 1% club. In 2014 two of them were shot dead outside the clubhouse we used to walk by.
Also, in the 1990s, the national Hell's Angels-Outlaws fued had a flare up at a race track in a Buffalo suburb in a massive shootout that left one of each dead. Both groups have a small presence in the area, but members traveled in for the confrontation.
Growing up in Western NY the powerful outlaw club was The Kingsmen. We used to go by their club house all the time and see them hanging outside, as it was on the same street as all the bars. It was the sort of thing where everyone knew someone who's uncle was in The Kingsmen or something, but I never knew one.
They were not national, but had chapters in PA and FL, and they weren't to be messed with. They maintained they weren't a 1% club until the 2000s when a national president tried to take them in that direction more overtly, but back in the 1980s everyone knew they were outlaw. It caused kind of inter-club war between the members that wanted to remain under the radar and claim that they were legit, and the new president who wanted them to be a "known" 1% club. In 2014 two of them were shot dead outside the clubhouse we used to walk by.
Also, in the 1990s, the national Hell's Angels-Outlaws fued had a flare up at a race track in a Buffalo suburb in a massive shootout that left one of each dead. Both groups have a small presence in the area, but members traveled in for the confrontation.
