Biker Club Subculture Analysis

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You look at the biker club subculture is very interesting as it is taken from an outsider's view. I have a one time in my life experienced a biker club years ago when I lived in Milwaukee Wisconsin. I found this subculture to be down to earth and nothing like I had seen in the old movies like The Wild One by director László Benedek or The Wild Angels by director Roger Corman.This sub culture like you explained are often under negative sanctions by the public, such as the assumption of them being violent, dangerous or "under investigation" as you spoke of. When I met the few bikers I met they were one a lawyer, a nurse like myself and last a doctor. I discovered as you did that this subculture is often looked upon as the bad guys but much to

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