The Outlaws Motorcycle Club is a motorcycle club that was formed in McCook, Illinois in 1935. It has approximately 200 chapters in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Europe.
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The Rock Machine was a drug dealing organization that evolved into a motorcycle gang primarily based in Quebec, Canada. The group was initially formed as the result of an affiliation (the Alliance) between Montreal crime families such as the Pelletier Clan and other independent dealers who wished to resist the Hells Angels' attempts to establish a monopoly on street-level drug trade in the city. A violent turf war ensued with the Hells Angels. It was this turf war that prompted the Rock Machine to become a motorcycle club and align itself with the Bandidos motorcycle club from Texas. Initially most Rock Machine members did not even own motorcycles.
