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While there are plenty of friendly motorcycling clubs for the avid motorcyclist to join and ride with, primarily because there is safety in numbers, most of the wannabes like to join an OMC(as in, a one-percenter motorcycle club). There is a certain thrill associated with being bad, not that being part of an outlaw MC automatically turns you into an outlaw. But yes, people who are part of a one-percenter MC have been known to mock the law every now and then.

One of the rather popular MCs today, though not with the law enforcement agencies, is the Pagans MC. Also called The Pagans, they were mostly a peaceful MC, non-violent in its outcome. Slowly, as they began to accept more and more members in the 60s, they became more like a traditional outlaw MC. If you want to know more about them, read on for these 15 little-known facts about the Pagans MC.

Formed by Lou Dobkin in 1957, the Pagans MC was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland, with all of 13 members. Official MC business began in 1958-1959 withthe club being pretty peaceful. In the 60s, as it began to expand, it began to follow the traditional OMG setup, simply because it was joined by a lot of veterans with plenty of resentment against the government.

The term one-percenter comes from AMA itself that claimed that 99% of all motorcycle clubs were peaceful but there were one-percent who indulged in hooliganism. In the 60s, someone in the Pagans MC honed in on the term and made a 1%er patch, the diamond-shaped one with 1%er written in it. Soon, it became the emblem of every outlaw MC out there.

They may have begun with all of 13 members in the late 50s, but today they are one of the biggest outlaw MCs in the US. The other three being Hells Angels MC, Outlaws MC, and Bandidos MC. The Pagans mostly have a beef with Hells Angels, and territorial stand-offs are common between the two.

When they first started, they dressed in blue denim jackets with embroidery rather than biker jackets with patches. Their preference for motorcycles was also more Triumph than Harley-Davidson. As they expanded, the Harleys replaced the Triumphs. However, the blue denim jackets remained, with the embroidery replaced with traditional patches.

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The Pagans are ruled by a mother club, or ruling council, with a proper governing structure and a president. The first president was John Satan Marron, the erstwhile president of the Sons of Satan MC. In the early 60s, as a show of class, the Marron was paid the same salary as that of the US President, around $100,000 a year.

Today, there are more than 900 members in Pagans MC, with 300 of them being in Jersey alone. The law enforcement officials are worried and call it a threat to public safety. When the club presidents were subpoenaed into a court appearance, they pleaded the fifth amendment and refused to answer to violence claims, except saying that it was not club policy to not follow the law. How badass is that?

The Pagans MCs sudden increase isnt because of a record number of applications. Rather, they have begun to assimilate the smaller MCs of their area, often with threat-powered coaxing than anything else. They have also begun to accept the less-than-stellar members of the society, maybe seeing it as a power play.

While some one-percenters are very race and color-conscious, often having rules about the race of members, The Pagans not only have Caucasians as members but also Latinos. Some members disapprove of this mixed-race policy but no brother can question the rules set by the founding fathers of the Pagan's MC.

The Pagans MC does not bother about chapters for a reason, because they believe that they are already the kings of the East Coast. This is why the bottom rocker now says East Coast because the Pagans have a territory that spans the entire East coast. Not very modest, are they, for a one-percenter MC?

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With 1,300+ members and more than 100 chapters, The Pagan's MC is growing quickly and extend to Puerto Rico. The main East Coast cities in which Pagans MC is active areDelaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, New York, and Florida. Plus they are big in Maryland,Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

The patch of the Pagans is of the fire-giant Surtr sitting on the sun and wielding a sword, from Nordic mythology. Pagans is written in red, white and blue. The image does not come from a mythology book though, its an illustration by Jack Kirby from the 97th issue of the comic, Journey Into Mystery.

Before The Pagans started to wear East Coast as their bottom rocker, they did not have one. The reason was simple, as part of their code as an MC, it was their right to not tell anyone which city or state the Pagan member was from. Think of it as cocking a snook at the law enforcement agencies.

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We know what the one-percenter patch means, and that is the MC does not follow AMA rules and is an outlaw one. The Pagans wear other numbers as well. A Number 7 patch means in memory if they are honoring a fallen member. Meanwhile, a Number 5 patch means they have Nazi affiliations.

The Pagans often wear a number 4 patch as well, and this one means live and die, what many consider to be Pagans MCs motto. Some also wear live Pagans, die Pagans on their blue denim jackets, referred to as cuts. If a member breaks the rules, he can be shown to the door of the MC, or sometimes even this planet.

Much like how the devout do not miss the weekly mass unless they want to damn their souls, the weekly chapter meetings of the Pagans MC is compulsory for all members, and are even called church. Yet again an example of how the Pagans MC answers only to itself and its rules, and for the rest of the world, they wear the NUNYA patch, as in Nun Ya F***in Business!

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Arun Singh Pundir has been a longtime media crackerjack and worked most of his life in sales and marketing. In 2018, he officially flipped and switched sides to the editorial. He lives with his wife, two rascally sons and is a car and motorcycle nut in his free time. Not that he has too much free time. He currently writes for HotCars on anything that has any number or kind of wheels. He is also penning pop culture, lifestyle and all things rich for TheRichest. For now, he considers his Isuzu D-Max V-Cross, Suzuki Ciaz, and Royal Enfield Classic 500, the three current flames of his life. His dream is to drive around the world; even if it takes more than eighty days.

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