The History and Evolution of "Bikers"

After trolling through hours of archives I've managed to piece together a slightly accurate and informative package which includes some great old footage on the history of bikers, their lifestyles and culture.

[@Hollz811]

The narration makes me so proud to be Aussie!

[@mikejones-go8vz]

As a kiwi, nothing pleases me more than this Aussie narration, R.I.P. Sir Les Patterson one of the best

[@1couple2bikes]

I find myself annoying...

[@floydkingi4364]

Aussie Larrakin narrator, Bon Scott will be proud!

[@AgentJayZ]

On the chalkboard, the heading "Strine" has me still chuckling. From Canada.

[@glvarner]

Great content. Great narrative. Your choice of phrases cracks me up. I think your historic review is spot on. Thanks for the video.

[@1couple2bikes]

Good onya mate!

[@robertbruce1887]

Loved the comical & profane Aussie narrator, and couldn't believe how outrageous some of those movies were. GREAT film footage!

[@Martin-rn9oo]

Brilliantly narrated with loads of vintage film clips .

[@cybair9341]

The Aussie accent is so thick I had to put the subtitles ON. Great video ! 🙂

[@larry-the-weekend-explorer]

Great video, i really enjoyed it, you have a outstanding way of describing events, great story teller, keep making video's for us to enjoy.

[@apexxxx10]

*Outstanding!... Thanks. Greetings from Bangkok. I was born in Suomi-Finland. Resident in sunny tropical THAILAND Johnny BikeSanooK/CarSanooK*

[@mookyzook]

I love this humorous and actually quite accurate look at motorcycling. Lived through a lot of it myself as I first passed my test in 1969. The narrator is brilliant...

[@1couple2bikes]

Thanks for that mate. Loving the positive feedback!

[@tonylorain4809]

Hollister the beginning of fake 🤥 news!! Loved every minute of this video!!

[@relevation0]

Fake news been used since the beginning of time

[@simonapeters4372]

Yeah just like fox fake news the people who got sued for lying about the voting machines who took the court and lost

[@Road_Rash]

Good content...I love old school biker footage...always Fun! 🖖🏿😎👍🏿

[@edwardjohnson5331]

Great bit of history on the Cook County Outlaws ,Chicago Outlaws ,Outlaws and the history of their patches as well .

[@1couple2bikes]

I learned a lot when looking into this, cheers mate.

[@johnstocker6728]

The wild one is what gave all bikers their image.

[@moorefacts6605]

The Yellow Jackets were the racing club off shoot of The Boozefighters. Ernie Roccio was a part of it and eventually went to England to race for the Wimbledon Dons during the early 50s.

[@ananda_miaoyin]

Very entertaining and well researched. Good work, mate.

[@1couple2bikes]

It's a bit tricky to find much in the way of unbiased info on this topic.

[@mmoon3172]

Very well made thanks mate!!!

[@beazerthebiker]

Just subbed!! Commentary is hilarious!!!! Keep up the good work

[@B_kiz]

GREAT documentary! Cool pics and I love the narration 🤣

[@leighroyJP]

Awesome mate, loved it!

[@Canuck_213]

Narration was spot on. Thanks for sharing.

[@dt3963]

This is the best narrating I’ve ever heard in my 34 years of human existence

[@raxzyamalaya1602]

Thank you sir for the wonderful docu

[@johnbailey7331]

Nice! Great script and narration!

[@lhasaroadrat9374]

Well done and very funny!

[@normangraber1047]

Started riding in 1964, it's been a hoot to watch the sport change. Your video was absolutely great and way more accurate than most.

[@1couple2bikes]

Cheers mate!

[@bil19631963]

Excellent video.🎉 After 42 years always on 2 wheels on the road. L+ R from Greece...keep on riding..

[@danielkeel9265]

Onya, Lee Marvin!

[@daves6851]

Nicely done.

[@kennethlindahl9206]

I have always ridden Hondas I am not a bad a$$ biker but you meet the nicest people on a Honda I have a 72 honda XL250 and a shadow 750 aero and a CB750c I have owned a goldwing and 3 CB750f and one CB900f ( the only thing faster than that 900 was a speeding ticket )

[@ratlips4363]

That image of the guy on the bike surrounded with beer bottles appeared in LIFE magazine, note TIME

[@johnhawden4118]

enjoyed that, cheers from the U.K.

[@stephenrobbins9901]

Brilliant effin loved it😊

[@davidmuir6849]

Fantastic ,thanks for sharing mate . Regards Dave from Scotland

[@1couple2bikes]

Onya Dave from Scotland, regards jack from Oz!

[@davidfinding7960]

Love the deadpan delivery/humour the aussies have, top doc!

[@1couple2bikes]

Onya Dave!

[@davidallen7540]

Class video 👍

[@duncanjowett5575]

It's late. Bed time. I'm 1 minute 2 seconds in and already laughing. Maybe half an hour more.

[@Kiwi_Fruit_Fruit]

i enjoyed that...cheers mate

[@KOACAINE]

Long live Lee Marvin !!!

[@alanrogers8535]

Fab man...! Good video.

