Why Bikers are always getting beat up by Mobsters?

I haven't seen this movie yet, but did Danny take out an entire crew of Bikers or was it a man-to-man fight? Bikers may look and act scary with their tattoos and burly frames but for the most part they're just like most guys who put up a front of intimidation.

I'm not really well-read in the inner-workings of biker gangs, but just from hearing in local and national news stories they don't seem the type to really execute brutal force and intimidation on people outside of their inner-circle. Compared to a Mexican Cartel gang, bikers seem nothing more than a social club for guys who like to ride motor bikes, nothing more.

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There is a scene in Stone Cold when the sadistic biker gang meets a bunch of mobsters in a restaurant. They place a bike helmet on the table, and inside is the head of a mafioso. The gangsters are frightened into cooperating.

"...if that was off, I'd be whoopin' your ass up and down this street." ~ an irate Tarantino

I kept wondering, "is this an homage to A Bronx Tale and maybe The Sopranos?" If it was, it was unnecessary, unless of course it actually happened. You can see it coming from a mile away when Danny Green and his family first moved into the poor neighborhood. Plus, there's never repercussions in mob movies for beating up these bikers, which rings false.

I'd imagine that back in the sixties and seventies, patched-in "1%" bikers were stone-cold killers. A majority of them were disillusioned Vietnam vets who were on crank. Combine that with PTSD, and you'd have a gang of vengeful lunatics who wouldn't take a beating lightly.

I remember a line from Hunter S. Thompson's book on Hell's Angels, where one of their Mamas/OleLadies says:

"any two Angels can take any five other guys"

I wonder how many times she had actually seen credible testing of that theory, but, yeah..

As for 'Bikers vs Organised crime guys", here, these days, Bikers, or at least Lebanese muslim aholes who would not know one end of a motorcycle from the other but have somehow wound up wearing patches such as Bandidos, --ARE-- organised crime.
So there would be no conflict.

Yes. Bikers beat up everyone in Sons of Anarchy.

As for Danny Greene, one look at his history should make it clear why the chances of any bikers in that clubhouse ending a fight with him conscious were remote at best. Besides that, there are a lot of Har(d)ley riders out there. They come complete with realistic chain wallet, henna tattoo, un-manicured beard, bike, and attitude but Sunday night they are in full transformation back to cubicle dwelling stockbroker. Biker is not synonymous with badass. Know too many of them, both real and "reel". Most mobsters of Greene's caliber are mobsters on Monday morning too.

These days, the mob and the bikers are basically a synergistic set off organizations, trading off of what each does better. It’s like Microsoft and Intel.

But say in the 1960s or 1970s, the mob guys were tough on their own. Most of them were in street gangs as teens and the basic business of being a gangster was often violent and involved physical intimidation of people.

Bikers were also tough and violent, but their problem was being easily identifiable and hanging out as a group. This makes them an easy target. They’re also “outlaws” without many allies. The mob, though, is basically ingrained in the community and is able to call on more allies, sympathetic friends and family, corrupt government officials and police, and so on.

I don’t think the mob fights with bikers at random, either. I think was often on an organized basis — the mob was more a less an expert at armed robbery, so if they had a serious beef with the bikers they were showing up in numbers and with guns.

Honestly, I don’t think their paths crossed much until the late 1970s and 1980s when the mob got weakened and the bikers got better at being their own organized crime network. By then the bikers and mob were mostly allies and doing business, both because they had things the other wanted and to serve as a bulwark against emergent gangs like the Jamaicans, the Russians, the various black street gangs who were also organizing, and Mexicans.

Nowadays the bikers are probably a bigger organized crime threat than the mob. In fact, there’s a big biker contingent in the prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood, and this gang is extremely dangerous and well organized. When John Gotti was in prison he tried to buy protection from the AB.