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[Gary Schiltz]

Amenable (and amiable) curiosities are my kind of people :-)

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:25 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very nice! My motorcycle credentials are swamped by my biker bar
> credentials. 8^) I've been riding for only about 17 years. But I've been
> going to biker bars since I was ~12 or so, albeit mostly in Texas. As with
> all clubs, none of the bike clubs I've ever run across would even consider
> initiating me. I was an amenable curiosity to them at best.
>
> On 6/3/20 10:14 AM, Prof David West wrote:
> > I won't offer any comments or observations about black motorcycle clubs
> or biker bars filled with racists. I will offer "credentials" for voicing
> such, if anyone would be interested in them.
> >
> > I have just over 200,000 lifetime miles on a motorcycle - almost all of
> them on Harley's (A Honda Goldwing one summer, a Yamaha 950 for a few
> months, and a Triumph 650 that was my off-road bike). Spent thousands of
> hours in biker bars. Was a pre-initiate with the Hell's Angels in Los
> Angles (left before being patched because they were morphing from outlaw
> club to criminal enterprise). Wrote an ethnographic thesis and several
> journal articles on the culture of outlaw clubs. Been to Sturgis many times
> and all of the major rallies except Daytona.
>
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