Bandidos Motorcyle Club

The Bandidos Motorcycle Club, also known as the Bandido Nation, is a "one-percenter" motorcycle gang and organized crime syndicate with a worldwide membership. The club was formed in 1966 by Don Chambers in Texas. Its slogan is “We are the people our parents warned us about”. It is estimated to have 2,400 members in 210 chapters, located in 16 countries. The club considers itself to be an Outlaw Motorcycle Club. The Federal Bureau of Investigation named the Bandidos as an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang.

The club was formed on March 4, 1966 in San Leon, Texas by Donald Eugene Chambers. Many people think Chambers named his club the Bandidos after seeing a TV commercial with the Frito Bandito enthusiastically promoting Fritos corn chips. This is not true, as the cartoon came out in 1968 (although he did adopt an obese machete- and pistol-wielding Mexican Bandido as the center patch for the club's colors). Don Chambers, having served in Vietnam as a Marine, modeled the club's colors after the scarlet and gold motif of the United States Marine Corps. After Chambers' presidency ended due to his conviction for murder in El Paso, Texas, Ronnie Hodge was elevated to president.

The Bandidos Nation is known to have one of the largest member bases in the United States, and worldwide, beaten in membership numbers only by the Hells Angels. It is one of the only Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs that mixes races amongst its members, although there are almost no African-American Bandidos. There are, however, a roughly even mix of Hispanic and White American members. Due to an excess in members, Bandidos have also expanded over a larger area of the States, particularly in recent years. One of the noted new chapters is the San Andreas branch, headed by veteran biker John Taylor.

The Bandidos has over 90 chapters in the United States, 90 chapters in Europe, and another 17 in Australia and Southeast Asia. In the United States, the club is concentrated in Texas, but extends into Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Washington, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and several other states. The Rock Machine Motorcycle club in Canada merged with the Bandidos in 2000; there was a chapter in Toronto, Ontario until a dramatic internal conflict led to their deaths. The Bandidos are also found in Australia; aside from the non-locale-specific Nomads chapter, the chapters are located in Adelaide, Ballarat, Brisbane (Bayside, Centro, City), Byron Bay, Cairns, Geelong, Gold Coast, Hunter Valley, Ipswich, Melbourne, Mid North Coast, Mid State, Mission Beach, Noosa, North Victoria, Northside, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, and Toowoomba, and were acquired with much bloodletting. In recent years the club has also expanded heavily into Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, France and the Channel Islands. Additionally, it is looking into setting up shop in Russia and Eastern Europe and also in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesian.The Bandidos are organized by local chapters, with state and regional officers, as well as a national chapter made up of four regional vice presidents and a national president.

Like the Hells Angels, The Bandidos also have a number of puppet, or so-called "support," clubs, who are used as proxies for both legal and illegal activities. These groups usually wear reverse colors (gold border with red background rather than the Bandidos' red-border–and–gold background). They also commonly wear a unique patch (known as the "Heart Patch") consisting of a round patch in Bandidos colors on the front upper left of the colors (vest), as worn by the member. Most of these clubs are regional

Arrival in San Andreas.

In late 2014, the Bandidos announced that a Eldrick Wellington and his best friends Paul Freeway of the Bandidos would be coming to San Andreas, in January, 2014, they have come in San Andreas and lived in a village that is in Red County is named "Palomino Creeck". In there was confirmed when the Bandidos MC's Nomad charter made themselves known, and following the "Patching in" of new prospects, the Nomad charter split and some settled in Red County, creating the Bandidos Red County.

Following their arrival, News Reports say that members of the Bandidos have been in conflicts with clubs Sons of silince, and reporters have said they have photo imagery of the Bandidos talking with the Khans, who are friends of the club through the club's Vice President Paul Freeway.

Following their arrival in San Andreas, the Club is generally known for causing trouble for the Police, usually crashing a pull-over or another arrest, making nuisances of themselves, then riding off in whats known as "Pig-Flashing", however not a serious crime, members of the Bandidos are said to enjoy this as a "Hobby"

In Los Santos, there's seen several Bandidos MC members wearing Bandidos vests, driving around the town and trying to mark themselves in the town. The members have been seen with several other members grouping at Idlewood, Ganton, and Jefferson to get themselves marked and let the other MC's see them, says the witnesses. I've been asking several other witnesses which said the same and also said they have been seen with illegal drugs and were armed. They believe that they have started the illegal business in Los Santos and trying to take it over which is a bad news for the Los Santos population. The LSPD will keep their eyes on the Bandidos MC to prevent them making illegal activities..