Amenable (and amiable) curiosities are my kind of people :-) On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:25 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected]> wrote:
> Very nice! My motorcycle credentials are swamped by my biker bar > credentials. 8^) I've been riding for only about 17 years. But I've been > going to biker bars since I was ~12 or so, albeit mostly in Texas. As with > all clubs, none of the bike clubs I've ever run across would even consider > initiating me. I was an amenable curiosity to them at best. > > On 6/3/20 10:14 AM, Prof David West wrote: > > I won't offer any comments or observations about black motorcycle clubs > or biker bars filled with racists. I will offer "credentials" for voicing > such, if anyone would be interested in them. > > > > I have just over 200,000 lifetime miles on a motorcycle - almost all of > them on Harley's (A Honda Goldwing one summer, a Yamaha 950 for a few > months, and a Triumph 650 that was my off-road bike). Spent thousands of > hours in biker bars. Was a pre-initiate with the Hell's Angels in Los > Angles (left before being patched because they were morphing from outlaw > club to criminal enterprise). Wrote an ethnographic thesis and several > journal articles on the culture of outlaw clubs. Been to Sturgis many times > and all of the major rallies except Daytona. > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . > ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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