and Sonny Barger. Barger is an actual biker and has been enlisted to no doubt add realism to the project.

Sonny barger basically wrote the goddamn rule book for the Hell's Angels. Founded the Oakland chapter and was the brains behind the informal structure and disciplinary apparatus. It's like saying Al Capone was a common criminal.

I spent 2 years working on my own biker series/story in my spare time.... then in March I found out that HBO was doing 1%, and FX is doing Sons of Anarchy. I grew up around a bike gang in the 70s that was repatched, and received an Angel's charter a while back. If they write this as anything but evil sociopaths, with psychotic delusions of grandeur they are writing propaganda, plain and simple. The Italian mobs contracted their toughness out to bikers who subsequently grew in greater numbers. The Mafia wishes they had the ruthlessness the Banditos and Angel's have today.

I figure I have a paperweight for a decade.

The problem with being a biker's old lady is the rituals... like how some chapters have been known/rumored to share one of their "communal women" and all of them then cum on a new initiates first full member's back patch. Which is made worse by the fact you can't wash your backpatch.
ewwww. just ewwww.

Usually the chapter respects someone who is a member having a personal "old lady", sometimes no and she becomes a shared use receptical.

Then there are the truly sick things that some bike gangs have been known to do, like gang rape a teenage girl and then show up at her house and threaten her family... these stories have been told in different places. Too often.

I use to buy the "cowboys on harley's" view as a kid and teenager. Then the darker side became more apparent.

My writings were pretty raw, violent and probably would have made every biker gang want me dead if it was made. They are pure scum bags. No compunction in killing cops, jail guards and innocent bystanders.

I don't even consider them befitting of civil rights, as they are not human beings.

I've seen fluffy handle the bb forums worst. the biker's would have surely been crying.

found this.... Sonny suing you would be something scary.

Report: Hells Angels founder

sues HBO over biker series

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Monday, April 21st 2008, 1:13 PM

LOS ANGELES - The founder of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has sued HBO, claiming the pay cable network cut him out of an upcoming pilot he helped develop, The Hollywood Reporter reported.

Sonny Barger filed a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles last week against HBO, production company White Mountain Co. and the project's writer/executive producer, Michael Tolkin.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series "1 percent" originally was set at an Arizona chapter of the fictional Death Rangers, one of the toughest motorcycle clubs in the country. The central character is a biker, Misfit, sent in from a Northern California chapter to bring it under control.

HBO is getting ready to start production on the show, which will feature Donal Logue as Misfit.

Barger claims in the lawsuit that he and Tolkin pitched HBO on a motorcycle club-centered series. The cable network turned to Tolkin to create it.

A call to HBO for comment wasn't immediately returned Monday.

Among the objections Barger lists in the lawsuit are "that some characters introduced by Tolkin too close resembled or depicted living persons (in particular a character named 'Chief,' which for decades has been a well-known nickname or alias for Sonny Barger), that some actual place names used in the script were too identifiably associated with Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels (such as the primary location being Carefree, AZ, which is the town adjacent to where Sonny Barger presently resides, and that the principal character has moved from Northern California, which is exactly what Sonny Barger did)."

The name of the Chief character has been changed to Cap, the setting of the show has been moved to Apache Junction, Ariz., and Misfit now comes from Valhalla, Ore.

The lawsuit seeks to make the show's script a joint work of Sonny Barger Productions and Tolkin, and seeks to keep the program from being sold or telecast. Barger also wants compensation for what he calls the exploitation of his publicity rights.

Remember this guy from Oz? Chuck Zito (used to be on Stern's show once in a while) he is/was a Nomad's boss.
The Nomad's can float, and don't really have a fixed regional chapter. They are the muscle for the Hell's Angels. They come looking for you.... shoot yourself. Seriously.

I wonder why they didn't cast Chuck. Maybe HBO deliberately doesn't want the bad press of paying real 1%er bikers salaries???
Who knows.