How many of you have joined, or thought about joining, a motorcycle group?

I ride with the Iron Order MC and I wouldn't give it up for anything. We are a non 1% law abiding club. Where ever I go, I know I'll have family and brotherhood and a place to lay my head.
http://www.ironordermc.com

I rode for years--in fact, that is how I joined the Army, being stranded on my bike in front of the recruiting office waiting for an accident to be cleaned up. I road in Europe and all over the US. However, due to a back injury in the Army, I don't ride any more and moving back to the states after getting out , I no longer had a license. Would love to ride again. I keep thinking about it--perhaps a BMW with a side car for my Service Dog. Has to a quiet ridding.

I thought about joining a club once. I miss the brotherhood of military members, but I just can not see being a guest, then a prospect and then maybe a member. I have to many battle ridden scares to worry about the stuff that goes with going through membership rituals. Plus, if I want to ride, I ride, if I do not want to then I do not. I am not one for ridding because the prez is ridding. I do not hold it against anyone who is in club to each his own.

I'm a member of the Green Knights. I started in Chapter 86 in England and now I'm in Chapter 48 at JBLE. The GK is a great club because its very laid back and built for and by military members of all branches and is very career and family friendly. If you can't make it to an event, no big deal. There will be another one. We do it all, charity runs, memorial runs, motorcycle safety rallies. We also just go out for rides, if you can believe that. As coincidence would have it, the cover photo on the linked article is us. I'm the guy in the front, on the left. That was the POW-MIA Memorial on JBLE on National POW-MIA Remembrance Day last year. http://www.jble.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123425215
Our biggest problem seems to be folks misspelling Knights a "nights."

I am a proud member of the US Military Vets MC and love the brotherhood that the club provides. The priorities in the Club are 1) God and Family 2) Job 3) Club. Having done 30 years of active and reserve service I found that I missed the brotherhood that you only get with others that served. I missed being around soldiers and the club gives that back. Most of the members are of course former enlisted men and I get no breaks at all for being an officer, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love them all and in the club we are all brothers who served.

Being part of a motorcycle club is the only thing right now keeping me sane. I have been a member of the American Legion Riders for 8 years now. The Riders is a excellant group for a riding club if you want to get together with fellow veterans on bikes and do a benefit run. They also support the Legacy Fund for the American Legion which provides scholarship money to children of fallen service men and women for a full 4 years term. This is part of many things they do. Yes it does take some dedication but it really depends on the Post Program as to how in depth they require the time of its members.
However I also belong to a MC known as the MILITARY COHORTS. WE are a small group of veterans who have decidied to start our own club after some issues in trying to deal with other veteran MC clubs in the New England area. We are a new club right now of less then a year but have 10 members growing to more then 20 in the near future. These guys are my family, they have been there for me in many ways other riding clubs are not. We are not a 1% club and never will be but just a bunch of veterans who want to look out for each other as we did when we were deployed or in battle. The requirement for membership is the ame as joining any American Legion Post, and must be honorably discharged. There is not a requirement to be a combat vet at all.

I have been a member of the American Legion Riders since 2005. You have to be a American Legion member, American Legion Auxiliary or Sons of the American Legion members to join. We are not a motorcycle club. We ride for our Veterans and Veterans Charities. I am also a member of the Patriot Guard.

Riding with PGR since they started in Colorado. Joined America's Guardians MC (membership limited to Active Duty, Reserve, Honorably Discharged, and Emergency Service i.e: EMS, LEO, CO, fire). They require a criminal background check even if you have a security clearance. I think the politicians were worried about vets and active duty joining 1% clubs and they're too ignorant to understand the difference.

I am late to the conversation, but I joined the Combat Vets Motorcycle Association. For me its an awesome way to ride with other guys from post (it seems each post I get to has a chapter) and is a nice mix of enlisted, officer and veterans (and no one knows your rank, just your name). To join you have to be a combat vet, and have a motorcycle with bigger than 600cc's...thats about it.

CVMA does a lot of charitable and social work to help veterans, and (to me) gives me a great social outlet to hang out and ride.

Joined the Blue Knights years ago and am still a member but don't get to make meetings as am normally a few thousand miles away