Editing Rock Machine Motorcycle Club (section)

==Second incarnation==
In 2007, the former Winnipeg chapter of the Bandidos renamed themselves the Rock Machine.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=224}} After the first president of the Winnipeg Bandido chapter, [[Michael Sandham]], was arrested in June 2006, he was replaced as president by Ron Burling, who became the driving force behind the new Rock Machine.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=227}} The second version of the Rock Machine has no connection with the first version, and just uses the name and the same patch.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=227}} The website of the second version of the Rock Machine has a "gone, but not forgotten" section devoted to murdered members that failed to list a single Rock Machine biker killed during the Quebec Biker War, but listed the eight Bandidos killed in the Shedden Massacre.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=227-228}}

Typical of the members of the Rock Machine was the president of the Winnipeg chapter, Ron Burling, described by the journalist [[Jerry Langton]] as a man with a shaven head, bushy goatee beard, his entire body covered in tattoos except for his face, and "physically huge".{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=224}} Burling's Facebook profile described him as "a member of the Rock Machine Nomads" and his occupation as "Edmonton Maximum Security Penitentiary General Population".{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=224}} He had been convicted of a brazen kidnapping and assault in Toronto. On 8 February 2005, as a member of the Bandidos, Burling smashed through the window of a car to yank out a drug dealer named Adam Amundsen.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=225}} Burling then beat Amundsen for several hours with a baseball bat and his fists to encourage him to pay a $6,000 drug debt owned to the Bandidos.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=226}} Burling was convicted of assault and kidnapping, and threatened both the judge and the crown attorneys with violence when his appeal was quashed.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=225}} Burling tried to lift the bench to throw at somebody, but was tasered by the court marshals.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=225}} Burling was one of the founding members of the new Rock Machine in 2008.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=225}} Langton mocked the claims that the second Rock Machine had no connections with criminality, noting that Burling had joined the Rock Machine while he was in prison for assault.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=227}} Most of the chapters of the second Rock Machine exist only on the internet.{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=228}} One policeman told Langton about the Rock Machine: "Internet bikers? LOL!"{{sfn|Langton|2010|p=228}}

On 19 September 2008, two Australian men with criminal records, Michael Xanthoudakis and Eneliko Sabine, were arrested at Winnipeg airport, and it was revealed that the duo had gone to Winnipeg to join the Rock Machine.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=226-228}} On 1 October 2008, the Rock Machine officially announced its existence to the media.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=228}} The spokesman for the Rock Machine claimed it had 75 members, but none in Quebec "out of respect for the Hells Angels".{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=228}} The Quebec biker war had made the name Rock Machine well known and a chapter had founded in Australia.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=228}} The claims of the Rock Machine to have a chapter in Daytona Beach, Florida seems to have no foundation in reality.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=228}} The party that was supposed to announce the new Rock Machine was attended by only three people.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=228-229}} The headquarters of the new Rock Machine is Winnipeg, not Montreal.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=229}} On 3 June 2009, Jean Paul Beaumont, the sergeant-at-arms of the Winnipeg chapter was arrested for having two assault rifles in his house.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=253}} On 1 December 2009, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched Project Divide and arrested 34 people who were all Hells Angels or Zig Zag Crew members.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=232}} The arrests allowed the Rock Machine to fill the vacuum and the a puppet gang, the Vendettas MC, was founded in early 2010.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=233}} The brutal way that the Winnipeg Hells Angels chapter operated had a number of enemies who all joined the Winnipeg chapter of the Rock Machine such as Gregg Hannibal and Billy Bowden, a former Hells Angel.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=240}}

