"It's like you're in your own little world and flying through the sky - and you can feel it."
"So do motorcycles mean freedom? I think they're symbolic in some aspect of that. But they're also a responsibility, and there's a distinct lack of freedom [in being] responsible. You have to be extremely responsible on a vehicle like a motorbike - especially if you want to live."
In Danny Lyon's photographs and interviews with the members of motorcycle gangs of the 1960s, Nichols found "a full portrait of this subculture. And so, as a filmmaker, as a storyteller, he gave me everything I needed to show the breadth of the human beings involved in this very particular outsider group."
The Bikeriders begins in the 1960s, as a group of motorcycle enthusiasts, led by Johnny (Hardy), form the Vandals MC - a group which begins initially as a way for men to find a sense of community, before darker forces transform the gang into a more violent operation.
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