


With chapters spanning the country, we are a growing family of dedicated bikers with our own special brand of biking. Although our roots are from the old school, we believe our current policies strike a healthy balance between those strict old protocols and the modern biking scene in our country without compromising on the basics.
Some things are cast in stone and will always be part of biking – like that little word respect. In order to get respect you earn it by showing/giving respect where it’s due and doing things the right way. Of course, this is not just a biking protocol, but one that applies to all humanity.
However, in the serious biking community this protocol is implicitly applied – and this has been so since the earliest days of motorcycle clubs. We as a club stand by it and apply it to the bone.
We do not have a National President, but we do have a National Committee. Each of our chapters is run by it’s own democratically elected President and other administrators. We are united by a set of common national rules called a constitution.
The President and Vice President of each chapter form the basis of the National Committee, which attends to matters affecting us all. This committee has two fixed meetings per year, but there could be more if a situation warrants it.
Traditionally, once per year we have a closed national event called the Easter Bash which, as the name implies, is over the Easter weekend. All chapters and members are expected to attend. Chapters take turns hosting the Easter Bash. The hosting chapter determines the venue and makes all appropriate arrangements.
The event usually spans the whole Easter weekend. This gives members the freedom to get there and back without having to apply for leave from their employers. When the club gets together like this it makes one extremely proud to belong to this family.
Rather than making excuses not to be there, the members look for excuses not to miss it. It’s always a party of note. From the moment you swing a leg over your bike to leave home, to the moment you park it back again — it’s Syndicate prime time.
SFFS (meaning Syndicate Forever, Forever Syndicate).




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Chapter Activities and Traditions
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During the rest of the year the chapters are free to arrange their own activities. It often happens that the chapters visit each other.
This could simply be for a ride and a party, or to support the another chapter’s fund raising event. Apart from the customary back patch and rockers, each chapter has a unique chapter patch which is worn on the breast of a cut.
We have the tradition that when a member officially visits another chapter (an inter chapter visit is a good example), then the President of the hosting chapter presents his chapter’s patch to the visiting members who do not already own it. In this way we can immediately distinguish the newer members from the older members because the older members have more chapter patches on their cuts.
Because of this, not many of our members have place for metal badges.
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We still follow the hangaround and prospect protocols to the letter. Quality above quantity is very important. When you accept an invitation to become a prospect in our club you are presented with half colours and are fondly called an “appie”.
You get to do things like making the fire, braaing the meat, pitching the tents, fetching drinks and so on. You are never victimized or treated with disrespect in any way.
By happily doing the things they ask of you, you are showing the patched members you really want to be part of them.
The “appie” time continues until you receive a 100% positive vote from all the local chapter patched members, but it will never be less than 12 months. Rather, expect it to be longer.
Nobody walks into The Syndicate MC without doing time.
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The most difficult and fun patch to obtain in The Syndicates MC, would be the HIGHWAYMEN patch.
You must visit every chapter on your motorcycle to be able to be awarded this patch.
Mark Parry and Mercia Parry are the first two members to be awarded this special patch in 2025
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Mark Parry and Mercia Parry from the Overberg Chapter receiving their HIGHWAYMEN Patches from Carlos Gomes (JHB Chapter)
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