HOG patch etiquette and instructions...
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It's been a LONG time so I reserve the right to be wrong, but I believe the post you quoted may have come from from HD. Back in the previous century when I was a freshly minted piglet awaiting the arrival of my HOG magazine with great anticipation, I remember them publishing some rules about how and how not to wear your hog patches. The "never wear a bottom chevron" rings a bell, but at the time they were referring to the large back patch, not the little yearly updates. In fact, I think at that time they discouraged wearing the large back patch at all--but they still sold them.
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I believe the op is pointing out that hog patches should never resemble a 1% layout.
I know of a local HOG chapter that has there patches arranged in a 1% fashion on the back, with a city rocker on the bottom.
I know of a local HOG chapter that has there patches arranged in a 1% fashion on the back, with a city rocker on the bottom.
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However, being a HOG member doesn't mean he's NOT tough - maybe even tougher than anybody you ever met in a 1%er club (heck, it doesn't even mean he's not in a 1% club). I'd bet, if we could count it, there's more people in HOG that have been shot, blown up, stabbed, and have killed a boat load of folks, than in any outlaw club - they are just more likely to do it in a foreign country and not in connection to riding motorcycles.
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Not familiar with a "silver hammer pin" - what is it?
However, being a HOG member doesn't mean he's NOT tough - maybe even tougher than anybody you ever met in a 1%er club (heck, it doesn't even mean he's not in a 1% club). I'd bet, if we could count it, there's more people in HOG that have been shot, blown up, stabbed, and have killed a boat load of folks, than in any outlaw club - they are just more likely to do it in a foreign country and not in connection to riding motorcycles.
However, being a HOG member doesn't mean he's NOT tough - maybe even tougher than anybody you ever met in a 1%er club (heck, it doesn't even mean he's not in a 1% club). I'd bet, if we could count it, there's more people in HOG that have been shot, blown up, stabbed, and have killed a boat load of folks, than in any outlaw club - they are just more likely to do it in a foreign country and not in connection to riding motorcycles.
And just what HOG would you be talking about? The HOG I know is not like that....or at least they don't talk about it.
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Last edited by arcticharleyman; Apr 30, 2011 at 11:02 AM. Reason: I'm slow this morning.
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A Hammer pin is a pin that looks like a Ball peen, hammer.
And to me a HOG member wearing something like that is about as bad as a Cop club having a 3 piece patch....
And yes a lot of HOG members a vets....
Maybe tough was not the right word....excuse the Hell out of me....
A HOG member wearing something like that, Is I guess what would be called an oxymoron, opposite if ya will....
It all boils down to, if ya need an explanation....!!
And to me a HOG member wearing something like that is about as bad as a Cop club having a 3 piece patch....
And yes a lot of HOG members a vets....
Maybe tough was not the right word....excuse the Hell out of me....
A HOG member wearing something like that, Is I guess what would be called an oxymoron, opposite if ya will....
It all boils down to, if ya need an explanation....!!
