The Rock Machine is back on Canada's motorcycle club scene.
The Rock Machine is back on Canada's motorcycle club scene. The club, which gained huge notoriety in the '90s thanks to a bloody war with the Hells Angels, has resurfaced hoping to distance itself from its troubled past and its ties to the Bandidos in the United States. "We're going back to our roots," a member of the re-formed Rock Machine said yesterday, speaking for the club. "It's the most logical choice." The club apparently already has about 72 members. Some of the bikers were with the club when it patched over to the Bandidos in 2000, some absorbed from another Ontario-based club, and many who are "completely new to the bike scene." The source said the Rock Machine hopes to spread across the country in time. But for now it will open two chapters in the east -- Toronto and Kingston -- and two chapters in the west, in Edmonton and Winnipeg. Ron Burling, 37, who is serving eight years in a maximum security prison, will head the chapters...