Outlaw motorcycle club members can be distinguished by a 1% patch worn on the colors. This is claimed to be a reference to a comment made by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in which they stated that 99% of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens, implying that the last one percent were outlaws. The comment, supposedly a response to the Hollister riot in 1947,[24][25] is denied by the AMA—who claim to have no record of such a statement to the press, and that the story is a misquotation
Originally posted by AThousandYoung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_motorcycle_club#One_percenter
Outlaw motorcycle club members can be distinguished by a 1% patch worn on the colors. This is claimed to be a reference to a comment made by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) in which they stated that 99% of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens, implying that the last ...[text shortened]... aim to have no record of such a statement to the press, and that the story is a misquotation