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- From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: FORTUNE magazine profiles Hells Angels
- Message-ID: <BD.92Nov18164022@fluent.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:40:22 GMT
- Sender: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
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- Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH
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- Anyone else see the five page article in FORTUNE
- magazine (V. 126, No. 12, Nov. 30, 1992) on the
- business aspects of the Hells Angels motorcycle club?
-
- Fortune says:
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- The feds believe the Hells Angels and the other
- large outlaw gangs earn up to $1 billion a year
- worldwide from drug dealing, prostitution,
- gunrunning, theft, extortion, and murder.
- That's far less than La Cosa Nostra, which takes
- in an estimated $50 billion annually in the U.S.,
- but the outlaw bike gangs are more vibrant and growing
- faster.
-
- What I found most interesting is the structure (according to FORTUNE)
- of the ride. There's a drawing of a bunch of bikers on the road.
- The first two are labeled "President" and "Road Captain" then there
- are a bunch of people in a group labeled "Full color-wearing members"
- (with the next to the last person named "Sergeant-at-arms") then
- another group labeled "Probationary members" then a third group
- labeled "Associates or honorary members" then two final people
- labeled "Enforcer" and "Assistant Road Captain". A crash truck
- follows 1 1/2 to 2 miles behind.
-
- The caption for the drawing says:
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- Check you rear view mirror. So-called runs to bike rallies
- and parties remain a most important ritual for outlaws. The
- Angels and other clubs impose this strict hierarchical order
- and map out routes in advance.
-
- "Mapping out routes in advance" - they make it sound so sinister,
- yet I do it when I travel any distance whether in a car or on the bike.
-
- This sounds too structured to me. Anyone have any first hand
- experience about this. Are the "rides" really that structured?
-
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- Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH 03766
- bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu
- I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
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