In the mid 1940s Paul Stockinger, one of the founding members of the Jolly Rogers Motorcycle Club worked at Fosberg Indian as a mechanic. His son Steve provided the Historian with these photos and we are grateful to him. The pictures show the shop, inside and out in about 1946. Paul relocated to Tacoma a [...]
This photo, the earliest known group shot of the J.R.M.C., from the Stockinger collection, was in a group of 1944 photos. It shows the Jolly Roger Motorcycle Club on street bikes just prior to a run. Notice how young they all are. The club was formed by Highline High School graduates. There doesn’t appear to be a club uniform [...]
We are now at the point in our story telling where we can get to the meat which is to say, the beginnings of our brotherhood/sisterhood:
THE JOLLY ROGERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB
SEATTLE WASH.
We’ve taken a quick look at how the earliest motorcyclists dealt with rotten roads (which was one of the reasons for the establishment of clubs), [...]
The club scene is our next bit of history detective work. About five years ago at the motorcycle museum display at Bellingham, one of our members, did an inspiring and informational discussion on the history of clubs in our area that went from the beginning up to the arrival of the Bandidos in our area. [...]
This time we’ll continue to look at what it was like in Western Washington for motorcyclists in the days before the Jolly Rogers Motorcycle Club was founded in 1941.
My rationale is that the seeds were planted in the childhood of the founding members from what they saw around them in the local motorcycle scene during [...]
Last time I made a comparison between driving in our December snow storm and riding in the early days, before modern pavement became very common. This took us back to the first decades of the 20th Century. Why start with that sort of stuff for a history blog about the Jolly Rogers Motorcycle Club when [...]
Jolly Rogers Motorcycle Club riders are a rough and ready group who, over the years, have easily faced the trials and tribulations of 420 foot “stairway’s to Heaven” TT track races, road races and crappy weather of all sorts. For the past couple weeks, in Seattle and all of Washington, we’ve faced new challenges that [...]