BIKIES are not new to the Gold Coast — they’ve called the Glitter Strip and Hinterland home for more than 40 years.
When the Finks founded their Gold Coast chapter in 1969, patched outlaw motorcycle gang members were seldom seen and rarely heard. Public displays of violence were rare.
The only time most people ever saw bikies was in their rear vision mirror as they wove their way through traffic on the Pacific Highway on two wheels, or crossed white lines and screamed past them on winding roads in the Hinterland. That all changed in the 1980s in a shocking incident that saw rival gangs embroiled in a shootout in a park at Tugun that catapulted bikies into the headlines.
When the Finks founded their Gold Coast chapter in 1969, patched outlaw motorcycle gang members were seldom seen and rarely heard. Public displays of violence were rare.
The only time most people ever saw bikies was in their rear vision mirror as they wove their way through traffic on the Pacific Highway on two wheels, or crossed white lines and screamed past them on winding roads in the Hinterland. That all changed in the 1980s in a shocking incident that saw rival gangs embroiled in a shootout in a park at Tugun that catapulted bikies into the headlines.
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