Awhile ago I got asked for tips for young journalists interested in covering outlaw bikers. Here’s my little top 10 list.

Even before Swedish Hells Angels were nabbed in this caper, I always thought there was something shifty about those garden gnomes. Here’s another reason for a ban on them.

Here’s an obit to remember. Michael (Flathead) Blanchart of the Dead Cats Motorcycle Club was a gun-toting Republican, although he confessed some of his friends strayed into criminality, prostitution and membership in the Democratic party.

The biggest biker in the province – and one of the smartest – pled guilty in Ottawa to a cocaine charge, sparing his girlfriend a criminal record. That means Paul (Sasquatch) Porter will be facing two years in the slammer.

B.C. liquor authorities are reviewing the license of a bar linked to a Hells Angel who’s linked to an American drug bust. Is it possible to wipe out links between criminals and licensed drinking spots? And when’s a link really a link? Seems like something for an undergraduate philosophy class.

Security’s particularly tight as a murder trial gets underway into a 12-year-old case which authorities connect tot he Hells Angels.

I’ve always admired the work of Rob Lamberti of the Toronto Sun. He officially left the paper last week for academic life, but filed this story and one appearing tomorrow on his way out. Lamberti’s a thorough, professional journalist and the game will be played at a lower level in his absence.

His series is about the release from prison of the Hells Angels and mobsters connected to a botched hit that ended in the paralyzing of Toronto mother Louise Russo.

A Washington State judge hit a Canadian man with links to Hells Angels in B.C. and a Mexican drug cartel with a 13 year term. He was convicted on smuggling pot and coke across two borders. Things went wrong when he hired an undercover agent to move drugs for him.

It’s like a horror movie, where the monster keeps coming back to life. Rock Machine colours are back on the streets of Quebec, raising obvious fears of a renewal of the violence of the Rock Machine’s war with the Hells Angels over drug turf.

It’s not that often that you hear Tavistock and Cambridge mentioned in Hells Angels story, but here’s one, with a man believed to be in the club charged with a break and enter.