Louisiana Rubber Down Magazine November Vol. 12 | Page 28

Part 1

by: Pat “Road Hog” Patterson

B

iker Billy was born Billy
Jackson in a small town
like so many other non
descript little mid western towns, if
you were traveling west you would
probably breeze right through it’s
one traffic light without even knowing it existed.
When Billy was about ten years old he got hooked
on bikes through contact with a bunch of old WWII
Veterans who rode old Harley’s and Indian Motorcycles and had formed a very tight little group.
When Billy was about fourteen years old he got his
first bike, an old 1940 Harley Davidson Flat Head
which made him very happy and proud. Billy rode
his trusty steed every chance he got and would talk
about it with anyone who would listen, he eventually hooked up with that old veterans group who
taught him everything he needed to know about the
biker lifestyle like “Honor-Respect and Loyalty”.
While riding with this group Billy made a couple of
very close friends and Brothers one of them he lost
in a very bad wreck with a cage while they were
riding and Billy never forgot that accident or his
Brother. Billy rode with this group for quite awhile
and learned the biker ways from his older mentors,
although Billy enjoyed their company and wisdom
he eventually drifted away from the group to ride
with bikers closer to his own age.
Billy worked in a motorcycle shop for several
years and learned more about bikes and the biker
lifestyle as his boss was a pro flat track racer and
made the race circuit every season.
Billy traveled the motorcycle racing circuit with
his boss for several years first as part of the pit
crew and later tried his hand at short track and TT
Scramble racing.
Somewhere around seventeen Billy started traveling around the country, in these travels Billy met
many people, some regular folks and some very
righteous bikers. It was around this time that Billy
started having some very interesting experiences
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NOVEMBER 2013

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and fell in with some hard core bikers who would further his biker education. By the time Billy was eighteen
or nineteen he was riding with some serious bikers and
was very deep into the biker life and had experienced
more then men twice his age. It was about this time
that Billy found himself in a large east coast city with
several Motorcycle Clubs and a very large biker community to which Billy became part of very quick and
made many close friends and associates. It was here in
this city that Billy and several friends got caught up in
a very large biker party at which several laws were broken and several people were injured including a female
civilian. Billy and his friends exercised good judgment
and left the party and rode back to the town they lived
in and escaped the trouble that fell upon the party they
had attended.
See next months issue for the continuing sagas of “THE
ADVENTURES OF BIKER BILLY”

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