Motorcycle Gang's.

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  1. David Cooper

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    #1 David Cooper, Jul 13, 2019
    Last edited: Jul 13, 2019
    Is there something going on about bike gangs, I was told I had to see my manager last week, who knows everyone who has bikes at the depot, and he asked me if I was in a motorcycle gang I said no, then he asked me who I rode with, I thought feck you and said no comment, I later found out he;d asked every biker at the depot,then when I asked my mate who drives for a massive international heavy haulage firm, he told me they had been asked the same question, WTFs going on.
     
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  2. BigCLM

    BigCLM Senior Member

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    Probably jealous.
     
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  3. stollydriver

    stollydriver Elite Member

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    I have heard some prejudice if you are a 'gang rider ' that is prospect earned. I ride for myself so .......
     
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  4. MadMrB

    MadMrB Elite Member

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    Do you wanna be in my gang, my gang, my gang.... :confused: err, no that's not allowed anymore o_O
     
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  5. In my own world

    In my own world Senior Member

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    If you in a gang after work hours and it does not in any way affect the company you work for or your attendance or doing your job well whats it got to do with them. Or maybe the boss wanted to know if you knew anyone that could top someone for a price?
    Why does everyone think because you ride a bike, wear leather jackets and boots you're in a gun carrying, law breaking thug? Hello were in England, we don't go are beating old grannies for there pension. Well, i don't any more since coming out of nappies.
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  6. Alatamoc

    Alatamoc Senior Member

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    I spent 15 years in a backpactch club.
    I'm also a mental health professional. Now mostly retired.
    No way could I have disclosed my membership to my employers.
    In fact it took me longer to get my full patch than it did to convert my M.A. to a doctorate.
    Weird world.
     
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  7. DCS222

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    #7 DCS222, Jul 15, 2019
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    You ask him back... “is this an official question?” And “Can you tell me the context around singling out a minority group and checking my associations? My bike is my church and my belief system is formed around all aspects of riding... is it ‘coz I wears black?”
     
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  8. Wessa

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    Small minded people who have no appreciation of who bike riders are......
     
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  9. Timmy Tucker

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  10. Graeme_D

    Graeme_D Active Member

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    It might simply be a new case of company policy to ask about potential links to criminal activity. They are asking you more to confirm you are not in a gang, rather than trying to incriminate you.
    Basically, they are covering themselves for a future potential negative association. Likely as a reaction to current criminal activity by 'bike gangs'.

    Which aren't like the bike gangs of the past, but wee neds going around stealing things, who happen to use bikes/scooters.
    But hey, some people hear bike gangs and think of bearded leather clad man hulks out for a bit of murder down the local boozer.
     
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  11. Dodge74

    Dodge74 Active Member

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    these days you're more likely to be involved in organised crime if you ride a stupid little stunt bicycle & wear a hoody with nike trainers, or ride round two up on a 50cc scooter. When are the British going to catch up with the rest of Europe & realise bikers are usually people who have jobs/careers or are retired & are mostly respectable people who have a spirit of adventure , this country is still living in the past . Mods & Rockers went out about the same time as everything else we seem to be clinging onto , ie. England winning the world cup
     
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  12. MadMrB

    MadMrB Elite Member

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    Even when I first started riding in the 80's the bikers were usually the most decent people, and pubs frequented by bikers were usually the safest places with the least trouble.
     
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  13. Alatamoc

    Alatamoc Senior Member

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    Let's not be too rose tinted spectacles about this.
    As I'm sure I've said before, I rode with a backpatch club for 15 years.. in fact I left only a few months back.
    The reason I left was more or less because of the increasing demands for gang related activity....
    That includes violence and generally intimidating behaviour.
    I wasn't prepared to go along with that.
    If you earn a backpatch it comes at a price....it's not a reward for good behaviour.
    Sorry, but let's not romanticise this.
     
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  14. Alatamoc

    Alatamoc Senior Member

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    Big big difference between an informal bunch of friends riding bikes and a patch club.
     
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  15. MadMrB

    MadMrB Elite Member

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    Yes, spent many a good night at the King Billy. In the 80's there used to be loads of bikes, good bands, and good people. The only time I saw any trouble in there it was sorted out very quickly and the instigators were ejected by the other customers (bikers). I've not been there for about 8 years, but it was still pretty much the same last time I did go, but unfortunately without the lineup of bikes outside.
     
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  16. Alatamoc

    Alatamoc Senior Member

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    I think that sort of echoes my own experience....when I prospected for my club it was a lot more relaxed...true you needed to be the right sort but nobody expected you to do bad things to other people.
    Shame,but aim sorry to say those days have definitely gone.
     
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  17. Judd Dredd

    Judd Dredd Giver of Drugs, Vaccines and Hard Truths

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    Have you seen who lives in this asylum for the motorcycling insane?
     
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  18. Katies Grandad

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    You mean like Sweden?
     
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