“It’s like having a Superman cape on,” Christie says about being a member of the Hells Angels. Founded on March 16, 1948, the Hells Angels quickly established themselves as the premier outlaw motorcycle club in the United States and later the entire world. You could absolutely be identified which geographical area you were from by what your motorcycle looked like.”įully immersed and accepted into the biker culture, Christie became a full-patch member of the Los Angeles charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 1976. I mean you had to build your own motorcycle. So if you weren’t a motorcycle builder or enthusiast you really weren’t accepted into the culture. You had to buy a regular Harley Davidson and strip it down and make your own custom parts. Back then you couldn’t go into a Harley shop and buy a custom motorcycle. “I walked into that world in 1966 and it was a completely different world back then,” Christie tells us. Soon after, he rode into the scene and eventually joined the Hells Angels. In 1966, he bought his first bike: a 1957 Panhead. Though his parents disapproved, he was fascinated by the world of motorcycles and outlaw bikers.

“When you run out of people to fight, you turn on each other,” he tells Gangsters Inc.īorn in 1947 in Ventura, California, Christie grew up as an only child in a family of Greek immigrants. After seeing how the biker world changed and grew more violent, he decided to get out and start a new life and career in the spotlight. George Christie was a leader in the Hells Angels, the world’s most notorious outlaw motorcycle club.

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