Life photographer Bill Ray witnessed the Angels' attention grabbing display.
'The sight of a photographer invariably whips the Angels into a kissing frenzy.' ' is a guaranteed square-jolter, and the Angels are gleefully aware of the reaction it gets,' he wrote. Thompson's book Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga.
The bikers' kisses became immortalized in Hunter S. 'It was 100 percent the opposite direction that mainstream society was going in.' Hell's Angels and other outlaw gangs proudly called themselves ' one percenters,' a riff on the head of the American Motorcycle Association's statement that 99 percent of bikers were law-abiding citizens and one percent caused trouble 'Being in an outlaw motorcycle club, the biker lifestyle back then, was definitely counterculture,' says Ed Winterhalder, a former Bandido, author, and producer of several television shows about biking.
They loved Harley Davidson bikes, hard-drinking, and fighting. Hell's Angels and other outlaw biker gangs rebelled against the rigid social norms of the 1950s and 1960s.