In March 2010, the Winnipeg police bugged a warehouse on Sargent Avenue which turned to be used by the Rock Machine to sell cocaine.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=241}} Ronald King of the Rock Machine was arrested and found to be carrying $463, 000 in cash on him.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=241}} In September 2010, a major division in the Rock Machine emerged about whatever the group should try to open a chapter in Montreal.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=242}} Jamie "J.C." Korne, the vice president of the Winnipeg chapter was against opening a chapter in Montreal under the grounds that it was too dangerous, which led to his expulsion on 2 September 2010.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=242}} Sean "Dog" Brown, the national president of the Rock Machine was deposed in November 2010 over the question of the Montreal chapter and was replaced by Joseph "Critical J" Strachan, who at the age of 40 still lived at home with his parents.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=243-244}} On 15 December 2010, Andrew Block, a Rock Machine biker, was murdered in Edmonton.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=245-246}}

On 22 March 2011, a Rock Machine biker, Ashley Sandison, contracted his estranged wife despite a restraining order forbidding him from contacting her, which led a shoot-out with the police who had arrived at the house of Mrs. Sandison.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=248}} On 29 June 2011, the home of Strachan's parents in Winnipeg were destroyed in a case of arson after Molotov cocktail was tossed into the house.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=249-250}} On 10 July 2011, a business associated with the Hells Angels and the home of a Redlined Support Crew (Hells Angels puppet gang) were burned down.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=250}} On 12 July 2011, the house of a Redlined Support Crew member was shot up and a 14-year-old boy was wounded.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=250-251}} On 9 August 2011, the police arrested two members of the Vendettas, Guy Stevenson and Joseph Choken, for attempting to kill a Hells Angel associate.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=254=255}} On 11 August 2011, the home of another Redlined Support Crew member was burned down in a case of arson.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=252}} On 12 August 2011, the tattoo shop owned by Wayne Nuytten, a Hells Angels associate was burned down in another case of arson.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=252=253}} Two Rock Machine members, Taylor Morrision and Shaine Stodgell, were convicted of the arson attacks.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=253}}

Chevy Ballentyne, a Winnipeg drug dealer who once worked for the Manitoba Warriors and had been convicted of the murder of Guy Poliout, was arrested for a vicious stabbing spree on 23 December 2009.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=256-257}} Once Ballentyne was convicted of assault on 17 August 2011, it was revealed that he was a Rock Machine member.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=257}} On 2 February 2012, the police launched Operation Deplete, which to the seizure of 6, 912 grams of cocaine, 465 grams of crack cocaine, 272 grams of methamphetamine, 9, 811 Ecstasy pills and 501 tablets of oxycodone.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=258}} Arrested were two Rock Machine members, Billy Bowden and Joshua Lyons.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=258}} On 14 October 2012, Beaumont was murdered in prison.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=263-264}} On 30 January 2013, the Rock Machine national president Strachan was arrested at his parents house on charges of drug trafficking.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=253}} Also arrested were Rock Machine "full patch" members Todd Murray, John Curwin, and Cameron Hemminger along with the "prospects' Donny Syraxa, Danny Tran, Patrcik La, Chris Camara, Tegveer Sinh Gill an Richard Lund.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=265}} The police seized 16 pounds of cocaine along with six guns, two pipe bombs and ammunition.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=265}} In a plea bargain with the Crown on 13 June 2013, Strahan made guilty pleas to the charges of drug trafficking and gangsterism.{{sfn|Langton|2015|p=266}}

===Allies===
*[[Outlaws Motorcycle Club]] - The Outlaws motorcycle club had initially given minor support to the Rock Machine during the Quebec Biker War, The Outlaws were also fighting a conflict with the Hell's Angels during this period. An official alliance would be formed between the resurrected Rock Machine and the Outlaws in Manitoba in 2011.
*[[Gremium Motorcycle Club]] - During the club's expansion into Europe, it made an alliance with Gremium MC, one of the largest motorcycle clubs in Germany.
*[[Loners Motorcycle Club]] - A fellow Canadian-based international motorcycle club, an alliance between the two was established in the 2010s.
*[[Vendettas Motorcycle Club]] - A RMMC created support club that was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Serves as an international support club for the Rock Machine with chapters in Canada, Australia and Russia.
*[[Manitoba Warriors]] - A Native-Canadian gang based in the Canada's prairies, an alliance was formed between the two groups during Rock Machine's expansion into Western Canada in 2008.
*[[Bandidos Motorcycle Club|Bandidos]] (formerly, 1999–2006) - The Rock Machine became a chapter of the Bandidos in mid-1999. After 18 months, they became an official probationary club. All members of the Rock Machine were patched into the Bandidos on 6 January 2001. They would remain as a single entity until the events of the [[Shedden Massacre]] and the subsequent closure of the Bandidos MC Canada. The Rock Machine was reestablished by former Bandidos, and disgruntled members of the [[Mongols Motorcycle Club]].

