original One-Percenters — not the richest of the richest, the elite within the elite, but “the one percent who don’t fit and don’t care… We’ve punched our way out of a hundred rumbles, stayed alive with our boots and our fists.” That first-hand quotes opens Hunter S. Thompson’sthe definitive account of the motorcycle gang that was both the emblem of pure, uncut postwar freedom and a nightmare for “respectable” society.
The Angels weren’t the only biker club in the USA, just the best-known; there were lots of others. Like, for example, the Outlaws, whose main chapter operated out of Chicago and allowed photographer Danny Lyons to interview and shoot them as they hung out, worked on their choppers and went on long runs. He also recorded interviews with a number of the members, as well as a few of their wives and girlfriends.