What's your opinion on bike clubs?

Question

are they really as bad as the media says they are or do the media blow things out of perportion? And why dont bike clubs make it on tv for toy runs how many toys they raise for kids that dont get any?

Answer 1

The outlaw type clubs are the minority from my limited experience. Most clubs I come in contact with are just regular blue and white collar folks, and many are religious based groups. In this day and age the media doesn't focus much on positive aspects of anything. Years ago talk shows had guests that had done something great or people that were good role models, now they just have some dude that got his wife's sister pregnant or something stupid and negative like that. Sure some members of the Angels, Pagans or whatever are probably less than upstanding citizens, but I certainly don't think they all are. I ran into 3 members of the Angels at an airport last year and talked to them for a while, seemed like decent folks to me.

Answer 2

i think that their is nothing wrong with them and people just think bad things about them coz their in a bike club, the media blows things out of preportion all the time just to make them look bad when they do good things aswell.

Answer 3

I really think that the term bike clubs can mean so much more than what many people tend to think of them as.  Where I am from the term can and usually means a club that runs motocross racing or another one of the disciplines in the sport.  There are biker groups that can be known as bad guys but there is many others that are biker groups who are just a group of people who enjoy bikes.  One such group in my country is the Ulysses club.  

So not all bike clubs are bad guys running around doing the wrong thing only a very small percentage are how the media describes things.