Photograph Bill Ray and writer Joe Bride, on assignment for LIFE Magazine, spent weeks in 1965 along with the real Hells Angels when bikers in leather jackets on their motorcycles were not yet an icon of cinema, when Mad Max had not made them horrible violent men. They met with rowdy young men and women to share some of their road life and to let people know them.
Today, LIFE Magazine presents an exclusive with these photos.
