Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

Brandon Mull

It’s no secret by now that I left the club life behind me. For me, the lifestyle I once knew is no more. It’s been taken over by politics and loss the allure it’s once had. My experience in a 1%er club was two years, two years of doing nothing but shaking my head and laughing inside. 1% warriors are no more, Generation X is the last of the generations that will know what it used to mean to be a warrior on two wheels.

What I found out with my old club, as many do others, one man is running the entire show without any checks and balances. What someone does in the past doesn’t mean crap today. To live off of something that happened decades ago is actually kind of comical. What is even worse is having everyone around you buy into that bullshit. This is exactly is wrong with clubs today and why I’ll never again have anything to do with them. If you want to act gangster then start doing gangster stuff and spread the wealth, otherwise you’re not owed shit if you’re not spreading that money around.

Weak minded people follow that kind of person, this is happening all over the club scene now, one of the reasons it’s no longer a place to find brotherhood. If you want to join something, join a Riding Club. A riding club is the closest you will ever get to true brotherhood and the traditional experience of what it all used to be like.

I’m asked all the time if people should hang around an MC to check it out. Or another one is they want to be apart of an mc. I tell them “Hell No!” You will not only loose your money, but all that time as well on something that is fiction and built up from the past.

Black Dragon spent 35 years in his club Black Sabbath MC. His club came on my show and just lambasted him. That’s Brotherhood? I felt so sorry for him during that show, knowing the amount of time he spent building that club. Where did it get him? Thrown out and his name was being tarnished by lies and more lies. That right there folks is what happens in motorcycle clubs. Dedicate your whole adult life to something only for politics and power struggles to end it the way it did with Black Dragon.

I’d used to be the first to come out and defend clubs, not any damn more. I realized myself that I wasted all that time I was in clubs for nothing. I bought into the so-called brotherhood like many others have until one day I woke up. I woke up seeing a bunch of people sitting around talking and doing nothing in regards to action. It was then that I decided to tell both sides of what goes on in a motorcycle club so others don’t make that mistake. Sure, when you first patch in you feel like the king of the world. Just wait till a couple of years have passed and then tell me how you feel about it.

A reckoning is coming for motorcycle clubs in the next decade. People are fed up with all the bullshit that comes from it, not to mention younger kids want nothing to do with clubs or groups anyways. Membership in Motorcycle Clubs, especially Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs is dwindling. Most people would first rather join a riding club before they would even consider a full blown motorcycle club. People nowadays are free thinkers, what used to work for MC’s no longer do. Intimidation is no longer in their arsenal because you have a generation of kids that will happily blow your head off before submitting to some stupid shit. Not to mention law enforcement using all kinds of new goodies to catch clubs in the act.

The internet has been a huge influence in the motorcycle club scene. It’s given a complete picture of what people actually think of clubs. That picture that is being painted isn’t the best look for clubs. No longer can you use the “I don’t care what others think crap.” That kind of attitude is already losing you support from independents and the public as a whole. It’s also the reason why you have major clubs only having 6 or 7 guys in a chapter now. I’ve seen that all over the country and if they tell you any different they’re lying their ass off to you.

Riding clubs are exploding right now, that and social clubs. The reason they’re exploding is because they don’t get involved in the politics, nor do they sit on a bar stool all day, they actually ride their motorcycles. That’s what this is all about isn’t it? Riding your motorcycle? I ride my motorcycle more now than I ever did in a motorcycle club. After leaving the club I’ve actually put more into riding my motorcycle, enjoying it for what it was supposed to be about. Not having to worry about a target being on my back because of some beef that was started decades ago. Nor do I worry about having to back some idiot so called brother up after they do some dumbshit.

This is where a lot of people are now, doing the riding club thing or their own thing, just like it was supposed to be. Do I consider myself a 1%er anymore since I left the club? That’s a big fucking no! I want nothing to do with that, it’s a part of my life done and gone. I can tell anyone wanting to go that way you’re going to find yourself very disappointed. It’s all politics and power struggles. Most of the time nothing is done by the bylaws, most of the time it’s only a few people on a power trip thinking they are the club, instead of working for the clubs best interest.

Many of the bigger creators on social media if you notice were once part of clubs, but now they’re not. Ask yourself why that is, come on, ask yourself and give an intelligent answer. Let’s just say working in this genre we hear a lot behind the scenes as well as what you hear in public. What we hear behind the scenes is nothing good I can tell you that.

Anyways, that’s my thoughts on this subject and if things don’t change for clubs, they truly will face that reckoning and fighting to survive to remain relevant in the motorcycle scene.

James Hollywood Macecari