The Bikeriders

The Bikeriders

First published in 1968, and now back in print for the first time in ten years, <i>The Bikeriders</i> explores firsthand the stories and personalities of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. This journal-size volume features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews by Lyon, made from 1963 to 1967, when he was a member of the Outlaws gang. Authentic, personal and uncompromising, Lyon's depiction of individuals on the outskirts of society offers a gritty yet humane perspective that subverts more commercialized treatments of Americana. Akin to the documentary style of 1960s-era New Journalism made famous by writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Lyon's photography is saturation reporting at its finest. <i>The Bikeriders</i> is a touchstone publication of 1960s counterculture, crucially defining the vision of the outlaw biker as found in <i>Easy Rider</i> and countless other movies and photobooks.