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....but to wear a fake club shirt cause you don't have the balls to be in a real club. really...geeze 
Well folks, I suppose it's time at this juncture of this thread for me to post my standard response about this social phenomenon known as "wearing colors", and where I once again quote a certain late, great, mustaschioed, cigar chompin', bespectacled comedian....
"I would never join any group which would accept me as a member!"-Groucho Marx
And I think it's a REAL shame a lot more knuckleheads in this world don't contemplate these wise words just a little more!
(...but then again, I suppose most of 'em probably have more "balls" than they do brains, and so that must explain why they don't "contemplate" a whole lot o' stuff, huh?!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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yeah more balls than brains is what I should have said. 
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Yes Ann Marie, I believe it would behoove you in the future to be a little more exact in your usage of this crazyazz language known as "English", young lady!!!  (...but then again I suppose if you would've been more exacting, it probably wouldn't have given me the opportunity to quote Groucho again around here, huh?!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Ok, ignorance time again
GFOD?
God Forgives On Death?
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Sorry; GOD Forgives Outlaws Don't.
Just one of their many acronyms.
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Aah, thanks for that Steve  I don't have much to do with 1%ers, heck I'm not that keen on MCCs if there is a whiff of gang mentality about them
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I don't know why people continually ascribe ethics or logic to criminals. Outlaws are, by definition, unpredictable, and while they might have a code amongst themselves it means nothing when dealing with outsiders. 99.9% of the outlaws out there may give you a pass wearing that jacket. It only takes one out of the remaining .1% to shiv you in a bar.
I would love to wear a "Lone Wolf -- No Club" patch, but all it takes is one of our resident Mongols (or "mongrels" as I like to call them) to decide that was some sort of challenge to his "authority" or "way of life." (At least SOA is a tv show--you might get a pass.) I have enough to worry about dodging soccer moms in massive SUVs and pickups...
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You have about a 1% chance of meeting an outlaw in a bar unless you frequent 1% type bars. Then there is a 99% chance he would not care. There would probably be as many people willing to give you a hard time because you are wearing a really silly poser jacket with your imaginary club on it. It would be safe though because you can get protection from your imaginary gang.
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Huh. I run into them at gas stations, motorcycle events and even friggin IHOP. Even outlaws love pancakes, I guess.
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Jist teasing you John. We don't see that logo here. We see a fat Mexican with a machete and a sombrero on the back of our local bad boys.
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The jacket really is fine. Not my style, but if someone likes it, there really isn't anything wrong with it. Outlaws have their own thing going, so I would just avoid them, but we are on Triumphs and not "disrespecting" them, so it is obvious difference.
I just wouldn't get the jacket because it isn't my own style enough.
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It's not about "respect" or "disrespect". It's about that many (most?, some?) 1%ers are morons looking for a chance to prove how bad they are.
And while I would not worry about dealing with one of them, they tend to travel in packs.
Of course I have no desire to pretend to be an OMC member, so that jacket doesn't appeal to me in the least anyway.
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Don't know about over in the US but in Aus those "morons" have to work hard and long to get the right to wear there clubs colours with rockers and take offence to wannabes just turning up with stuff like that Say what you like about them in the safety of this forum but they are not all "morons" or criminals but are all proud and protective of there club colours 
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I have to agree with you. I've actually been confronted by a group of 1%ers for wearing a leather Triumph retro jacket. They said it was disrespectful.
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I have to agree with you. I've actually been confronted by a group of 1%ers for wearing a leather Triumph retro jacket. They said it was disrespectful.
I'm not sure I understand this Mac... I mean you're riding a Triumph, right? And yer wearing a jacket that says what... 'Triumph' on it somewhere? If I have this scenario right, how is that disrespectful? You probably don't understand either, eh.
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Don't know about over in the US but in Aus those "morons" have to work hard and long to get the right to wear there clubs colours with rockers and take offence to wannabes just turning up with stuff like that
Say what you like about them in the safety of this forum but they are not all "morons" or criminals but are all proud and protective of there club colours
I have to agree with you Boof, even old grey haired riders (Ulysses) have been made to take their rockers off
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Don't know about over in the US but in Aus those "morons" have to work hard and long to get the right to wear there clubs colours with rockers and take offence to wannabes just turning up with stuff like that
Say what you like about them in the safety of this forum but they are not all "morons" or criminals but are all proud and protective of there club colours
Well Ian...I guess Groucho Marx was probably never that popular down there, huh?! Remember what I said HE said above about joining groups, and maybe the idea that more people should maybe consider his wise words?!
