Foraging is for scouts. The Army has not used bikes since WW-II. Here in Michigan the state police abandonned them in 1939. They began to use some on $1 a year contracts about ten years ago and the city has them too. That is how they came to drift into a civilian life. The general veteran life style and surplus bikes began the mold you are talking about. It's not just about 10 points on Civil Service exams and the post man, or bartenders or even slaesmen. The Vincent Black Shadow was outlawed in 36 states. That was the beginning of the outlaw designation.

Cool one and interesting story :o)

Impressive shot Jock.....!!!!

Cool shot Jock. I like this one

Wonderfull ride capt'shot & POV Jock !! SUPERB I just feel riding to, following this wild Bikers for Jesus... Cool light & instant witness doc, xxxxx

O_O FANTASTIC CAPTURE :):):)

Hola mi querido amigo, Fantástica !Maravillosa fotografía, Felicitaciones! Un millón de estrellas de mi parte!** Abrazo y beso en tu corazón. Bendiciones Luminosas. Ludy

I met a group of nuns while i stopped at macdonalds one with my old beat up honda cx500 i had been given while down on my luck. and had 6 used motorcycle tyres tied on the back of it.(bike shop would let me pick though the used ones take the ones i wanted. would grind off the ware makers the police looked for and could get another 5,000-8,000 miles out of them lol) While they were so intrigued by my 3rd world type of load and hauling system they just had talk to m. so we sat an had lunch told them my tails of woe etc. Met them a few other times here and there friendly bunch all told. The one off shoot was they had talked me into calling my parents whom i had not spoken too in years glad they did too. been too ill and poor to ride any more. so i do graphic art. Live in a town thats 98% bornagain. But these people during ww2 used their churches to spy for the nazis. Yes that right they went all over north america doing suposed christian crusaides gathering info for hitler.the one church split up over this suposedly. but in actual fact it was to hide the finacal suporters incase the first group got caught. so those were colaberators of the nazis as they never turned the main group in. I get openly subbed by these suposed christian i have whole groups do a group snub in the name of god if there is more then 1 of them. i call these groups sgog,s and magogs Subbing groups of god Mean angrey groups of god I,m into nearly year 9 of solitary confinement. solitary confinements is better then open sgoging and magoging. and as you walk up to the fingers point the toungs wag their evil vile back stabbing .Some put their hand infront of their angery evil religious mouths and keep back stabbinggoing. most start their back stabbing with in 1.5 stepps away as you pass. see hicktor scale here: http://groups.msn.com/wawadave/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=2251 Another problem i have is every year for a full 6 weeks the american hunters come up here and stay next door and wake me up at 4.30 am to 5.30 am last few weeks are a bit latter ie 5.30 am. Between the nazi religious persicusion then back by the american with 6 weeks on no sleep. and then they burn the dump when ever the wind blows at my house except while the yanks are here(don,t want to mke them i,ll right?) This is but the tip of the iceberg. its far worse. They have taught me to hate god because any god thats going to fill heaven with sgogs and magogs is not a god i wish to know ever! I at this time ove year am very ill from the ner to 6 weeks(into 6th now) an actualy thinking of just ending it. i,m really not up to this american tourcher inspired by nazi relidgeuse fanatics. Some times you just have to call it quits as when there is no quality and only thing your doing is entertaining nazi sadists and sadorgasmics. And provideing sadistic entertainment for americam hunters who watch in through the windows when i stick my insolin needle in me and then call on the phone to confuse me hopeing i will take too much or too little insolin then watch to see the efect it has. yes this all really does happen and is 100% true. this year i have just unplugged my phone for the last 5.5 weeks. so now they just honk their horns loadly at 4.30 am or come over and pound on the walls of my house. or put their loud groups of dogs out right next to my house and leave them bark and bark and bark. try going through the next six weeks with your alarm set to go off at 4.30 am and then when you normaly get up. allso there are the late night tyre squiler horn honkers as well 2-3 hours sleep does not sustain life! so death really is an alturnative at this point take care.

Excellent shot, what a contrast. I like it!

Thanks Jock for sharing these everyday captures... super!

Super photo Jock!! Cool collection of bikes :)

A wonderful mix you captured. Jock. A splendid captur. It is unique! Hugs. Di. xx

Great grabshot!!

Impressive contrast and capture Jocko ... FAV ... Antonio !!!

Amazing contrasts in people and activity in this fascinating photo , Jock !

Great shot! Incredible! And the nuns are of the Congregation of Mother Teresa of Calcuta!!!

So funny to see the nuns with the bikers! An unique situation..love it :)

We have a lot of bikers here in Ca They usual are very nice and mostly all grown up lol they're all over 50 years of age maybe that's why they're nice guy N gals: love the nuns perfect photo!!

Fantastic Shot !!!!!! , Ana

Good observation and photo.There are all sorts of people that are bikers and there are also some nuns that can be quite frightening themselves.

Any of your pics make me smile, yoou are always in the most bizzarre situations, I love it!

Fantastic pov and capture, very nice shot!

Your talent for catching street candids is amazing, Jocko. Nuns and Bikers really works on all level of realistic photography. Nice to find out the true story on the deceased biker. Prayers for him and his family.

What a fabulous capture Jock!! Bikers don't need helmets in Louisiana? NY requires them. I love the nuns! What luck to get a shot of them and the bikers! Most of the Bikers I've ever met, both outlaw gang and plain folks bikers have been pretty decent. And like someone mentioned, it's the folks in the fancy cars that are often the pits.

often "bikers" are professional people just out for a buzz on the old bike.excellent capture

OUUUU COOL!!!!!!!!!! thats so you Jock!! oh the looks, absolutly stunning shot, I've missed you, you know you can e-mail me lladyhawk@hotmail.com, and hugs to you and everyone here Tina

Interesting Biker series here, and happy to hear that they got with GOD! :-) love the photos :::cheers:::