![]() In a story that has been told and retold countless times, the rowdy presence of the Boozefighters and Pissed Off Bastards at the 1947 Gypsy Tour Rally in the small town of Hollister, California, gave birth to the biker image of troublemaker and antisocial deviant. Many of those who bought bikes gravitated into groups to ride and party together. Both clubs were kick-started in the wake of World War II when motorcycles were cheap and sold by the thousands as war surplus. Its genesis can be found with the hard-riding, hard-drinking, and hard-fisted members of two clubs: the Boozefighters of Los Angeles and the Pissed Off Bastards of Fontana. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cornerstone of the modern-day outlaw motorcycle club lies in California, long known to be a magnet and incubator for off-the-wall social movements and radical concepts. ![]()
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