Approximately sixty gang members armed with iron bars, motorcycle chains, maces and a shotgun participated. On 17 October 1970, members of the Road Rats, the Nightingales, the Windsors and the Jokers engaged in a gang fight against the Essex Nomads and the Chelsea Nomads on Chelsea Bridge. The Road Rats became the leaders of an alliance against the Essex Nomads. In 1970, the Road Rats turned down an offer to begin "prospecting" for one such "bootleg" Hells Angels club, the Essex Nomads, as they were unwilling to cede their North London territory.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a number of homegrown British outlaw biker clubs, in reaction to the international publicity of the Hells Angels in the United States, began adopting the Hells Angels' name and insignia without authorisation from the American club. The Road Rats initially emerged as a London street gang in the early 1960s before evolving into a motorcycle club. The club became notable for its clashes with the English Hells Angels chapter, including a shooting on Chelsea Bridge, the Satans Slaves, in which two Road Rats were killed, and for murdering one of the founders of the Cycle Tramps motorcycle gang.
Arguably one of the "oldest and toughest motorcycle clubs in the country", the Road Rats are notorious for having fallen out with almost every motorcycle club in the United Kingdom and a few outside of the UK. The Road Rats Motorcycle Club ( RRMC) is an English outlaw motorcycle club established in London in the 1960s.
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