# Outlaw motorcycle club question.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-motorcycle-club-question/548251>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 28, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-motorcycle-club-question/548251 "2010-07-28T00:50:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-motorcycle-club-question/548251/1 "2010-07-28T00:50:19Z")

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One of the big time motorcycle clubs has a clubhouse here in my mid-western city. It has thier name in big letters right on the building. I first became aware of this last winter.  
So, all summer I have not seen any members wearing the clubs “colors.” It’s not that big of a city, seems like I would have noticed by now. Do they not do that now? Seems if they wanted to remain “underground” they would have been more subtle with the clubhouse.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlaw-motorcycle-club-question/548251/2 "2010-07-28T01:51:37Z")

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Hving the club name on the clubhouse isn’t much of a risk - the police know where the clubhouse is whether the name is on it or not. If there’s intelligence that the club is into something big right now, or a lot of friction between the club and the police, or if the police are very very interested to talking to a particular member, the club may be avoiding wearing their colors in public until things die down.