Re: Do outlaw bikers have riding skills?

 

'martin' quoted:


So a rider who doesn't care to join the AMA is necessarily
an "outlaw biker"? Stuff and nonsense. And balderdash and claptrap.
And hogwash and hooey.

*I* am not (and never have been) an AMA member -- so that makes me
a full patch outlaw one-percenter? Yeah, right.

SQ

 


That was the definition according to the AMA, really.

 


IF you understood the original context then...yeah you are. So am
I...wanna make nothing of it buddy?

 


Definitions change.  When I was a lad AMA had no road racing but warned us
that racing with 'outlaw clubs' that did (like AFM) might jeprodize our AMA
licenses.  Any club that sponsored "outlaw" races (races that were not AMA
sanctioned) was, by definition, an outlaw club.

Depends.  If one fell off while AMA racing, somebody ran over his head, and
he was never "right" again, he could become an AMA official and believe that
you are.

Not all "outlaw" clubs are 1% clubs.

 

Sean_Q_ wrote:

That's they way I've always heard the story too.  "Outlaw" originally meant
"not a member of a club".  Later some of the outlaws formed the Outlaws and
ceased to be outlaws.  This goes back into the 1930s.  The Outlaws
established such a reputation that generally an unaffiliated motorcyclist
doesn't call himself an "outlaw" anymore.