so are these motor gangs an offshoot of the SS or are they just a bunch of pai kias that happen to ride bikes.
Anyway you could just gather a bunch of frens together and give yourselves a name.
Well, in the seventies the media used the word "Hell Riders" to describe motorcycle groups. Sounds like a terrifying name to depict a group of teenagers who got together on their scooters and cubs on weekend outings. Most of them were army camp friends, schoolboys (like me), some mechanics and ordinary blokes who held regular jobs on weekdays who enjoyed the freedom of mobility during their leisure hours. As far as I remember, we rode spiritedly, take corners as fast as our skills (or hotheadedness) will allow, and those who had some money would ride the sport models. There was no gangland activity, harassment of straight citizens, deliberate vandalism, or gang wars (unlike the Hell's Angels, Outlaws, Pagans, Mongols, Rebels in the West). Some of them might have given themselves names (don't know any that were famous) but it was mostly very tame activity (like drop in to barbecue parties along East Coast, or visit other friends fishing at Tampines Pond), or simply going to midnite movies and hangout at sarabat stalls. Obviously there was some racing among the members, which is natural. Basically, it was just youthful good times in an industrial society, and the main enemy were the Traffic Police.
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