THOUGH, I'll take it ALL BACK if ALL of YOUR M/C club members down there "work hard and long to get the right to wear their clubs colours with rockers" by SOLELY utilizing POSITIVE social interactions, and if ALL of YOUR M/C club members down there, or at least the majority of their membership would be able to INTELLIGENTLY EXPLAIN to me WHY they should be "so proud" of "wearing their colors" on an INDIVIDUAL basis and without their "brothers backin' 'em up" by using group physical intimidation as a "convincer" in this supposed argument!!!
So, can you tell me THAT IS the norm down there with the majority of YOUR M/C club members in Oz, my friend???
I kind'a doubt it, huh?! And ya know WHY I doubt it? Because YOU YOURSELF in THIS thread said, and I quote, "Say what you like about them in the safety of this forum", didn't ya?!
And sooooo, what exactly is THAT sentence supposed to mean OTHER THAN that to question their membership face-to-face would almost assuredly be "detrimental" to the questioner's health!
(...and dude, in MY book that means, and in the book of almost ANYBODY with any ability to THINK circumspectly it would mean that anybody and any group who would feel the need to punch out OR WORSE someone with whom they disagreed IS acting in a "moronic" manner AND/OR in a "criminal" manner by definition in the United States of America, and I'll BET that's the definition of this phenomenon down there in Australia TOO!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I totally agree with you Bigbill. At our rides or meetings they attend, they always come in packs. We're an RC not a MC and there's quite a difference, from what I've heard. I truly don't give a crap what they wear or don't wear. It's just a pack mentality because they can't stand to be by themselves. Just my opinion and experiences.
BTW, I don't like the jacket either McChevious1.
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Well at the end of a ride I walked into a local bar and ordered a beer. As I sat at the bar talking to my nephew the bar tender reacxhed over and tapped me on the arm and nodded for me to turn around. Behind me were 5 guys with poll cues, then their douchenozzle spokesman informed me that my jacket was offensive and disrespectful to their club.I smiled and said huh? They were definately bikers and were wearing 1% patches on their vest. Having no weapon and having read the Art of War, we left.
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Yeah Mac, but evidently in AUSTRALIA they would've just been askin' you if you and your nephew would like the next game of 8-Ball!!!! RIGHT IAN???!!! (...and I REST MY CASE, Your Honor<--hey Ian, notice I didn't spell that word "Honor" there with that superfluous U that you guys use down there!!!)
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Say whatever you like Dwight weather they are in packs or not they decide what they take offence at and act on it , what is said here or anywhere wont change that And about being safe behind a keyboard i meant how many out there are going to front them , 1 or heaps of them and tell them they are morons , pack mentality works in all walks of life even here on this forum (with a U )
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There would probably be as many people willing to give you a hard time because you are wearing a really silly poser jacket with your imaginary club on it.
Absolutely! The most uncool, supposed to be cool thing I have seen in years. Has Johnny embroidered on the front and it should be the abbreviated form of Richard.
Biker gangs are not my thing though have talked to many of them with no issues. If they did ask me to remove my Triumph jacket unfortunately I am dumb enough to explain that that was simply out of the question (not a smart move I know but just the way I am wired).
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Say whatever you like Dwight weather they are in packs or not they decide what they take offence at and act on it , what is said here or anywhere wont change that
And about being safe behind a keyboard i meant how many out there are going to front them , 1 or heaps of them and tell them they are morons , pack mentality works in all walks of life even here on this forum (with a U )
Am I going to hunt them down and tell them they're morons? No.
If confronted by a pack? No. (I've read "The Art of War" too)
If confronted by one (without pack around)? Yep. But it won't be over some patch, since I don't care for decorations on my jacket, it would be because he's a moron. I'm a live and let live guy and as such I don't go looking for sh!t.
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Has Johnny embroidered on the front and it should be the abbreviated form of Richard.
