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Jun 21, 2024 · Danny Lyon considered himself a bikerider, but there were glaring differences between him and the members of the Chicago Outlaws, a notorious motorcycle club. They were blue-collar...
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Jun 24, 2024 · The Bikeriders follows Austin Butler and Tom Hardy in the fictional Chicago Vandals, but they're based on the real life Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club.
Jun 21, 2024 · The Bikeriders, Nichols’ first film since 2016’s Loving, tells the story of the Vandals, a 1960s Chicago motorcycle club loosely inspired by the real Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, the...
Aug 12, 2024 · Lyon was a first-year history student at the University of Chicago in 1959 when a classmate introduced him to motorcycle culture. The owner of a Triumph TR6 bike, he would soon combine this new...
Jun 16, 2024 · The Bikeriders was inspired by photojournalist Danny Lyon’s 1968 The Bikeriders, a non-fictional book. In 1963, Lyon joined the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club to better understand the subjects of his research.
Jun 20, 2024 · And, just like in the film, the real Outlaws did eventually turn into a proper gang, and as of November of last year, was classified as a criminal organization by the U.S. Department of...
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Jun 19, 2024 · ‘The Bikeriders’ is based on the 1968 book of the same name by photojournalist Danny Lyon. Writer and director Jeff Nichols was interested in portraying the experiences recorded by Lyon while riding with the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club for two years starting in 1963.
