His parents were bikers

[motogrady]

Clearing out his deceased parents home,
a guy finds a goldmine of memories,
and a glimpse of how it was.  

https://youtu.be/mat_2Hiwps8?si=1cHRsQTWhSLQoWG4

[hacksaw]

Well that’s nice but incorrect .
They were bike riders or more likely motorcyclists .
I for one never heard of bikers until I read the west coast rag  easy riders. 1970’s maybe.

[motogrady]

hacksaw wrote

Well that’s nice but incorrect .
They were bike riders or more likely motorcyclists .
I for one never heard of bikers until I read the west coast rag  easy riders. 1970’s maybe.

Probably true.  
But, that’s what their kid, the guy that found the old films
calls them.  

I’ve got a feeling they, who really knows, considered themselves motorcyclists.

99%ers maybe?

[hacksaw]

100%ers.

at the time of these parents, i don't think the AMA had came out yet with designating people like me 1%.
and these days 1% is generally more taken as to mean certain clubs. my club is not !%. of course its a Philippine club so the AMA has no say. 1% i believe was reference to counter culture types in general that didnt fit AMA ideas of motorcycling.

but history is fluid these days.

[motogrady]

hacksaw wrote

100%ers.

at the time of these parents, i don't think the AMA had came out yet with designating people like me 1%.
and these days 1% is generally more taken as to mean certain clubs. my club is not !%. of course its a Philippine club so the AMA has no say. 1% i believe was reference to counter culture types in general that didnt fit AMA ideas of motorcycling.

but history is fluid these days.

That’s something to look up.
I saw somewhere, it was either Davidson himself or whoever was running the AMA at the time, that proclaimed the majority, the vast majority, of motorcyclists were good people, hard working, honest family types that just liked to ride and go places.  
99% were.
The rest, a very small percentage, he said 1%, were the Hollister event, hard drinking, law breaking Wild Ones.
Which, I have a feeling was the 1950s.

Right when these home movies were made.

[motogrady]

A little wiki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_One

It’s my understanding the so called 1%ers were mostly a product of WW2.
Guys that had survived the War, and for some reason just didn’t really want, or could, fit into the mainstream after
going thru what they had.  

Funny, if you read the link, Hollister, which happened 2 years after the War ended, was an AMA sponsored event.

[oldironnow]

Thanks for posting the vid !

[Fatfatboy]

Bikers, motorcyclist or riders. I don't think they could of cared less what they were called. They were having a good time. Really, thats all that really matters.
Just really cool that the son gets to have this and share it.

Labels. Who needs them.

[hacksaw]

i am not, never was, and never will be, a member of the AMA.
FK 'em!
the holister events were blown way out of proportion to reality.

it does remind me of the time my totally drunk pal took his bored and stroked open header harley side car rig on to the flat track up near laconia between heats. cops got him down the road a ways. he was banned from new hampshire . RIP old pal!  man those great 1% days!

lovin' this dude>

[hacksaw]

Fatfatboy wrote

Labels. Who needs them.

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depends whom does the labeling and to whom.