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"We are gathering research for a one hour documentary for MSNBC about bikers, the show will focus on different biker clubs, their lifestyles and their love and dedication to motorcycle riding. The plan is to follow various motorcycle clubs from all walks of life and document their lives. I would like to speak with a representative of the Silent Skulls M/C about our project, could you please email me with a contact number."
BBN Producer.

Read about Silent Skulls in a short blurb in this month's Thunder Press. This is the club I've waited thirty years for! Please send an application.

I'm writing because I've read about your club in a Scandinavian magazine called ScanBike. I've bee talking to a Silent Skull from Norway, he said I should check out the club website, and so I did. I'm a lone biker as everyone who are the Silent Skulls.

Word about the SSLB club is getting around the Delphi "Shadow Riders Forum". I checked out your web site and I want to join, I'll send in my application later. After paying taxes, I can't buy food and my wife and kids are a little pissed about that. Well, actually its after paying for my big bore upgrade, new exhaust system, and the taxes that I'm outta cash ... but those are just details. I ride a Harley and Honda both and see lots of attitudes that I don't want to deal with. I don't need to be in a club to feel safe, so I do a lot of riding alone or with one passenger. So I agree with your ideas. I wave to every biker I pass. Its not WHAT you ride, its THAT you ride. See you on the road. Keep the fleshy side up!

Heard about the club in THUNDER PRESS. Checked out your website and liked what I saw. Would you send me an application?

I am writing you today because I believe that I am a Silent Skull Lone Biker. I have had traditional MC club experience and found it mostly an unpleasant venture. I ask myself what do I stand for ? Where is my freedom ? I am doing mostly what the club wants not what I want. This is not freedom. When its just me and my bike I know who I am, I have my freedom, and I answer to no one. I ride with whom I chose to ride, with when ,and if I choose to ride with anyone. I feel trapped on my job, I cant wait to get on the road after work. I cant explain to people what its like to be a biker, they truly do not understand. I can't put into words the freedom of being on a bike alone with a thunderstorm on the horizon and smelling the ozone. This is the MC I have been searching for. A club of lone riders. If we meet that's great! Lets ride. If not maybe next time or maybe not. Please send me an application, I have been thinking about this for weeks and feel in my heart this is who I am.

Catfish

WOW! Sometimes fate has a way of directing our path as was today when I stumbled on your website. As a lifetime loner this is the club I want to belong to and I already live by your creed so what a perfect fit ,membership without any B.S. Plz send the membership info so I may begin this process thx again and kudos to the webmaster L4L Shadowchaser

Just came across your website. Always seen myself as being alone but never lonely. Also ridden on and off for nearly 20 years now. This seems like a perfect fit for me. I’d love to join and represent the values of the club and road. Could you send me an application form.
Greydog (UK)

I would like to join the Silent Skulls, I am a lone biker and a lifelong loner. I saw a guy buying beer at an off-sale bar with the Silent Skulls patch on his jacket. I checked you out on the internet and would love to join. It means something to me as a loner from Canada.

I am Sven from Belgium and I am thinking for a long time now to join your mc and came to a conclusion that I want to join I know it's for the rest of life but this is what I want. I answer all SAT questions and they are a perfect match for me. I have been riding 19 years every day winter and summer if been true it all snow rain sun wind... I ride alone and still love it. if you accept me as a member I will wear the colors with pride so if you find the time to read this let me know if I can join your MC.
Greetings from Belgium, Sven.

