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

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In Soul on Bikes, East Bay Dragons motorcycle club founder Tobie Gene Levingston challenges the limits of African-American cultural storytelling. Levingston'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 millenium.

Tobie Gene Levingston views America through the handlebars of his Harley-Davidson. 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 four-decade-long ride.

Table of Contents

Foreword | Acknowledgments

Scootin' back in the pack | Layin' it by: scratch ankle and the sharecropping days | Fast times in jingletown | Enter the Dragons: the Fighting Levingstons | Butthole shifters and suicide clutches | Here come them dirty Dragons | Monterey Pop and days of love & Haight | Panther power and the long hot summer | Head start up the grapevine | Bags, brawls, and bears | On the side of angels | Heavy racin' | That dammed pipe: the cocaine '80s | The chosen few, the LA defiant ones, and the black LA set | Devil on my shoulder | The saga of Dangerous John | A younger breed of Dragons | Elimination

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