New Zealand Bike Gang

The head hunters were formed in 1967 followed by highway 61 in 1968.

New zealand bike gang.

His motorcycle a white harley davidson. New zealand has had youth and street gangs since the 1950s according to sociologist jarrod gilbert. Highway 61 was the largest motorcycle gang in new zealand in 2010. The new zealand police have distinguished between new zealand gangs with predominantly maori and pacific islander membership outlaw motorcycle gangs and local street gangs.

They didn t ride bikes but they quickly developed all the trimmings of an outlaw motorcycle club. By the late 1960s some of new zealand s most notorious gangs had appeared. The arrival of the 501s named after the character section their visas were cancelled under has radically changed new zealand s gang landscape. By the 1970s established gangs included black power mongrel mob head hunters and stormtroopers.

In the 1960s a gang of variously disaffected youth sprang up in hawkes bay new zealand.