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Outlaw Biker: My Life At Full Throttle

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Dick Hayes's story "Outlaw Biker: My Life at Full Throttle" is perhaps one of the few realistic, centerline stories of a man who adopted the 1%er lifestyle and the motorcycle that goes with it as his way of living life. He is not a Sonny Barger nor a Ruben Cavazos, but rather a run-of-the-mill guy / biker who lived the bulk of his life on the fringes of society with all that entails...that's why he calls himself an outlaw biker.

In the macro picture he's your average 1%er and he describes how really unromantic the daily doings of a outlaw rider are despite the few, primarily criminal, "bright spots" - all that ultimately lead to either the hospital, the courts, or prison from what Dick describes.

As with nearly all bios and auto-bios coming from this slice of the criminal culture, little if any remorse is extended to the victims of the outlaw biker world's dependence on drug dealing, theft, firearms trafficking, sexual slavery, assault, murder, rape, domestic violence and all those other society-killing activities that keep him and those like him rolling on two wheels.

This exclusion of individual responsibility is yet another affirmation coming from the 1%er sub-culture of why Hunter Thompson ended his book on the Hells Angels with this advice from "The Heart of Darkness", the classic tome of Man at his very worst -

"The horror! The horror!...Exterminate all the brutes!"

Cleanly written, easy to put down and pick back up again, kudos to his co-writer for bringing it to life in print.

I bought this book on a whim, I needed a small purchase to get my free shipping. But still I was very disappointed. The story was just about some life long loser and it never got to any outlaw club stories. The implication I got from the title was it would be about outlaw clubs and bike stories, instead it was this losers life story and nothing new or interesting in it. Pass on this one.

I was disappointed with this book. Very little was written about anything to do with his club or motorcycling. It was more a personal story of Mr. Hayes who just so happened to be a biker. I am pleased he found his way, but his story is not unique.

Just your run of the mill biker scene , alot of bravado and no real scenarios...

Don't waste your money on this one. These are the poorly edited "memoirs" of a Brand X bad guy in a Brand X motorcycle gang. In lieu of this "book" I would recommend either Sonny Barger or George Wethern's memoirs.

This has got to be one of the worse books I have ever read. I kept waiting for the outlaw biker to show-up. The stories are mainly about anyone who rides a bike and actually takes it somewhere and things happen. He was shot and bitten be a rattle snake when he was a kid. And he was a brat at that. All of the stories were told from a high school humor point of view, none of them funny or really interesting. Save your money and buy one of Sonny Barger's or Hunter Thompson's books.

I'm not a biker, but one doesn't have to ride to get a rush from this witty and warm memoir. The author is a real character, and his personality is clearly in his pen as he recalls a life that is colorful, hard as the road he's traveled, and full of fireworks. Compared to Mr. Hayes's experiences, my own life barely makes it to pastel.

Surely Dead Eye Hayes has defied all actuarial tables to live long enough to write Outlaw Biker. I read this memoir at full throttle with fascination equal to passing an especially grisly wreck on the highway. The writing possesses sureness, authenticity, and maybe even a touch of poetry. If you have a rebellious teenager, don't read this book any time soon. This may just be the best book ever written by an author who's been shot twice, stabbed once, and bitten by a rattlesnake!

I was lucky enough to read this book before it came out in print. An interesting account of how Richard "Deadeye" became involved with the lifestyle of a biker. I learned some things about my brother I didn't know, and confirmed what I thought. You could almost hear Deadeye narrate the book to you.

You can never tell what is fact and what is fiction with these sorts of books but at least this one explained some stuff in detail that made me laugh out loud. Certainly some intersting stories amongst the chapters that kept me interested and goes some way to explain how bikers manage to live a certain kind of lifestyle outside of the law. I can't believe Deadeye can tell some of these stories without getting arrested. Mildly entertaining and worth a look!!