Bernie Guindon

Bernard Dieudonné Guindon (born 19 November 1942), better known as "Bernie the Frog", is a Canadian former outlaw biker, gangster and boxer, best known as the founder and national president of Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club from 1965 to 2000.

Blais was from Montreal, but her mother, dissatisfied with the education offered to girls in Quebec's collèges classiques (which only trained girls to be housewives and mothers) had moved to Oshawa in 1958 to give her a "modern" education in English.

Upon first seeing Guindon, Blais recalled saying to her mother "qui est ce mec mignon qui pompe le gaz?" ("who is that cute guy pumping the gas?") and insisted that her mother pull over to that gas station so she could talk to him.

In 1959, at the age of 17, Guindon joined the Golden Hawk Riders outlaw biker club.

Guindon's biographer, Peter Edwards, described him as riding his motorcycle down the streets of Oshawa like "a conquering hero".

Guindon was to have on-off relationship with her that lasted decades, marrying her twice, first in 1961 and then again in 2009.

As a youth full of machismo and a rebellious streak, Guindon was fascinated with the outlaw biker lifestyle and purchased a motorcycle which he named the "Wild Thing".

In November 1961, Guindon married for the first time after his girlfriend Blais became pregnant with the first of his many children, but he continued his womanizing.

Despite being French-Canadian, Guindon did not object to his nickname "Bernie the Frog".

Starting in 1961, Guindon came to be involved in a feud with Harold "Johnny Sombrero" Barnes, the self-proclaimed "Supreme Commander" of the Toronto-based Black Diamond Riders.

Guindon refused to address Barnes by his title of Supreme Commander, causing much offense to the latter.

In 1962, the Satan's Choice club led by Don Norris were forced to disband following attacks from the rival Black Diamond Riders club.

The Black Diamond Riders followed this up by attacking the Golden Hawk Riders during a field day in the summer of 1962, beating up the Golden Hawks.

Under the outlaw biker code, field days under which bikers show off their motorcycles are supposed to be immune from violence.

On the field day at Pebbestone Park, Guindon noticed that the Black Diamond Riders were keeping to themselves and were arming themselves with sticks, leading him to predict violence was coming.

During the "Battle of Pebblestone", as the fight was called, Guindon came to face to face with Barnes and exchanged blows.

The "Battle of Pebbestone" damaged the prestige of the Golden Hawk Riders, who came to be called the "Chicken Hawks", and Guindon ended up leaving the club.

Although bike helmets were not mandatory in Ontario until 1969, Guindon always wore one as his "punch-enhancer".

He was later a member of the Hells Angels until his retirement in 2006.

Guindon was born in Hull, Quebec (modern Gatineau) to French-Canadian parents.

His mother, Lucy, was an illiterate woman from rural Quebec who dropped out of school in Grade 1 while his father, Lucien, was a petty criminal from Buckingham who worked as a bootlegger.

The Guindon family were itinerant in his early years, living at various locations in Quebec and northern Ontario.

In Ontario at the time, bars and liquor stores closed very early, and Lucienne Guindon, who ended settling up in Oshawa, sold alcohol out of his house to those who wanted to drink past the closing time, charging double the price in the liquor stores.

In his native Quebec, the bars and liquor stores stayed open late, causing Lucienne Guindon to relocate to Ontario, where bootlegging was more profitable.

Guindon pere also served as a fence for corrupt Oshawa policemen who wanted to sell items that they had stolen while performing their duties.

Guindon fils grew up in Oshawa surrounded by criminality and violence, recalling his father as a thuggish man who was very good with fists and whose favorite form of entertainment was watching his sons punch each other out.

To amuse his father, Guindon constantly fought his older brother Jacques "Jack" Guindon, and usually got the better of him, causing a lifelong sibling rivalry.

Guindon's father often beat his mother.

Guindon's mother was the main emotional support as he grew up and tried hard to pass on her Catholic faith to her son.

Guindon later defined his attitude towards Catholicism: "There's somebody up there, but I don't know who the fuck He is...I'm not at all religious. I used to hate being on my knees all the time, saying prayers and losing a couple of hours every Sunday".

As a Catholic and French-Canadian in Ontario, a province that at the time was largely English-Canadian and Protestant, Guindon was constantly involved in brawls while growing up, remembering how "I used to go across the street and fight all the Protestants".

At the Holy Cross Elementary School, Guindon was a poor student who failed at everything.

Guindon's first language is French, but he became fluent in English due to growing up in Oshawa.

Guindon was frequently beaten by a nun he called "Dirty Gertie".

As a young man, Guindon excelled at boxing and ultimately came to be trained by the Canadian heavyweight champion George Chuvalo.

When Guindon was 15, he came to the defense of his mother who was being beaten by his father, and proceeded to beat up his father in turn.

Lucienne Guindon abandoned his family shortly afterwards.

Lucy Guindon found a boyfriend who owned a motorcycle and who allowed his stepson to ride it.

Guindon later recalled about his first time riding a motorcycle that "it was unbelievable", marking the beginning of a lifelong love of motorcycles.

As a teenager, Guindon met another French-Canadian teenager living in Oshawa, Suzanne "Nicky" Blais, while working at a gas station, whom he bonded with as he spoke to her in French.