The analysis of 126 articles indicates the aptness of the quotation: “Bikers are people, who wear leather jackets and jeans coats with stickers, drive big motor-bikes that are loud and catch attention. … They ride from bar to bar and destroy things. They smoke marihuana and wear tattoos, have steel-helmets, are noisy, do not wash and are often drunk. They like fighting and … want to shock people” (Account of a 16-year-old, Baumann, 1988, p. 37).
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BaumannH. (1988) Rocker in Deutschland [Bikers in Germany]. Vol. 5. Mannheim, Germany: Bikers' News Verlag.
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JonesE. E.PittmannT. S. (1982) Toward a general theory of strategic self-presentation. In SuisJ. (Ed.), Psychological perspectives of the self. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 231–263.
