i always get asked the question why is it mandatory in a one percent club to ride
an American made bike we're gonna break down an interview from sonny barger the national president
of the hells angels and we're gonna get into the route into the pioneers of this culture and why
american-made bikes are so important and mandatory and we get into it
on this episode of demons row tv and no yeah we #ghostin baby
big shout out to the ghosts and the ghostettes welcome to demons row tv the holy grail of mc
culture where we cover everything motorcycle club involved i'm sose the ghost i'm your host
for the evening and today we're going to talk about it the fascination with american-made
bikes we're going to break down a sunny barger the national president of the hell's angels interview
and we're going to get really into the history of why harley davidson why american bikes
are the brand of one percenters why is it mandatory a lot of people tell me i have a bike
that looks just like a harley it's a jap bike but it has everything on it to make it look like
a harley davidson is just not an american-made bike why can't i get into a one percent club
why won't i make the grade well we're going to get into a deep history this is the perfect video that
i feel that is not represented on the internet right now we're going to break down the history
of why the forefathers of this culture mc culture only ride american and we're gonna get into it the
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into this clip from the legendary sonny barger and we're gonna break this down piece by piece
and really get into the history of why we ride american motorcycles in this culture
you know speaking of young people in the motorcycle world particularly in the club
world there's a lot of pop-ups here in northern california new clubs coming up young guys and
a lot of them are riding metrics i always wanted to ask you how you thought about that
writing metrics european or japanese made bikes well the thing of it is
and like i was born in 38 i grew up during the second world war i want to break this
down piece by piece sunny said an important thing he was born in 1938 during the second world war
now you got to understand the psyche this is this is the forefather of one percent culture
you got to remember what's going on at that time mussolini stalin hitler japan are against
the united states so he's growing up as a kid and every day he looks on the news he's seeing enemy
enemy enemy so think about growing up at that time and then they hit pearl harbor japan hits pearl
harbor how do you think he feels if he's one of those people that is a kid and he's hearing about
pearl harbor or he lost family members or people that are part of the culture that he grew with
and is going to mold and create the hells angels how do they feel about japan at that time so you
got to think about it i wanted to bring you into the psyche real quick because if you're right now
you fast forward and you're riding a jap bike and you're looking at it like what's his problem with
jap bikes what's you know what's the old school's problem with jap bikes we're getting deeper into
the reason why you would feel the same way if you lost family members country you know members are
dying out there because they bombed and attacked our country they literally in pearl harbor killed
thousands of americans so let's get back into the clip i'm a pro-american i drive a chevrolet pickup
truck i ride an american breath quarter horse and i rode an american bike one thing i also wanted to
touch on that is very important and relevant to me he said he's a pro-american and i feel that
one percenters get a rap that is supposed to be like i know the saying no religion and politics
or whatever but this is one of the pioneers telling you that one percent culture is built
on being pro-american so us talking about what's going on in the country is one percent culture we
stem from patriots that's what our culture stems from so to tell us that we have to separate and
not have a voice and not talk about what's going on in the country and stuff like that
you're hearing it from one of the pioneers that is not what we're based on so i just wanted to throw
that in as a big to all the people that complain about politics but let's get back into the clip
and i refused not to and until victory came along i was stuck with that other american bike and
they would not say the fact we will not say the words else angels in the same sentence
those two words so i'll just call it the other part and uh but i'm very happy with the lines
but it's an american bike i have a choice now i didn't before on another note what he just brought
up about harley davidson i'm i'ma call them out and i'ma say it straight what he said is something
that i felt for a long time i feel like harley davidson has put their self above the culture
we're the ones that fund them and i feel like they don't appreciate and listen i ri i ride a harley i
got a 2017 soft tail slim i love that bike i had a victory before i felt like the victory was more
durable then harley i feel like harley is made to like for little things to go wrong so that
you can you know keep upgrading it or keep wanting a new piece but what sonny is saying i agree with
1 000 and i feel like they need to be humbled and they need to not be mentioned if they don't
want to mention us they don't want to appreciate the fact that we're the reason why people pick up
motorcycles why people want to ride people grew up idolizing sonny and wanting to be like him and
that's why they jumped on a motorcycle so harley not to recognize him or recognize any of us is a
disrespect to the culture so let's get back into the clip and the young guys coming into clubs a
lot of them want to ride these the metrics do you have an issue in your club are you still american
only well we don't everybody says we have a rule that you have to ride the other bike we do not
have that rule that's a fallacy what the thing is i say people should write what to come to belong
and for 53 years i wrote something i didn't like but it was the only american bike
hit the like button if you're getting value out of this but it's so ironic how he said that he
rode a bike for many years that he didn't even like and that's loyalty that speaks to loyalty
that's like me running around with the new york giants hat even when they suck one of the worst
teams in the league it's about loyalty it's about putting that time in you know what i mean
but it's so funny because something that he didn't even like inspired a whole culture like
you don't people don't think about it but he's one of the pioneers people grew up watching him
and wanting to do what he did and it's just funny to me that he didn't even really like the bike
that he was riding and inspired so many people and that's why i'm so big on originality and we have
to continue to set trends and not be followers i'm big on setting new trends and i feel like you
know like pioneers that's what they always do they always find a way to do things that other people
don't do and that's why it's so important for me that instead of following everything that was done
back in the days you know the same looks the same fashion stuff like that us evolving setting new
trends making some of the pioneers proud of the new trends we set and maybe even get them
to follow some of the trends while they're still here with us that's where i want to take it to
with demons road and let me know in the comments what type of bike you ride give me a pound
whatever type of bike you ride and like sonny said it's all about what you feel comfortable with
what type of club works for you but i really wanted to break this down because
i want people to understand why it's so important in the core of what we believe in
to ride american bikes and i think that even now with everything that's going on in the country
with everything being made in china this or made in taiwan that you know us taking the pride in the
bike that we ride he said even the the car that he rides is american he wears american clothes like
we need to put that money into our culture and to people if you know somebody that has
a clothing line or whatever wear that instead of wearing some foreign stuff or you know stuff
made from another country so let's continue to grow and let me know if there's any other things
that we can get deeper to into the culture because i've been doing this for two years now and i want
to take it to a supreme level hopefully get some interviews with with some of the pioneers
but let's give light this week's certified go stat goes out to alyssa marie representing florida
she's 29 been riding since she was 17. she's pushing the 2016 gsxr 750 she's part of a
motorcycle group called the shield alyssa you are a certified ghost stat so if you know anybody
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