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Club History

At the beginning we were just a bunch of friends who knew each other since school. Back then bikes were quite clumsy and barely made it from Point A to Point B. But those were different times.

Time was passing by quickly, we rode our bikes together every day and we still do, even though we are a little older, wilder and we got better bikes now.

It was back in 1992 when someone said You know what? We should FORM A CLUB!. We embraced the idea and we got down to thinking (something we find difficult to this day) about how this could be done. We were like hey, let's check out how other people did it. We talked to the guys from Plovdiv's VAGABONDS Club and by 1993 we had prepared the necessary paperwork and we had more and more people who wanted to join us.

We settled the club in the same bar we went to every day but now it had a sign MOTO CLUB TORNADO above the front door. In 1995 the bar's lease contract for the premise expired and it shut down. We lived day to day and we were looking for another place. Two years later we found it. A freind offered us his garage which was turned into a small bar and we placed the sign at its fron door. We spend 1 year there. The neighbors couldn't stand us any longer and it had become too small for the growing group. Two years passed by in which a lot of the guys sold their bikes but everyone kept hoping something would happen. We went to bikers meetings in the summer and envied the guys from the other cities which had their clubs and everything was going well.

In 1997 a rich local businessman said we could use a place he needed no longer. We weren't very enthusiastic – we were told the premise was soon to be taken down, as it was part of a stupid town project to build and open market. But we needed a place to go so we said yes. We put a bike on the roof – we could listen to its engine running instead of music. Then we decided that no one would make us leave. With the help of fiends and bikers from other clubs we staged a large protest and a bike parade across the town. We got the attention of the media and the public and yet we lost the club.

We told each other that every cloud had a silver lining and life went on the same old way. And now, finally, we have the club we've always dreamt of, the sign MC TORNADO is hanging above its front door and we are happy that a lot of young bikers are joining us within the Bulgarian Association of Motorcycle Mlubs.