I did not know that, now I have to change my opinion and say the jacket is fruit. Like I said before, I still like the skull and crossed pistons, but the BRMC has to go, and since it has Johnny embroidered on it, that's just gay.
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Has Johnny embroidered on the front and it should be the abbreviated form of Richard.
I did not know that, now I have to change my opinion and say the jacket is fruit. Like I said before, I still like he skull and crossed pistons, but the BRMC has to go, and since it has Johnny embroidered on it, that's just gay.
Yep Dave, gotta agree with ya there.
(....and I'd say it'd be ESPECIALLY gay if one would also spring for the matching 1950s-style POODLE SKIRT which I hear is ALSO part of this new Triumph "Wild One Collection"!!!)
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Dwight, I have 5 older sisters and I wore their hand me down cotton button down blouses growing up. No one ever noticed the shirts buttoned up the front the wrong way, but the Grey skirts with the pink poodle were hard to explain. 
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Oh, oh... I just got a Rockers patch from the Ace cafe. Is that gonna get me in twuble?
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I have been searching as hard as I can here. Have not found one single article where 1% biker or bikers have assaulted anybody for what they are wearing. Can't find a single thing. I can find rival gang shootings ect. Even that B.R.M.C. concert was just panic with not a single threat. Some promoter worried about it was all. Maybe I am just not a good surfer. Please, somebody show me where a person with an imaginary logo has been assaulted for their silly behavior. It would be very newsworthy. Jeez guys, buy a vespa or grow some well 
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I have to disagree a bit with you Ron The guy I mentioned earlier with the tattoo, the "quiet word" he received was actually a couple of punches to the face, I saw the bruises, I also had no sympathy for him at all. The AUP stops me saying what I called him None this was newsworthy, just a little one-on-one, no real harm done. I think the cops might have laughed at him if he'd reported that, cos even they would have thought the little poser deserved it
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Gangs have notoriously terrified the public by picking on a few people and getting press for it. A while back, people were getting beat up or killed if they wore a Raiders jacket, and suddenly people were afraid to buy any sports jacket. I'm sure that the media hyped people up for the ratings on some of those stories. Yeah, it may have happened, but we don't have the whole story. Maybe the person who got beat up is not the completely innocent bystander they want us to believe they are. Regardless, The fears for this jacket may be the same sort of thing. Personally I wouldn't want one, but if it was my style, I would not let media hype keep me from getting it.
Not sure if there will be a following for this jacket anyway. So might not be much of an issue anyway.
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OK, but we are talking a jacket here not a tattoo. And I think there may be more to that too.
Anyhow, I don't think they will sell very many. Anybody that buys a fantasy biker gang jacket probably doesn't frequent anyplace that won't sell tofu and mineral water.
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When I lived in San Antone in the early 60s Vespas were the bomb. If I remember correctly one could get a DL at 14 for bikes under 60 cc. FYI assaults all over the world happen every minute that don't make the police blotter, the media or the INTERNET. So I guess they didn't happen. 
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As I said earlier I like the jacket except for the BRMC. Unfortunately I think the jacket would be destroyed getting it off. Besides I'm happy with the jackets I've got. You are right about these not selling well, they'll be dumping them this summer.
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OK, but we are talking a jacket here not a tattoo. And I think there may be more to that too.
Yeah, there probably was more to it, it was over 20 yrs ago and my memory's kinda shot anyhow
I think he only got it to try and impress us lot down the pub (it didn't work ) and I seem to recall warning him about it before hand. It was also closer to the deaths head than this jackets logo is to Charlie, but was facing the other way. Which might have been the insult?
BTW he wasn't a mouthy type, so it would have been over the tat I reckon,unless it was all BS
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I thought the jacket style looked fine and was interested. I wish they had used Triumph in some other way than replicating MC colors of the past. Don't think I want that and definitely don't want "Johnny" on the front.
Get rid of the Johnny and design a classic Triumph patch for the back or something more subtle. I can't imagine it selling like it is.
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Dwight, I have 5 older sisters and I wore their hand me down cotton button down blouses growing up. No one ever noticed the shirts buttoned up the front the wrong way, but the Grey skirts with the pink poodle were hard to explain.
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