Bandidos Motorcycle Club
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| Motto | We are the people your parents warned you about |
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| Founded | 1966 |
| Location | San Leon, Texas |
| Founder | Donald Eugene Chambers |
| Type | Outlaw motorcycle club |
| Region | United States, Australia, Belgium, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Russia, Kosovo, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, UAE, Kazakhstan, Brunei |
| Membership | 5,000+ |
| Website | www |
The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is a "one-percenter" motorcycle club gang with a worldwide membership. The club was formed in 1966 by Don Chambers in Texas. Its motto is "We are the people your parents warned you about." In 2005, it was estimated to have 5,000 members in 210 chapters, located in 22 countries.
The Bandidos were founded by 36-year-old dockworker Donald Chambers in March 1966 in Houston, Texas. He named the club in honor of the Mexican bandits who lived by their own rules and he recruited members from biker bars locally in Houston as well as in Corpus Christi, Galveston, and San Antonio. Like other outlaw motorcycle clubs (Outlaws, the Pagans, and the Hells Angels), they call themselves "One Percenters", a phrase coined by the former president of the American Motorcyclist Association who once stated that 99 percent of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens and 1 percent "outlaws." By the early 1970s, the club had over one hundred members, including many Vietnam War veterans. The majority of the club consists of Caucasian males and Hispanics, but African Americans are not admitted. Their motto is "We are the people your parents warned you about."
The Bandidos has over 90 chapters in the United States, 90 chapters in Europe, and another 17 in Australia, 2 in New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
In the United States, the club is concentrated in Texas, but extends into Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Washington, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and several other states.
In Canada, the Rock Machine Motorcycle club in Montréal merged with the Bandidos in 2000; there was a chapter in Toronto, Ontario until the Shedden massacre led to their deaths.
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