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Face it. When it comes to exposing motorcycles to the masses, and making a two-wheeled life “look cool” the motorcycle industry’s biggest assets are shows like American Chopper and Sons of Anarchy.

With this thought in mind, we suppose then that it is good news that FX plans to create a spin-off of Sons of Anarchy, bringing the male melodrama back to the small screen, with a new show called Mayans MC.

Before today, if you had looked up the word “biker” in the Oxford English Dictionary, you would have found the following definition: “a motorcyclist, especially one who is a member of a gang: a long-haired biker in dirty denims.” With statical studies showing that only 9% of Britain’s bikers fit the long long-hair and “dirty denims” stereotype, 74% of all British motorcyclists felt the definition was inaccurate.

Bowing to pressure from Great Britain’s motorcycling community though, Oxford University Press (the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary) has redefined “biker” to fit with slightly more modern perceptions. Accordingly, the Oxford English Dictionary now defines a biker as, “a motorcyclist, especially one who is a member of a gang or group: a biker was involved in a collision with a car.”