Highway 61 Motorcycle Club

Highway 61 Motorcycle Club
Founded1968
Founding locationAuckland, New Zealand
Years active1968–present
TerritoryNew Zealand and Australia
Criminal activitiesDrug dealing, rape, theft, murder

The Highway 61 Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club based in New Zealand and also operating in Australia. The Committee on Gangs report of 1981 (known as the Comber Report) said they were one of the two largest of the 20 outlaw motorcycle gangs in New Zealand.[1] In the 1990s they were the largest in the country.[2] They were still the largest in 2010,[3] even though their membership numbers had declined.[4] As of 2019 they were considered one of the ten main gangs (including motorcycle gangs and ethnically based gangs) in the country.[5] Their membership is largely people of Māori and Pacific Island ethnicities.[6] Their colours are black and gold.[7]

Highway 61 members in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2007
  1. ^ Gilbert 2013, p. 108.
  2. ^ Gilbert 2013, p. 215.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Te Ara was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Gilbert 2013, p. 241-242.
  5. ^ Leask, Anna (14 August 2019). "Gangbusters: patches on the rise as NZ gang scene 'revitalised'". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  6. ^ Gilbert 2013, p. 109.
  7. ^ "Highway 61 MC (Motorcycle Club)". 21 May 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.