I have been riding for over 20 years. I've ridden everything from Hondas to Harleys. Although I enjoy pack rides, my true love is hitting the road solo and letting the pavement take me where it will. I truly believe in the saying, "It's not the destination....It's the ride" Even though I consider myself a "lone rider", I treat all bikers as my brothers and will help them whenever I can. I discovered the Silent Skulls while cruising' the 'net and knew right away that your club embodies everything I believe in. I would appreciate it if you could email me an application and I look forward to becoming a member of your "non" organization.
Bluesman

I visited the site end 2007. After the reading of all the information, I started to reflect. And now I am sure that I am a lone biker. So I would like to become a member.
Future SSLB Erik

Hello, I would like to become a member of Silent Skulls Lone Bikers. I do a lot of riding on my own, However being a Marine Engineer, I really don't get as much saddle time as I would like. I am e-mail from Canada Vancouver BC. This is the kind of club I can relate to.
Richard

Just want to wish all the Silent Skulls and happy holiday period. I want to gain membership as soon as I can. Just waiting to build up some money.

Ride hard, Die free!!

Gypsy.

To live the life of lonely ridding is an achievement I'm proud of. Although your site only invites, I will like to invite myself. I respect the values and live by them everyday. If you would like a member from Germany then send me the application and I'll fill out and return with fee.
Bill in Germany

please forward me a membership application form, I'm a 48yr old biker who been riding for 32years,from what I've seen on your website spins my wheels down here in Australia, my riding brother told me about the Silent Skulls, so please forward me an application, I'm looking forward to hearing back from you guys.
Moose in Australia.

I am all for your philosophy as to what the Silent Skulls are about... ever since my first ride on a bike, at 6 years of age, I have been an independent rider, never conforming to rules thrown at me left and right....now at 41, all I got is my bike to help me through the lonely times. As I spread my eyes over every inch of you site these past few days, and as my jaw fell from my skull to the floor, I knew I was looking at a great brotherhood because I totally agree with your insights as some are of my own thoughts and I accept your invite to be a part of the Silent Skulls. Please send me an application!
Wylie in Tx, USA.

my name is Jean-Claude from Ronse (Belgium) by surfing the internet I have found your wonderful motorcycling club. I'm riding alone for 19 years now and decided to join your club so please send me an application form, so I can join

kind regards j-c in Belgium.

Hello again!! It was very cold, foggy, rainy late last night, (11-09-07) after I picked up my Chopper I went for a cruise, I yelled "SILENT SKULLS" many times!

I ride alone, I have friends, but I ride alone. I NEED TO JOIN SILENT SKULLS LONE BIKERS MC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What do I have to do??? For the love of humanity

Deacon..

Holy Crap Batman!! I can't believe I found some others just like me!! HOLY CRAP!!! I have been out there in the wind on my own, living the life and missing out !! I know what you say, I feel it, I live it, I demand it. Please send me the application and let's get this party rolling!!!!
Deacon.

My name is Ozkan, I'm from Turkey. ı meet sslb Bull from Belgıum and he asked me to join your club, so I read your website and ask now for my an application form.
Ozkan, Turkey.

Please email me an application. I'm familiar with the Silent Skulls and understand their beliefs. I've been riding since I was 14, and I am now 53. I understand other bike clubs, their politics, their policies and beliefs - which I can respect. But I have chosen to ride alone or with another Skulls without having to go to organized church meetings, MMA meetings or club houses and runs if I choose not to. I do not sponsor or represent any other club or organization; I like to do it my way. I am a professional, I have a successful business, and yet I have experienced the other side of the fence in my youth.
I'm married with two grown daughters and five grandchildren. I own a Road King, Street Bob and a 1200 Custom Sportster. I look forward to your reply.
Brad in CA, USA.

I passed the SAT test. I've been riding alone for many years while still remaining a part of the overall Australian bike scene. I have done time with a club but the politics and personalities take away the enjoyment and freedom of riding where and when you like.We have some good country here in Australia and I would like to see a lot more of it before I die and doing that on a bike has to be the best way I know.
I'm very interested in becoming a member of S.S.L.B. After more than 30 years of riding I believe I have done time enough to wear the S.S.L.B. patches with pride. Could you please e-mail me an application form.
Steve in Sydney, Australia.

