What's it all mean?
If ya been ridin' awhile ya can probably skip this page. On the other hand there's a lot of newbies out there who don't "really" know what the terms OUTLAW and ONE PERCENT mean. Are OUTLAW CLUB members criminals? Is an OUTLAW CLUB a GANG? Here's how it is. Basically it started with the AMA back in the late 1940's when a lot of veterans were returning home from WW2 and looking for something to do. Something that would get the adrenaline pumping like they were used to. A lot of them started riding motorcycles. Clubs were formed, races and other events were held and the AMA (American Motorcycle Association) was the controlling body that would sanction different clubs and events. Some of these clubs were, shall we say, a little rowdier than others and raced a little harder and partied a little harder and eventually the conservative AMA declared these clubs "OUTLAWED" from participating in AMA sanctioned events. The AMA publicly stated that these "OUTLAWED" clubs and individuals were only about 1 percent of the motorcycling community and the other 99% were, like the AMA, conservative, family type, middle Americans. The clubs that had been "OUTLAWED" hadn't really done anything bad, they just didn't fit the image the AMA was promoting. In the end, the "OUTLAWED" clubs decided they were just as proud of who they were as the AMA crowd, so in typical non-conforming defiance, they adopted the term 1%er and proudly became "OUTLAWS"! So now ya know the truth!
