The Original Wild Ones - Hardcover

Hayes, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760321930 ISBN 13: 9780760321935

Publisher: Motorbooks, 2005

Synopsis

The seminal event in "outlaw biker" culture was a 1947 weekend in Hollister, California. Motorcyclists, including members of the Boozefighters club, engaged in street racing and other raucous activities. A sensationalized report of the event ran in LIFE magazine, along with frightening (albeit posed) photos of the outlaws. Was the event (later portrayed in Marlon Brando's The Wild One) as wild as reported? Or, in truth, was it even wilder? The answer is found in this book filled with first-person accounts from past and present members of the Boozefighters and others on the scene. This is gripping narrative of a now-legendary event. It's a true story that is more interesting than the caricatured outlaw legend that has grown up around the name Hollister.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

 “Read this captivating story and decide for yourself if the Boozefighters were really the outlaws depicted in The Wild One”

Born To Ride (September, 2005)

 

“The original Boozefighters done it and they done it good. Readers are therefore at liberty to just open the book at any page and start reading, put it down and later repeat the same satisfying process.”

Thunder Press (September, 2005)

 

The Boozefighter By-Laws of 1946

1: To become a Boozefighter a man must attend four meetings consecutively and be voted on by secret ballot by all members present and must not be opposed by three (3) or more members.

2: Club is closed at twenty members.

3: Initiation fee is two (2) dollars. Dues are 50 cents a week. When a member is voted in, he must pay the sum of $2.50.

4: If a member misses three meetings consecutively without a substantial explanation, he will be voted upon again.

5: Any member who is absent without a reasonable excuse from the club activities will automatically be dropped from the club.

6: If a member misses a meeting without a reasonable excuse he will be fined $1.00.

7: Officers will be elected every three months, if they are still living.

8: There will be a fine of one dollar for any member not wearing his sweater to meetings, club activities, races, etc., without a reasonable excuse.

9: Any member leaving or being voted out of the club will either remove the lettering from his sweater, or sell it back to the club.

10: It is strictly against all club rules for any one member to bring more than one case of liquor or one keg of beer or wine to a meeting.

11: There will never be any women in any way affiliated in any way shape or form with the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club or its subsidiaries.

12: If any member of the Boozefighters, or its subsidiaries, is found guilty of crapping out on his back, having the club name where it can’t be seen, or not having his sweater on when being crapped out, he will be fined $1.00.

13: No member will be completely without a motor for more than six months. If he is, he will be automatically dropped from the club.

About the Author:

Bill Hayes is one of those rare authors who abides by the age-old writing advice: "Write what you know." And for him, it works. His love for motorcycles--specifically the always-compelling biker culture--launched his writing success. His bestselling book, The Original Wild Ones: Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club, followed by American Biker (www.americanbikerthebook.com) and The One-Percenter Encyclopedia have all become classics within the genre.Hayes has served as the National Press and Publicity Officer for the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club (BFMC), continually striving to get the media to trade in their sensationalism for the truth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Motorbooks
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0760321930
• ISBN 13: 9780760321935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288