Greeting... I would respectfully ask that a membership application be sent to me. I have reviewed all info I could find on SSLBMC, and I am delighted that there are "kindred" spirits, who don't fit into others' molds of what we should be like, or identified with. I always knew what I felt inside regarding my "motorcycle relationship", but never thought I would find others like me. I feel like every word on your website have been in my head long before I actually saw it written down on the home website. My decision is sure, my devotion to the Silent Skulls is undiluted.
Kenneth in AK, USA.

I had just viewed your web page (yep all of it ) I just wish I had found about you lot years ago. I am a 54yr young lone rider in the UK. having in the past ridden with others and all the s++t that it carries. I now realize I enjoy my own company the best (ok I do ride with a few close friends now and again) I have spent a couple of weeks looking and reading what you have to say. I would like to be part of your club. with no rules doing what I love to do RIDE FREE and go where/when I want. yet at the same time knowing you are part of a bigger brotherhood must be the way to go and so I am asking you for a membership form please.

john in UK

My name is Dave, a bud of mine told me about your club and said I was perfect for it. So I checked it out and thought you guys had a kickass creed and thought right on that's a club for me. I ride alone a lot and got a 18 on SAT because I don't wear a patch and I don't like to ride in packs. After going thru your site I was really into the whole SSLB, thought about it for a couple of months and yelling "I am a Silent Skull Lonely Biker" while riding thru Mojave at 1am in the morning made my mind up as what to do. So hook me up with an app.

I am a lone biker and always wanted to join a club that shared the same values as me; however, this is difficult to find until now. I have reviewed your entire web site and thoroughly enjoyed it and found it to be everything that I have already believed in. I greatly appreciate it if you would send me an application so that I may join this club of lone bikers. I feel that what you stand for and how you treat every biker is awesome. For once a club which does not display any kind of prejudice, please keep up the excellent work.

My name is Michael, and I did not know I was a Silent Skull til I came across your website. It feels like I have known, but did not know where I belong!! Anyway please send me the membership information. I look forward to belonging to what I didn't know I have known all along!!!!

My name is Terry "Gypsy" and I would like to become a Silent Skulls Lone Biker. Everything that you all stand for is embedded deep within my own belief. I feel as though I was born to be a Silent Skull. Being a Silent Skull is in my heart and is running through my veins as well as being a state of mind. I have been through the website and have thought about the membership long and hard, and I believe that I can and will commit to what the patch stands for and will wear it with great respect, honor and pride. I live in New Zealand, I look forward to hearing back from you.

My name is Maria and I come from Sweden. Silent Skulls is the kind of club I would like to join. My husband is already a member of the club, so I know what it`s about to be a SSLB. Please send me an
application.

Hi SSLB MC, I am 44 yrs old and of New Zealand descent, I have been riding motorcycles most of my life, and most of that has been as a lone wolf biker who just enjoys his bike, the road and the experience. My father taught me to ride on his old Triumph Bonneville 650cc, and also taught me the importance of wrenching (working on) your own bike. After finding your website and reading through the information and creed a few times, I am very impressed with the SSLB views and creed and lone biker code. I would therefore like to apply for an application membership pack to join the "Silent Skulls Lone Bikers MC.
Kind regards Karl "Wolf" from New Zealand.

I took your SAT and I learned a lot about myself in doing so. I answered yes to 19 of the questions. (I'll shout on my way home tonight and get that one too). I never really fit in with any group. Besides, being in the military doesn't leave any time to be part of a big group that I have to be there for 24/7. I feel like I'm a lone biker. I'm there for myself all the time and when I'm not working I'm riding. I think I'm definitely ready to make a commitment to something that I do so well already. If you would have me, I would like to fill out an application.
Scott in FL, USA

I would like to have an application sent to me so that I might join the club, I ride a chopper and have been riding most of my life alone and like it that way. I just can't get enough riding guess I'll ride till I bone or rot in the saddle and go to that hwy in the sky and ride on. I have told the old lady that when that day comes to put the bike in the ground with me not need to have to build another one when this on does so good.

