No, literally: the word pirados translates from Spanish as “freaks” or “nuts.” The Spanish word for crazy, pirado, might ultimately come from the Greek pyr, meaning "fire." 6. Like the Bandidos, Los Pirados are a member of the United Clubs of Waco-and call themselves crazy. The festival honoring the god is known as the Bacchanalia, which is also a drunken revelry or orgy. Bacchus also refers to wine and liquor itself. This Canadian MC is named for the Greek god of wine. The ancient gods have also been an inspiration for hog-riders. The Bandidos were named by founder Donald Chambers in honor of the Mexican bandits he admired. What's a one-percenter? The amount distinguished from the 99 percent of MCs that are law-abiding, according to the American Motorcycle Association.
One of the largest motorcycle clubs (or MCs) in the U.S., the gang is considered an outlaw or one-percenter MC. 3. BANDIDOSĭescribed as the " baddest of the bads," the Bandidos were founded in Texas in 1966. Not only did the ancient leader unite the nomadic tribes north of China into what is now Mongolia, he was responsible for as many as 40 million deaths (which, some say, led to Pax Mongolica, a long time of peace in much of Asia) and fathered so many children that to this day one in 200 men are his direct descendants. In 2008, they were subject to a sting dubbed Operation Black Rain, in which members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ran a three-year undercover investigation that led to dozens of arrests for everything from drug sales to murder.Īnd about their name? According to their (pretty snazzy) website, it's derived from the Mongol Empire, which of course was led by that famous badass, Genghis Khan. The Mongols, a Latino gang, were established in 1969 in East L.A. The word Cossack comes from the Turkish quzzāq, meaning "adventurer, guerrilla." 2. According to The Heavy, the Cossacks MC claim to have traded the Cossack warriors’ horses "of 400 years ago" for motorcycles, which is certainly a different kind of horsepower. The real Cossacks were a "warlike" people from southern European Russia and were known for their horse-riding skills, especially during the reign of the Russian Empire from the early 18th to the early 20th centuries. The Cossacks were formed in Texas in the late 1960s. Motorcycle gangs around the country have gotten their names from a wide variety of sources.
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