Editing Rock Machine Motorcycle Club (section)

===Past members===
Former members of the club included [[Salvatore Cazzetta]], [[Giovanni Cazzetta]], [[Claude Vézina]], [[Paul Porter (biker)|Paul Porter]], Andrew Sauvageau, Marcel Demers, Richard "Bam-Bam" Lagacé, [[Johnny Plescio]], Tony Plescio, Renaud Jomphe (the former president of the Montreal chapter), Martin Bourget, Serge Pinel, [[Frédéric Faucher]], Alain Brunette (who would become the first national president of the Canadian Bandidos in 2001), Jean Paul Beaumont,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brandonsun.com/local/dead-inmate-linked-to-rock-machine-174357721.html|title=high ranking member of the Rock Machine killed behind bars|website=Brandonsun.com|date=16 October 2012 }}</ref> and [[Peter Paradis]] (who became its first member to turn crown's evidence).

The Rock Machine was merged with the Bandidos Motorcycle Club on 6 January 2001, in a patch-over ceremony located at the Rock Machine's Kingston chapter clubhouse. It was overseen by high-ranking Bandidos member [[Edward Winterhalder]].<ref name=Winterhalder2008/> They remained Bandidos for seven years. Around ten Rock Machine members at the time joined their former arch-enemy, the Hells Angels, due to the Bandidos refusal to grant full members status to "Full-Patch" members of the Rock Machine forcing them to become probationary members of the Bandidos and take a reduction in ranking, this angered some members along with abandoning the Rock machine namesake for a Texas-based entity, it was felt by some that the Bandidos patch with its cartoonish drawing of a Mexican bandit was "silly". Furthermore, Stadnick offered Hells Angels membership on a "patch-for-patch" basis, allowing members to trade their current patches for equivalent Hells Angels. Many Rock Machine had gained respect from the Hells Angels that they had faced during the conflict and saw them as a better alternative.

Notable members who defected to the Angels included original members Paul Porter and Andrew Sauvageau. "Full-Patch" members Gilles Lambert, Nelson Fernandes, Bruce Doran (who founded the Kingston chapter), and Fred Faucher's brother Jean Judes Faucher. Fernandes would die of cancer within months of becoming a Hells Angel. Upon his release, club founder Salvatore Cazzetta joined Hells Angels in 2005, as the Rock Machine had merged with the Bandidos and was no longer active at the time.{{sfn|Cherry|2005}}{{page needed|date=April 2022}}