The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", "HAMC", and "81". With a membership of over 6,000, and 467 chapters in 59 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.
Hells Angels
This B-17F, tail number 41–24577, was named Hell's Angels after the 1930 Howard Hughes movie about World War I fighter pilots.
Insignia of the Hells Angels from Karlsruhe charter, with the '1%' patch on the gates
New York Hells Angels patch
An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a bikie gang, biker gang or motorcycle gang, is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.
Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009
The Hells Angels MC New York City clubhouse, with many security cameras and floodlights on the front of the building
Motorcycle club vest, Germany
"1%er" shown at the Clubhouse of the Bandidos MC, Chapter Berlin
