Road Knights Motorcycle Club

Road Knights Motorcycle Club
Founded1979
TerritoryInvercargill, Dunedin, Timaru

The Road Knights Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club that operates in the South Island of New Zealand with a presence in Invercargill, Dunedin, and Timaru. Since 2012, new chapters have been formed in Thailand, Netherlands and the United States.[1]

Its rivalry with the Mongrel Mob boiled over in June 2008 in Invercargill when the Road Knights' building was burned down and two motorcycles stolen.[2] The motorcycles were later found by police at the local Mongrel Mob headquarters but had been set on fire.[2] Two Mongrel Mob members were charged with the arson.[3]

As of 2009, Road Knights membership in New Zealand was low and former leadership had dispersed, died or gone to jail.[4]

  1. ^ "Chapters". Road Knights. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Gang tensions on knife edge", The Southland Times, 2008-06-19, retrieved 2010-08-02
  3. ^ "Two Mob members charged over Road Knights fire", Otago Daily Times, 2008-07-09, retrieved 2010-08-02
  4. ^ "Patch Work", The Timaru Herald, July 31, 2009, retrieved 2013-07-29