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In the mid-2010s, biker gangs or bikies were often in the news. Bikies were thought to be used as an option to settle disagreements. Hence the meme of bikies as an option to resolve a matter is often referenced.

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  • Biker gangs or bikies have long been a part of Australian news coverage. According to Google Search trends, bikies were at peak popularity in October 2013.

First use of “bikies” was on January 1, 2014 by strangeloops66 in reply to a comment from kronicmacstigator:

The joys of having to go to court…
Can't book :( Would of loved to have gone. Ah well, for $200 I can get free meals/bed on the tilt train to Cairns anyway.'

kronicmacstigator

Juror, lawyer or bikie?

# strangeloops66

By September of 2014, use of the term bikies was in the OzBargain slang:

The consensus of comments isn't really consistent with high purely positive votes. Maybe there needs to be another option.

tomwood

The other option is usually bikies.

# Baysew

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As of 12/1/24, “bikies” appear in 2,140 results with Google Search

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