Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms

I see Earl from Australia talking about the bikes and the film.As for the film,I have been a biker my whole life and first wore colours in 1971 and still do.I am also a film maker.The way they act on the film is just about dead on and as for the bikes.They are all Harley Shovel heads which were made from 1966 to 1984.None of the bikes are new and are all authentic to the period.In 84 they began building Evos and the switched to Twin Cam engines in 1998.They were Twin Cams in the harleys in 2011 so no you are wrong about the bikes.Those bikes are the bikes we road back in the 60s 70s and 80s.As for the Sportsters in the film,they were all period Iron Heads.Before you run things down maybe it would be wise to get your facts strait first.This was not bad film and it took me back to those days.It was very realistic in it's portral of bikers in the 70s and 80s.And as for Campbell,it isn't was but is as the Enforcer is still alive.

The show was really good but could have been a bit Meaner and maybe a bit more realistic but I must say I am not happy it was only 6 episodes long. I hope they make another series as this was good viewing. Maybe it could have gone into more depth on how the club got money and what the real war was over.

The show was over all a good show The actors did well playing the characters. The action was a bit slow but was tense when needed. I wanted to watch every week and looked forward to it.

I really wish their were more episodes.

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Within seconds of the start there was this attempt at a Scottish accent. It travelled from Berlin to Springfield & got nowhere near Scotland.

More often than not you get English actors trying to do a Scottish accent and their attempts travel all round Scotland, hitting Ireland on the way, with occasional dips back into England & it's painful to listen to for a native. But! This was really bad. I don't think it hit anywhere in Scotland. Nowhere I've heard of.

Remember! Scotland is a nation with different regions & different accents. There is not a generic Scottish accent. There is a posh kid, trying to be English, Scottish accent that has developed in the past 20 years & there is the Morningside posh, trying to be English, accent, but if you want to do an accent from Scotland & you're not Scottish, pick a place or go posh.

I couldn't get past the bad accent.

I found this series excellent, with only a minor quibble or two. In the 90's I rode a Harley Davidson and belonged to a group who worked during the week, but spent their weekends hanging out at a bar run by one of the group, and taking rides together to wherever there was a barbecue or party on a Sunday. The rides had many stops at favorite bars. We lived in Florida and never missed Daytona bike week and Octoberfest. All wore black leather and patches, but no club colors as those in clubs stayed apart. In my opinion, the riders liked to dress up and imagine they were big bad tough guys living the life, but few would have seriously considered joining a violent outlaw club. Never once did I see a party were they got naked or indulged in the antics shown in the series. I saw lots of drinking, but no drugs.

As no mention was made of how these supposed outlaw bikers earned their living, and some of them appeared to have jobs, they seemed more like weekend bikers to me rather than the full time hard core 1% criminal bikers. Australia in the early 80's may have been different for all I know, as the criminal outlaw gangs were alleged to be into the drug trade.

I particularly liked the fact that the actors appeared to be riding the motor cycles - no stuntmen other than the one time a rider wore a helmet and was thrown from his bike. I had thought several of the mullet cuts were wigs, but as none of them flew off while riding (unless it was very good green screen work) I guess Damien Walshe-Howling isn't really bald after all.

The lead actor did an excellent job and handled a very good Scottish accent throughout. Not sure if it would convince a Glaswegian, but at least we could understand what he was saying, something I cannot do with Billy Connelly. Jock struck me as the kind of power drunk ex-military man said to wear his stripes on his pyjamas and drills his children like raw recruits. The military was likely the best time of his life and time stopped there for him. His ambition is to build the largest club in Australia, for no real reason other than ego, and anything getting in the way of his dream triggers his dark side.

I wish there had been more seasons, but of course, it would have to be fiction as the reason story ended when the bad guys faced justice.

Great series and the massacre upon which this was based was a tough violent watch! The characterisation of the bikies was good as far as an Aussie series is concerned, coming from someone who is a sons of anarchy fan.