Table of Contents
Introduction 6
Part I The Clubs
Chapter 1 The Lost Lore of the Laughlin River Run: From Butterflies to Blood 10
Chapter 2 1% Doesn't Mean 100% White: Many Colors Wear MC Colors 20
Chapter 3 Women in the Wild: Mamas, Sheep, Ol' Ladies, and Lies 26
Chapter 4 Purple Wings…Really?: Codes, Secrets, and Anti-Everything Acronyms 36
Chapter 5 When Puppets Breed: Secret Numbers and Support Clubs 50
Part II Chronicles of the Culture 55
Chapter 6 One More for the Road at Johnny's: The Holiness of Hollister, the Sins of the Scribes 56
Chapter 7 Gettin' Chummy with Charlie: The Straight Satans' Strange Soiree with Manson 64
Chapter 8 Costume Copies to Cut-Collecting: Masking and Mocking the Monster 74
Part III Countries in Chaos
Chapter 9 The Thunder (and Blunders) Down Under: Bikies, Tribes, and Tribunal Tribulations 82
Chapter 10 What Would Mao Do?: A Three-Piece Cultural Revolution?! 88
Chapter 11 Eine Rockerlegende aus Berlin: The Enigma of Lommel and Germany's Born to be Wild MC 100
Chapter 12 The "Running-Out-of-Control-Tribe": The Strange Rise and Fall of Japan's Bosozoku 104
Chapter 13 "Putin's Angels": Throwing the Separation of MC and State to the Wolves 110
Part IV The Cops 115
Chapter 14 Taking the Shirt Right Off Your Back: The Feds' Puzzling Pilfering of MC Patches 116
Chapter 15 Toy Story Forever, Forever Toy Story: Buzz Gets Busted 122
Chapter 16 Swingin' In the Wind with the Lynch Report: The Looniest Legal Document Ever? 126
Chapter 17 Mind Games: Inside the Snitch's Subconscious 130
Chapter 18 The Paradox of the Pigs: Club Cuts with a Badge in the Pocket 138
Chapter 19 Seminar Secrets: What "They" Are Being Taught about "Us" 146
Part V Choppers, Classics, and Crusades
Chapter 20 Floating Alone: The Night Train that Took to the Ocean 158
Chapter 21 "Gimme a Bike on the Rocks, Please…": The Fifty-Six-Year Freeze of a 1938 S German NSU 164
Chapter 22 Exhuming Al's Baby: Back-Engineering the Crocker Motorcycle 168
Chapter 23 Extreme and Insane: The Mysteries of the Most Grueling Solo Trips Ever Attempted: Who Takes Them … and Why 176
Chapter 24 Captain America's and Billy's Wrecked Rides: What Really Happened to the Easy Rider Bikes? 186
Part VI Celebrity 193
Chapter 25 "Didn't Anyone Check Her ID?": The Awkward-est Issue of Easyriders 194
Chapter 26 Who Really Hatched Easy Rider?: "Someone's" Intellectual Property Changed a Generation 200
Chapter 27 Who's Laughing Now?: The Mystery of the Most Hated Biker Television Show in History 206
Chapter 28 Confessions to Murder on National Television?: Hmm… If I'm Not Mistaken, There's No Statute of Limitations on That 214
Chapter 29 "Here's Your Bikes; Oh, Hey, Can You Guys Ride?": Giving the Cast of SOA Their Keys 218
Part VII Conclusion Confusion 227
Chapter 30 Waco: Perhaps the Biggest Mystery of All 228
Epilogue: If You Fear Something Enough, You Can Make It Happen 235
Acknowledgments 236
Index 237