Country Bear in USA

I am 42 yrs old, of New Zealand descent and have been riding for most of my adult life, I currently ride a 2005 American Triumph Bonneville. After finding your website and reading through the information - I found myself thinking 'This really sounds like me!! - and how I should apply right now. Like many riders here in New Zealand, and indeed all across the world, the violence, drugs and police hassle that go with outlaw clubs and gangs is not an attractive style of hardcore riding or world that I aspire too. We have some magnificent tar seal here in NZ that goes from wide open plains to windy trails through mountain tops in in few short miles. Some of the MC clubs are fighting street gangs over drugs here at the moment so the biking world is quite -it will pass. I tend to steer clear of any outlaw biker events - as I am sure if you have ever heard or seen the level of meanest in NZ bikers you will quickly understand why I choose - along many others - to do so. Therefore, I would like to formally make an application to go through the necessary procedures to join your club - if you will have me. I hope to hear back from you soon.

All the Best - Riding in da South'n Hemisphere, Na NekeRangi

The first time I thought about joining the SSLB was some 3 years ago, but I'm in no hurry - membership is for life right? I score 19 points on the Skulls Aptitude Test, now, as I did 3 years ago - so I feel I'm ready. I ride a Triumph Bonneville (new one) with some minor modifications I've done on it myself.
Jan in Norway.

To whoever does the paper work. I have been a member all my life just have never found out how to join the club till now. So I hope this gets to you still unsure if you email the App to join or if you need my address so you have email now.. will include home address.
Rob in CO, USA.

I have been checking out the SSLBs group for some time. I am interested in joining such a free and credible club as this but I'm not sure what I need to do. Please let me know how to go about joining.

Dear Sir, 15 years ago I had purchased my first motorcycle after a day of riding by myself that Iwould get bored of it. Well I purchased 3 more motorcycles since then I am still riding alone and loving it. I read your website and felt like reading about myself. I answered your 20 questions and passed. So I thought I would drop you a line and if you could send me an application. I would very much appreciate it and am looking forward to be a part of the brotherhhood.
Forever, Paul in Canada.

Hello, my name is Bjørn – nickname “biker bear” (“bjørn” = “bear” in Norway).

I'm 47 years old, and have been riding bikes since I was 16. I stumbled across your website a while ago - and have been reading - and reading….

"............ride without all the rules and regulations set forth by clubs or associations------ silent in the fact that our riding does the talking........."

This is me, this is exactly what I am and has been for over 30 years. I am ready to become a freeway member. Please send me a membership application on this mail.

Bjorn in Norway

Howdy, after countless hours of browsing the web site and decision making...I am requesting an application for the SSLB. I once prospected for a serious MC, it wasn't for me with my schedules and life outside of the club. Id like to belong to a group of like minded individuals, but not to the point that I can loose everything I have because the club needs me for something. It looks like the SSLBs may be just what I wanted.

Stinger in USA.

Send me a membership app. I can dig everything the skulls are about. I know one skull in Japan also. He told me about the group. I'm in NE Arkansas and tired of the club shit around here. I ride on my own because no one can keep up or wants to go anywhere.
CD in USA.

This site and the MC is awesome. For many years (12) I hand been riding alone on my ironhead searching for an MC like this. I like to ride alone and ride free, so this is the ultimate opportunity. I am looking forward to hear from you soon, and if it's possible, become a member of the world's best and free MC.
Corald in Bosnia

I am 51 one years old and have been a hang around in a few m/c clubs and did not like acting like someone's dog to try and go though the prospect period and other people wanting to know every thing about my life or who I knew or what I had to wear and so on .so never have joined any of them. I have been riding alone all over the USA since 17 years old, but I am a man likes to ride alone. I'am a certified Master Harley Davidson mechanic so I have helped a lot of bikers from all walks of life get their bikes going or just build one or fix it up. But I am a lone biker, I love the creed of this club. Please can I get a membership package for I am a Lone Biker by heart and blood.

