Editing Rock Machine Motorcycle Club (section)

{{Short description|Outlaw Motorcycle Club}}
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{{Infobox organization
| name                     = Rock Machine MC
| image                    = Rock machine mc.jpg<!--(filename only)-->
| image_size               = 212px<!--(defaults to 200px)-->
| caption                  = 
| founded                  = 1986
| founder                  = [[Salvatore Cazzetta]]
| founding_location        = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| type                     = [[Outlaw motorcycle club]]
| region                   = Worldwide - [[Canada]], [[United States]], [[Australia]], [[Germany]], [[England]] 
 [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Denmark]], [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Indonesia]]
| membership               = Estimated to have 2,000 active members across the globe, plus thousands of associates<ref>{{cite news|url=https://motorcyclehabit.com/famous-motorcycle-gangs-everything-youd-like-to-know/ |title = Famous Motorcycle Gangs: Everything You'd Like To Know {{!}} Motorcycle Habit| newspaper=Motorcycle Habit }}</ref>
| key_people               = *[[Giovanni Cazzetta]]
*[[Johnny Plescio]]
*[[Paul Porter (biker)|Paul "Sasquatch" Porter]]
*[[Renaud Jomphe]]
*[[Claude Vézina|Claude "Ti-Loup" Vézina]]
*[[Marcel Demers|Marcel "Le Maire" Demers]]
*[[Frédéric Faucher|Frédéric "Fred" Faucher]]
| website                  = https://rockmachinecanada.ca
}}
The '''Rock Machine Motorcycle Club''' ('''RMMC''') or '''Rock Machine''' is an international [[outlaw motorcycle club]] founded in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada in 1986. It has eighteen Canadian chapters spread across seven [[Canadian Provinces|provinces]].  It also has nine chapters in the United States and eleven chapters in Australia, with chapters also located in 24 other countries. It was formed in 1986, by [[Salvatore Cazzetta]] and his brother [[Giovanni Cazzetta]]. The Rock Machine competed with the [[Hells Angels]] for control of the street-level [[Illegal drug trade|narcotics trade]] in [[Quebec]].<ref name=BikerWars/> The [[Quebec Biker War]] saw the Rock Machine form an alliance with a number of other organizations to face the Hells Angels.<ref name="inside">
{{cite book |title=Angels of Death; Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire |last=Sher |first=Julian  |author2=Marsden, William  |year=2006  |publisher=Knopf Canada |isbn=0-676-97730-8 }}
</ref>{{page needed|date=April 2022}} The conflict occurred between 1994 and 2002 and resulted in over 160 deaths and over 300 injured.  An additional 100+ have been imprisoned.<ref name=Winterhalder2008>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YK45IAAACAAJ&q=%22the+assimilation%22| title = The Assimilation| author = Edward Winterhalder & Wil De Clercq| publisher = ECW Press | isbn=978-1-55022-824-3| year = 2008| access-date = 2010-05-14 }}</ref>

Common nicknames for the organization include "R.M.", "Black & Platinum", "RMMC", and "1813". The official Rock Machine club motto is "''A La Vie A La Mort''", or "To the Life Until Death". The club also possesses a patch that reads "RMFFRM" which stands for "Rock Machine Forever, Forever Rock Machine",  an extremely common tradition among outlaw motorcycle clubs.<ref name=BikerWars/>

The Rock Machine Motorcycle Club gained the status of a "Hang-around" club in May 1999 and after eighteen months, became a [[probation]]ary chapter of the [[Bandidos Motorcycle Club]] on 1 December 2000. [[Bandidos Motorcycle Club|Bandidos]] National Officer [[Edward Winterhalder]] was put in charge of overseeing the transition by Bandidos International President, George Wegers. The original version of the Rock Machine (1986–1999) in Canada changed their colors from black and platinum to red and gold in May 1999; their colors remained red and gold until they became "Full-Patch" Bandidos on 1 December 2001. In a "patch-over" ceremony at the Rock Machine's Kingston chapter clubhouse.<ref name=Winterhalder2008/>

A second version of the Rock Machine was founded in 2008 in Winnipeg under the leadership of Sean "Crazy Dog" Brown, adopting the original black and platinum colors as their patch.<ref name=Winterhalder2008/> The second version has no connection with the first version.

The club's racial policy is all-inclusive and possesses members from several different ethnicities including [[African Canadian]]/Americans. Despite the group's use of the [[Waffen SS]]'s double lightning bolt on one of their patches, it is mainly to show respect to the club's historical roots as opposed to the racial meaning of the symbol, due to large numbers of their founding members being a part of the SS Motorcycle Club. It is also worn due to its status in the motorcycle community. It is seen as an outlaw symbol, as society dictates people should not wear it, thus outlaws usually wear it as a sign of rebellion against societal standards as opposed to racial ideology.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

Since 2007, the club has spread across Canada and throughout several other countries worldwide, including the United States, Australia, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Hungary, Belgium, New Zealand, Sweden, Serbia, Norway, France, South Africa, England, Spain, Georgia, Hong Kong, Kosovo, Kuwait, Armenia, Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and Turkey. As of 2022, the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club has established over 120 chapters on five continents. In the 2000s, the Rock Machine allied themselves with fellow international Canadian motorcycle club the [[Loners Motorcycle Club]].<ref name="return">{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=b9f02309-f885-4e6e-b4b6-694bd69c06c8 |title=Biker gang Rock Machine trying to return to Canada |website=Canada.com |date=2008-09-30 |access-date=2012-02-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109132231/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=b9f02309-f885-4e6e-b4b6-694bd69c06c8 |archive-date=2012-11-09 }}</ref>