ABSTRACT
The code of honor is fundamental to an understanding of the violence in the culture of outlaw bikers. A field study of outlaw bikers in Denmark 1 has evidenced how the culture's own concepts of honor and dignity are linked to the ability to defend personal and collective territories. Honor and the territories are continuously tested, challenged, infringed and defended in ritualized and symbolic ways. On the individual level these tests begin as either verbal or physical games and fights. On the collective level the honor contests start by deriding the predominant symbols of MC-clubs their 'colors'. These honor conflicts can in either case provoke feuds.