Royal Brown in USA

I came across your web site after seeing the patch on a biker forum. I was impressed with the spirit of the words I read on the site and the fact that the club has been around for over fourty years. The idea of a group of like minded bikers who all enjoy their two-wheeled independency appeals to me. I'd never not wave to or stop for another biker regardless of what they ride, what (colors) they wear, or what they look like. We're all one per centers when it comes down to four wheels vs. two so we have to stick together. But in the end, we all take the final ride alone. Send an app please, I'm ready to affiliate.
David

I work on a NATO base in Bosnia and I have my 2001 Harley Softail with me........I like the Classic Patch the most but both will do very well. When I'm not overseas working, I live in Georgia where I was born and raised 56 yrs ago. I've been riding a long time Huh? The website is way cool man! I found your website thru this link:
http://www.arn1e.co.uk/motorcycle-clubs/motorcycle-clubs-S-to-T.htm
I was looking for some club I could affiliate with and yours is Perfect!!! OK, enough said, don't want ya'll to get the big head over this flattery shit....   THANKS for being there! Hope to hear from ya'll real soon!!
Joseph in Bosnia

Hello friends, to be very happy with return of the previous email. I wait that I am to be accepted in the SSLB, makes much time to travel alone that I follow the SSLBs.
Erley in Brazil

Hello I read about your club in a Scandinavian magazine called ScanBike. I checked out your website few months ago and liked what I saw. Now I have decided that I want to be a Silent Skull. I have been riding alone for 11 years now .Would you send me an membership application.

Geir in Norway.

I am 35 year old biker from the north of the planet Sweden to be precisely. I would like to join the Silent Skulls Lone Biker MC. I've been riding since I was 20 and I feel that this club have the philosophy of motorcycle riding and everything that comes with that that I like and stand for. I would appreciate if you could send me a membership application form.
Christian in SWEDEN

While I was looking on the Internet, trying yet again to find a motorcycle club to join, I found your site. I almost cried when I read it. These SSLB folks are me, and they expressed things I've been thinking for a long long time.

I've been riding since 1982, back then women riders were rare. I learned to work on my bikes 'cause I had to - the shops always tried to screw me over, and besides - I never had the money to pay them anyway but I was damn proud to kick over my '77 Yamaha RD400 and show them that :YES! WOMEN CAN RIDE!

My whole life I rode alone, never with a club and rarely even with other riders. I never have been much of a joiner, and riding alone means you get to do whatever you want, so that's what I do. Now that there are more clubs for women, I just can't find one I can ever envision myself belonging to. I've been riding by myself for so damned long, I'm just used to it. When I saw on your site the words "Lone Bikers are not afraid to turn left when everybody else turns right," I knew I was a Silent Skull Lone Biker. I ride my own, I ride alone, and I don't need anyone to guide me. I can do that all by myself.

So send me the membership packet. I'll be just as proud to wear these colors as I am to have ridden alone and on my own all these years.

Chris in USA

I have been riding alone for over 20 years. I often wondered if there are other like minds. Each time I have tried to ride with a group I would find myself branching off the beaten trail. It was on a long stretch of country road I came to the conclusion, I enjoy riding alone, my way, my time, my speed and my own style of riding, on the machine of my choice. It was like I finally made peace with myself. As I read the SSLBs' CLUB
CREED, it was like all the words I have tried to use to describe what I live, written on a page. Finally!! I appreciate fully the self identification. Not being alone at being alone is great. Anyway I GET IT, and have for many years. I would be honored to be included in something I believe in and live every day of my life. I will continue to uphold the value of the creed.

