HELLS
ANGELS
BELGIUM
The beginning of Hells Angels Motorcycle Club
On March the 17th. 1948 the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded in the Fontana/San Bernardino area in the United States of America. About the same time other clubs were formed in various places in the state of California, but none of these clubs were associated neither with Hells Angels nor with each other, and most of them do not exist today. The San Bernardino charter (also called "Berdoo") still exists, although most of its original members at one time moved northwards to Oakland. This removal is probably the reason why many outsiders wrongly describe Oakland as the Mother Charter of Hells Angels MC World.
During the fifties more Hells Angels Charters came into existence.
In the beginning the charters had nothing to do with each other,
but after some years they united and regular criteria of admission
were laid down. From having been exclusively a Californian
phenomenon, the club developed internationally in 1961.
It happened when the first charter outside California was adopted
- strangely enough as far away as Auckland, New Zealand.
During the sixties Hells Angels spread out to the East Coast
of the USA and later to the Midwest.
On July the 30th. 1969 the first European Hells Angels charter
was accepted in London, England and today there are more than
125 charters in Europe alone. In the end of the seventies
Australian clubs were admitted and in 1984, Rio de Janeiro,
Brasil became the first South American charter. In 1993 Hells
Angels came to the African continent with a charter in
Johannesburg, South Africa. Eastern Europe got its own Hells Angels charter in the new millennium and since then many more countries have been granted the now famous winged death head.
The admission of clubs all over the globe caused changes in the structure of Hells Angels. The small motorcycle club from Berdoo was now mother charter of the world´s biggest motorcycle brotherhood HELLS ANGELS MOTORCYCLE CLUB WORLD. Today Hells Angels MC World has charters in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bohemia (Czech Republic), Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, Sweden, United States and Wales. Clubs from new countries seeking admission are to be found in Iceland, Japan, Lithuania and Latvia and more are following.
Visit HAMC WORLD for latest charterlist and the "CHARTERS" page for the history of HAMC Belgium charters.
Belgium History
In 1989 a few friends who liked bikes had the idea of creating a club Hells Angels in Belgium.
Those Flemish and Wallonian friends met in the beginning in the region of Torhout in West-Flanders.
This club was simply called MC Belgium and the members wore only front flashes in black and white.
Years passed by and the club moved to Ghent.
In 1994 they melted together with another club from Ghent named MC Riders, a club who also wore front flashes only.
The union of those two clubs was called 'Riders MC Belgium Ghent'.
Now they wore both patches.
Then things accelerated and the 2nd of September 1995 the Riders MC Belgium became officially Hangeround Hells Angels.
The fallowing year the Red and White arrived in Belgium.
The club became Prospect the 25th of June 1996.
The club got their full colors the 15th of July 1997.
HELLS ANGELS MC GHENT BELGIUM.