A PAL of a jailed biker gang leader has lifted the lid on the bloody feud that exploded when they set up a crew to rival Scotland’s notorious Blue Angels.
The Mad Dogs Motorcycle Club rider told how he recruited former enemy Dan Laponder in a move that infuriated their adversaries.
Heavily-tattooed gun nut Laponder, 43, was a high-ranking Blue Angels member before switching sides.
We told how he blamed a “snitch” in his old crew after being caged for bombing a rival’s dad’s works van in Lennoxtown, Dunbartonshire, in June.
Last night his ally, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “Blue Angels are insignificant bullies who have got themselves a reputation.
“It’s a false reputation that has grown and grown. It’s a clown’s culture. Speaking to pals, we know about 90 per cent of the villains in Glasgow and we’ve never heard of these guys.”
The biker recalled bristling at how other clubs were “under their thumb”.
He said: “Dan was what you’d call my enemy at this point because he was still in the Blue Angels.
“I was fed up with a situation where other biker clubs had to ask them for permission to wear this or that or whatever, or face getting beaten up.
“I decided to ruffle feathers by setting up my own club. Dan sent some Angels to beat me up in Glasgow and they failed drastically.”
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PIPE bomb maniac Dan Laponder didn’t “approve” of a horror rampage by his fellow biker gang brother, a lawyer said.
Sibling David, 39, was caged in 2020 for 11 years for a meat cleaver attack on a rival in Warrington, Cheshire.
But Dan’s defence KC John Scullion told the High Court in Glasgow: “He has very little contact with his brother and does not approve of his behaviour.”
Tensions boiled over again last November when a 20-strong mob wrecked a motorbike garage.
Our source claimed Laponder then opted to switch sides as a pal was one of two men left with horrorinjuries in the ambush at Totally Spanners in Glasgow’s Hillington.
He said: “Dan looked at who was running about with him and decided he’d had enough.”
We told how the brute went on to blow up a BT van used by Blue Angels member David Rollo’s father.
Weeks later a hooded thug hurled accelerant on a clubhouse in Airdrie in another attack linked to the feud.
Laponder, now holed up at Greenock’s prison, previously posed with a sawn-off shotgun.
He was jailed for nine years at Glasgow’s High Court last month.