===Rivals===
*[[Hells Angels]] (1986–2002) - The Hells Angels' actions during the [[Lennoxville massacre]] directly led to the creation of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club itself. Despite this, the two clubs existed in relative harmony until the 1994 arrest of Rock Machine President, Salvatore Cazzetta. From 1994 to 2002, the Rock Machine and the Hells Angels engaged in the deadliest motorcycle conflict in history. This cemented their rivalry. There have been several sporadic incidents since then.
*[[Rebels Motorcycle Club]] - The rivalry between the Rock Machine and the Rebels Motorcycle Club started when the Canadian club expanded into Australia. This saw the beginning of the [[Rock Machine-Rebels conflict]].
*[[Red Devils Motorcycle Club]] - the Red Devils are the official support club of the Hells Angels, they have had several incidents with the Rock Machine.
*[[Bandidos Motorcycle Club]] (2011–present) - Tensions between the Bandidos and Rock Machine started in the mid-2000s, with the Shedden Massacre and the dissolution of the Bandidos Canada driving a wedge between the reemerging Rock Machine and their former ally. The rivalry escalated into conflict in 2011, when the two clubs clashed for control of the German city of Ulm. There has since been several conflicts fought between the two groups in multiple countries.
*WolfSSChanze Faction - a splinter faction of the Rock Machine led by Suat Erköse. The faction changed their emblem in 2022.

===Meeting with the Pagans===
For decades the [[Pagans Motorcycle Club]] had looked north to Canada for possibility of expansion. It also found the idea of supporting Hells Angels rivals beneficial. The Rock Machine Motorcycle Club, a Canadian-based international motorcycle club with chapters all over the world, has fought several conflicts with the [[Hells Angels]] including the [[Quebec Biker War]], the deadliest motorcycle conflict in history. The Pagans deeply respected these feats and sought to establish a relationship with the Rock Machine. In 2011, dozens of the Pagans traveled to the Canadian province of [[New Brunswick]] to meet with the several chapters of the Rock Machine and other locals. At the time New Brunswick was a Canadian province that had little outlaw motorcycle influence. The meeting was to consolidate a friendship and probe the province for expansion.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 December 2011 |title=Gangsters Out Blog: Pagans visit Rock Machine in New Brunswick |url=https://gangstersout.blogspot.com/2011/12/pagans-visit-rock-machine-in-new.html |access-date=21 October 2023 |website=gangstersout.blogspot.com}}</ref> However, in 2018, Pagans member, Andrew "Chef" Glick revealed that the group had abandoned its plans at expansion North, they cited Canada's anti-biker laws but also a large part of the reason was that Canadian Hells Angels are considered particularly violent members of the outlaw biker – or "one percenter" – community, Glick said in an interview.

<blockquote>"In Canada and Australia, that's where the heaviest (toughest) one per centers are," Glick said. "Being a one per center in Canada, I would say is a little more dangerous than being a one per center in the U.S." New Jersey bikers are tough, but "not near as violent as what I've seen and read (about) in Montreal and Toronto."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/03/08/new-jersey-bikers-opted-out-of-expanding-to-canada-us-court-hears.html|title = New Jersey bikers opted out of expanding to Canada, U.S. Court hears|newspaper = The Toronto Star|date = 8 March 2018|last1 = Edwards|first1 = Peter}}</ref></blockquote>