Still Crazy After All These Years

A Look at the Hangmen Motorcycle Club, Then and Now

After 65 years, the Hangmen Motorcycle Club, formed in Richmond, California in 1960, is still going strong. This year, in September, we met for our annual run in Oklahoma. It’s somewhere different every year. We are so spread out; it always gives people a chance for a long ride.

Grand Canyon, 1971. I’m at the upper right, with the hat.

The history is long and colorful, some of it is recounted in my book about the club. Some of it is chronicled in newspaper articles over the years, and some of it can never be told. Such is the nature of motorcycle clubs.

Grand Canyon, 1972

Friendships and brotherhood can last a lifetime, and it’s always a treat to see people at the run, some you have not seen for a while.

The long rides are well worth it, even the heat and the rain. Nothing stops us from our yearly get-togethers; you forget about the discomfort as soon as you see familiar faces.

In 1971, all bikes were choppers.

Some of the bikes in 2025. The rest of the group were out running amok.

There was SoCal, Arizona, Oklahoma, Alaska, Colorado and a bunch of Nomads.

I have to admit, the old days were a bit livelier, but then, we were a lot younger.

Having a little good clean fun

Hipster, always has lots of good conversations

Yours truly, then…

And now

Initiating a patch (on the ground). It could’ve been worse, he might have been in it.

Some are even riding choppers.

Just think, the one-hundred-year anniversary is only thirty-five years away. I’m planning on being there, but you never know.

The author then…

And now…