[@TrailThug]

Great Clip.

[@nigel-rs6ny]

brilliant great video

[@TheSimba1960]

I loved those B-movie biker films. They used to have all night showings of them at our local cinema. It was a riot

[@gixerloon]

Mate that was funny, I enjoyed that immensely, I've also seen the scene change over the last 40+ years, when I started riding in 1978, bikers were generally a kindred spirit, if you broke down one would stop to help, and you'd get a nod from a passing biker, nowadays thats pretty rare, as "biking" as you say become a wannabe thing, it seems, now whether the likes of Charlie and Ewan have done that made it more accessible to the masses I don't know or even if thats a good thing or not tbh !!! I worked in a bike shop a few times over the years, and the last time about 10/12 years ago, we'd get all these wannabe newbie bikers coming in, mainly 40+ somethings, with a few quid in their pockets from being an accountant or some such, and decided they eventually want to get a bike, because as a kid mummy wouldn't let them, they would buy gear, and they'd spend £50-100 UK on a basic pisspot helmet, yet when you asked what bike they'd bought it generally was a £20K+ Harley, or Indian... just incredible 🙄 but then a biker newbie or not is another person on 2 wheels, which can't be bad.

[@1couple2bikes]

My crew's a bit of a mix on new and old riders. the one thing we do have in common is having a bloody good laugh with a few beers in hand after a day on the road. The only time I got pissed off with people i was riding with was doing Route 66 tour with a group of randoms, many of which found it too hot and tiring and were always wanting to get to the next hotel as quick as possible.

[@xisotopex]

what a fuckin time to be alive.... speaking of the time starting in the late 40's

[@lornemannen1981]

Hahaha! That was 20 something minutes well spent. 21:20 I don't want back.

[@1couple2bikes]

Great comment! Cheers for that.

[@r_itchytrigger]

Love the intro

[@crystinamarie1]

I will be joining this prestigious club soon, oh yes. Future biker in the making over here. Nothing beats the wind in your hair and the sound of that engine 😎

[@princequezaire2360]

Peace

[@BIGGETDFX82]

Check on a riding school

[@williamemerson1799]

Good one! 👍🍻

[@raymondossevoort7673]

Brilliant . Thanx

[@geraldfitzgibbon7428]

Good video. Well said too

[@joechavez4494]

Pretty good video 👍

[@martindavies8326]

Good good on ya mate, loved it 😂🤣😆✊♠️

[@jaywalton683]

Gold.

[@olivercromwell3575]

If Australia had ever built it's own motorbike or own culture I might take this seriously. It is and was always a creative fucking wasteland. I can't see that changing.

[@codyparker679]

It's either same as America or the street bike groups same as the rest of the world

[@hodaka1000]

A hundred years ago Australia had dozens of motorcycle manufacturers

[@mickking5913]

Better than the u.s which is just a violent shithole.

[@amsterdamoriginalsaustralia]

Cool vid.

[@simontemplar1]

I lived it in the 60s 70s and 80s..................now I got one foot in the grave

[@majorfeelgoodrecords2740]

I love B grade movies 🤣😂😂 Great doco 🎼🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@JohnCunningham-sy5ug]

Best motor cycle video of all time perfect narration. Yup look out for those pricks on two wheels 🛞 LMAO. 😅🤣😁

[@relevation0]

Easy Rider! Where they don't go over 30mph! Lol

[@montewolf3570]

The media and the police created the image off the Biker time article and many movies have shaped our image

[@kopynd1]

after 65 to 72 were the best days, petrol oil grease metal

[@recreationalplutonium]

I understood only 30% but fucking great video

[@1couple2bikes]

What? because of my accent or my mumbling or the complex structure of my story telling?

[@hodaka1000]

Marlon Brando runs like Steven Seagal

[@keithwaite5026]

Brilliant ❤🏍🏍🏍🏍👊👍

[@pierocicconi3261]

Great Aussie Narrator

[@1couple2bikes]

Onya mate

[@CailenCambeul]

In the 80's I remember rocking up for a job with my woman on the bitch seat. I did the interview, got the job. It was in Beenleigh Qld. The woman was sitting/lounging on the bike. I walked out from the interview and there were massive apologies. Then they explained that they worked for the joint, but were Bikies, not Bikers. Please accept their apologies. Sure, I just got the job. The next day I rocked up with colours on. I was not a "Bikie". Although, there was a bloke with Norseman MC tattooed onto his arm. He was from Adelaide of course - I know, because I had Mandamas MC tattooed onto mine in the same place.

[@BNatoAk]

I like your "in the beginning" 😅

[@glen7228]

What movie was Jimmy's precautionary tale from? I don't think I've ever seen it.

[@1couple2bikes]

It was one of those "educational" films from the era. (I took some liberties during the editing process.)

[@glen7228]

- Thanks for clearing that up, because I was thinking I missed a good one.@@1couple2bikes

[@lessISmore4444]

Great job putting that together, you tell a good story. I'm glad you didn't show the current crop of Aussie Bikies all roided up in their gym gear. Looks like they spend way more time in front of a mirror preening themselves than actually riding a bike.

