Soul on Bikes: The East Bay Dragons MC and the Black Biker Set - Softcover

In "Soul on Bikes," East Bay Dragons Motorcycle Club founder Tobie Gene Levington's personal journey transforms him from a southern sharecropper's son into a street leader riding a chopped Harley through the acid-laced days of Haight-Ashbury and Monterey Pop. In the tumultuous 1960s Levingston and the East Bay Dragons exploded onto Oakland streets alongside the Black Panther Party. Levingston and the Dragons survived the cocaine-fueled 1980s and rode their Harleys to glory into the new millennium. Filled with wisdom, joy, sadness, anger, and redemption, "Soul on Bikes" is the previously untold tale of an underground African-American culture, a hell-raising history of an all-black motorcycle club that defied the odds by surviving its wild 40-plus-years-long ride. Co-authors Keith and Kent Zimmerman are a unique writing team of twin brothers. They collaborated with Ralph "Sonny" Barger on "Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club." They also co-authored "Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs," the autobiography of John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the Sex Pistols.