Road Rat
Riding Club

In October 2006, the Road Rat Riding Club was founded in Venezuela with the aim of reviving a brotherhood of motorcyclists who are originally from the state of California, USA.

Led by Daniel Mancin "RoadRatDan" along with other motorcyclist friends of the time, the Road Rat RC club was formed. The colors were seen for the first time at an event at that time in the city of Valera in Venezuela. After several group activities in several years from that time to the present and in different places, the members spread out around the world, carrying and keeping alive the spirit of the Road Rat RC in countries such as England, Spain, USA, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela and Australia, representing its colors along with the legacy and ideals of the Road Rat.

As an interesting fact, in its beginnings the racing car clubs took this name of Road Rat after the original Moto Club disappeared but only as a rebellious name.

In the Hollister events of July 1947, Riverside Police District Sheriff Carl F. Rayburn said that the bikers were a bunch of thugs and hoodlums, so Hollister Police Chief J.A. Bennet called them outcasts and AMA (American Motorcycle Association) Secretary Lin A. Kuchler made a public statement that would go down in history: "The infamous bikers were about one percent of the total attendees, so only one percent were thugs and hoodlums." From then on they were known as the 1% motorcycle clubs, the outlaws.

After the tragic Holister event of 1947 where it was said that only 1% of motorcycle clubs had been responsible for the disorder, the newly formed Hell Angels called a meeting of motorcycle clubs with those accused of being part of the 1%, among these were the Gipsy Jokers, Road Rats, Galloping Goose, Satans Slaves and The Presidents among others, at that meeting they decided to wear a picture of the 1% as a protest against the discrimination of the AMA, meanwhile the conflicts between motorcycle clubs were more violent.

The young revolutionaries of motorcycling of those days were in complete agreement with the reading of the facts and were fed up with the continuous restrictions imposed by a narrow-minded society and so they sought their own philosophy of life. This concept of freedom took on a new dimension, they adopted the exploits of the Holister Bash and the 1% motorcycle clubs declared themselves outlaw motorcycle clubs.

In 1966, since the founding of the Road Rat MC England, they were initially a street gang in London, there is also a person known by the nickname "Road Rat Robert" connected with the Road Rat USA, which lasted a short time between 1946 and 1949 as they were young post-war ex-military men and took different paths or were dismantled by other motorcycle clubs that took their territory.

These data were taken from Harley Davidson historians Oluf F. Zierl and Dieter Rebmann in the book of stories and myths of Harley Davidson in turn based on historical data and in the spirit of motorcycling and individual freedom to achieve the improvement of others, in the company of friends who go beyond the knowledge of friendship and in the aim of creating a brotherhood in order to protect, help and share outdoor life along with the hobby of motorcycling, we come together to form a fraternal group of personal and social respect to overcome social, political or commercial restrictions, thus expanding our family nucleus and breaking down the economic, social barriers of race, color, creeds and territorial, that oppress or restrict us.

We Road Rats are the last and oldest species of motorcyclists, the most advanced in the evolutionary line of biker society, survivors against the stipulations of prejudices and complexes of the social, economic, political, and military world. Our survival has allowed us to reproduce successfully from its beginnings in the late 19th century to the present day and into the future.

Our species will survive and maintain this legacy for centuries to come. The Road Rats, faceless, will sneak into every environment, invading them with their presence, smells, and customs, destroying everything and hiding when necessary to emerge again from the depths, procreating their peers who are ever stronger and more convinced of their existence, improving their skills and abilities in knowledge, control of the road, and their motorcycles.

We Road Rats were not created, we were born that way, and our legacy will be to continue developing toward our fellow human beings and the survival of the species.

We must always love our neighbors for the benefit of the Road Rats, since each of us is your brother by blood, species, and pack, respecting the decisions of the Master Rats (MR). You may never deceive, deny, or lie about your heritage and origin as Road Rats, nor to your pack brothers.

Since you are a rat, we can never separate you from the pack because you are a rat and you will always be a rat, but if you misbehave or get angry, take good care of yourself and your family, since we are rats too.

We Road Rats are not miserly, because in the pack, all the best and the worst are shared. We are family because we respect your wife's rat and your children's rats as if they were our own. We are loyal because we depend on them for our survival and future. We are motorcyclists because it is our pleasure to enjoy Equality, Liberty, and Life.

Born to Travel to the Limit

ROADRATDAN

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