[@ianwright3971]

You seem to have entirely forgotten the British motorcycle scene .....

[@1couple2bikes]

There was a British motorcycling scene? What impact did it have?

[@vespadavidson2315]

@@1couple2bikeswell on some convict camp in the middle of nowhere.... not a lot. However in the UK I do believe half a dozen or so guys rode some bikes around, but nicely.

[@hodaka1000]

​@@1couple2bikes The yanks had The Wild One we had Stone and speaking of bum fu ked the poms had Leather Boys Have you seen Leather Boys ? 🤣

[@wsbill14224]

At the 2:39 mark did I see a Henderson crash?

[@SherKhan-b1kes]

Excellent work and entertaining but I don’t agree on biking becoming even more popular when looking at the current sales statistics of several countries.

[@hellbilly6532]

Aussi lingo cracks me up

[@simonapeters4372]

Real bikers wear boots beginners wear tennis shoes don't forget your tennis racket common sense is not that common anymore

[@ilovemotocicleta]

I’ve been riding for 15 years and still occasionally wear high top af1s

[@Andy-yy2fg]

Question, have you ever ridden a motorcycle and are you still riding now?

[@1couple2bikes]

Nah mate I just get pillioned around by the missus...

[@Andy-yy2fg]

@@1couple2bikes Indeed, riding home on a Sunday morning, pillion on the ZRX1100, the girl I'd always loved riding it, slightly hungover myself....

[@mopar4656]

Side fact: @ 9.44 you'll see Hank Kimball, from "Green Acres" being given a quick shove in the chest.

[@kevinwaynehunt1163]

FUKN CLASSIC.

[@Mr19thcenturyman]

Thanks. Not enough 1930s-1950s history available. Where were the cameras then?

[@johnsparklingrocket2361]

They were all filming something more important 😂

[@deanblanton-fh3gq]

Holster, stage screen and LIFE magazine, did a number on the folks who rode in clubs. Never an issue, until politics got involved with jus a ride to then a small town to get away. My grand father, a member of a club called “ Clapping Gooses” motorcycle club which most were veterans from the World War II. Just traveling to meet other clubs. Never any issues or arrests. The political fever could let that happen, so they made it all up to scare the folks. Make hate! Not fun! Californias politicians still at it today.

[@kdawson143]

They were called Galloping Goose Mc. Not clapping Goose

[@druegeme]

thanks for the video! the word Biker has so much baggage; I choose to identify as a rider.

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

Right out of the gate: ""The term biker was popularized in the 1980s"??????? Is this an Aussie version of the history? I didn't even get 1 minute in.

[@This-crazy]

Comments about modern cyclist got immediate sub and like from me.😂

[@waltermatthews1155]

😂😂😂👍

[@Buckydhu]

Didn't Australia have Ton-Up Boys/greasers in the 50/60s or was it just a British thing

[@1couple2bikes]

Yeah we had that sort of thing if not the exact same thing.

[@blackfoot16]

Since 1901-Indian

[@matthewb8229]

The intro alone demonstrated what bikes are all about. Oh sure, you can go down the "freedom of two wheels" and "the brotherhood of riding" but in all reality it boils down to two things: Boobs, and butts. I wouldn't change it for the world.

[@user-fh1yt1xo4h]

Most of them were bomber Crew in ww ll after the war it was hard to settle down so they just bought bikes and Hit the road 😅

[@johnsimmons809]

What is that song at 2:00 in the video? Really cool and interesting

[@hyyyyu5346]

Bosozoku

[@troyelliott390]

✔

[@robertdawson8522]

Cant believe y'all censored the Dave Mann painting removing the ⚡⚡ from the gas tank.How woke!!

[@1couple2bikes]

Not me, i just grabbed it from the net

[@roberte8273]

Let's not forget Lazareth...........who rose from the yoke of oppression.......to benefit the community..............

[@ferdinandsiegel4470]

Bikers use to be known as Vikings!

[@1couple2bikes]

Why? Because they were surrounded by 'oars?

[@petejohnston5375]

I give it a 4 out of 10, only because Lee Marvin saved it from being totally gay. Funny. Always thought the exact same thing

[@reliom9836]

Evolution or Involution?

[@1couple2bikes]

Whatever you want it to be sport, no skin off my nose.

[@cameronduffy8115]

Well done mate you can come over and read the dictionary to me any time lol

[@mikejones-go8vz]

I give the movie 1/10 dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, I always thought Brando was a good actor 😳

[@markwng]

A big fat fukyou to damien coganoto for introducing the american term "biker" to the australian bikie scene in about 84. Yes, that is actually what happened. He went on to work in politics which makes sense.

[@1couple2bikes]

Cheers for the follow up. I didn't know that.

[@superglide6680]

"....... saved it from being totally gay." Ooh, you naughty naughty narrator!, 😁

[@Richard_Lush]

Love the commentary. Lee Marvin made that movie. The rest sucked.

[@1couple2bikes]

You are a man of good taste

[@chentequilichini7182]

village people on bikes!!😆