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Gypsy CultureThis blog topic is a response to Daniel’s comments in the Houston guest book (March 17 … please read his complete entry for his perspective … I’m paraphrasing in this piece). It seems that young Daniel is a Dallas area college student and is doing a paper on 1%er motorcycle club’s influence on “legitimate” motorcycle organizations. His perspective focuses on the control that the dominate 1%er’s have over those motorcycle clubs (MC’s) that exist within their “territory”. Unfortunately, Daniel didn’t leave an email address so I could communicate with him directly. Hopefully Daniel will read this entry and include my perspective in his paper. Read More... 2010/04/11 16:12 Filed in:
Gypsy Culture“The Cat” has this response to Daniel’s guest book entry (March 17) about motorcycle clubs and especially 1% clubs. I would use this analogy: Daniel, you go to a major university which would be like your dominate 1% club. You have to follow whatever rules are set for you by the powers that be. You either like it or not; and if you don’t like it you can leave that university. If you stay the course, after a time you get to know the people in charge and you become accepted. This only happens after you give up some of YOUR freedoms to obtain status and respect. Freshmen are like Prospects, you do as your told. When you become an upper classman and earn respect and status you become a more dominate player in your local society.
I am a patch holder and the day that I started prospecting was a major change in my life. At the time I didn’t know it but I was on a path road that I had always dreamed of. Along the way I found out that motorcycle club life can be difficult at times … in ways I had never thought of. I ride thousands of miles a year, in many states, and riding by motorcycle is really the only true way to see the country. Read More... 2010/04/05 12:28 Filed in:
Gypsy CultureThe 2010 “Fallen Brother Run” was held on Saturday, February 27th in Rossville, Texas. The run is hosted by the Gypsy MC River City chapter and came about through the combined vision of Lifer Patchless and River City members Bounce! and Popeye. The run was originally called the “Splinter Memorial Run” held in memory of River City member Jason “Splinter” Villanueva who was killed with his girlfriend in a tragic motorcycle accident in 2002. The run is typically held on the last weekend in February to remember Splinter’s birthday on February 22nd. The run was renamed Fallen Brother when Retired Lifer and River City member Charlie “Little Charlie” Settles died in 2005. The realization that, as a club, we lose as many as a dozen members each year has really driven home the fact the we need an organized approach to supporting both members and non-members that need, and deserve, our help. The Fallen Brother project has done just that for the last five years.
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