This is what I'm looking for more than you will ever know. I have been asked many times to join a club and my answer has always been the same "I like riding alone". I ride to work every day and always on the weekends in rain, sun. I have even done the snow a few times...Although not recommended. I am very interested in a membership and any information would be great...Although your website says it all. Hope to see you on the road and if not take care !
Troy in USA

I e-mailed you on the 26 of Jan 06 requesting a membership application.....Just wondering if it has been send out...I have read your site a dozen times and this club is exactly what I need. I had been on the route of 1% clubs, riding clubs, cruising clubs, clubs that became social clubs with all the rules...I have been riding lone for 20 years now, go where I want when I want. I am awaiting to join your club and would be proud.
Ken in Canada

Sir, l myself have been riding for over 20 years, I've been a member of clubs from hog to mc , all here in the UK. For the past 5 years l have been riding alone, and that's the way l like it, l go where l want when l want, in the sun, the rain and even snow. l go to bike meets on my own. l don't need the rules and look's of a local club, l don't like to be told who l can talk to and who l can't. l like being alone, and that's why l'm so happy to have found your club's web page, and now ask with respect if you would be so kind as to invite me to be a member a loyal member at that,

l look forward to hearing from you soon, with l hope good news, l'll be only happy to help the clubs web page with pics etc... Everywhere l go and wear my patch with pride. Ride free, bro, ride safe.

Max (England, UK)

I visited your website and read it thoroughly. I agree with your creed and abide with all of your FAQ. Thus, I would like to request an application for membership to the Silent Skulls.

I have been a lone rider for years and just found out about the "silent skulls". I would like to apply for membership but need to know the procedures involved. I have ridden into the wind with the sun at my back and down many deserted roads. I have been looking for an organization like this for years to give me a chance to meet others of my own mind set. May you always have the wind in your face, sun at your back and 2 wheels on the ground. Please send me an application to become a member.

I would very much like to be considered as a candidate for application to the Silent Skulls. I have been a lone rider for many years and didn't know a club like this existed. I just happened to run across it and took the test and scored 19-20 and it is something I have been searching for many years.

I have enjoyed the care and feeding of others along the road...often they weren't bikers, just Skulls who never joined. Old dudes, women, you name it. I have always taught my kids--through my actions--that it's good to join nothing in life, unless of course you are so moved you can't help yourself. They both got the message. I always get behind the ethic that "it isn't what's under you, it's that you're on top of it."
Will in MI, USA.

Read your entire site, and this stands for exactly what I am, what I represent and who I will always be. Keep the rubber side down!!!!

I would like to say, you have a great web page, very informative. The way of life that you described fits me to a tee. Please send me an application for your consideration on my membership.
Barry in FL, USA.

I stumbled across your web sight about a year ago and thought this is exactly what I have been looking for. But I couldn't remember the name of the club or find it again until a couple of days ago. I was very excited to re-read the what you are all about and it is with out a doubt me. I have been riding most of my life, foreign bikes as a kid and later my own ground up custom. The first ride I went on with a group, I remember someone announcing themselves as road captain and starting to tell me in what position I would be riding and what the rules were. I like these guys but I didn't come to this on my day off to take orders and follow more rules.

Please send an application to the attached E-mail address. I won't bore you with why I think I should or shouldn't be a part of the Silent Skulls, accept to say that I do enjoy meeting others when I'm out riding and would like to know that I'm approaching someone of like mind when I walk up and shake the hand of a fellow SSLB patch-holder.
Pete in WA, USA.

I've been visiting your site for probably over a year now, I feel I am now ready to commit. When you wake up in the morning and your first thoughts are of your ride, when you go to sleep at night and your last thoughts are of your ride, then you're a Lone Biker.

I am e-mailing you to ask about your membership in Great Britian. Me and my mate Kev have both been on the biking seen for 20 odd years . Kev rides a Suzuki 1400 intruder and I ride a Kawasaki z 1000 custom. Could you e-mail us back with membership form or let us know what to do next.
Gary & Kev in England.

Wow! I just found your website surfing the net. I've been riding "flying couches" for the past thirty years. I just bought a traditional cruiser and I'm having the time of my life. I've been riding alone for most of my life. I didn't think there were similar minded folks out there. I read all the material on the SS website. I agree with the philosophy of riding 100%. I would love to join the Silent Skulls. Please send me an application.

Dale in WA, USA.