The Bikers update introduced Motorcycle Clubs, clubhouses, five illicit businesses, Clubhouse Contracts, MC Work and Challenges, new motorcycles and rideable melee weapons to Grand Theft Auto Online. Its core systems remain available across GTA Online's supported platforms.
Release History
Rockstar announced Bikers in September 2016 ahead of its October 4 release for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC 1. The original release added 13 motorcycles, seven weapons, the Slipstream Adversary Mode and the complete Motorcycle Club system 2.
Later updates expanded the Bikers vehicle lineup and changed how businesses operate. Most importantly, The Criminal Enterprises made business activities, including Sell Missions, available in Invite Only, Crew and Friends sessions in July 2022 3.
How to Start a Motorcycle Club
Buy a clubhouse through Maze Bank Foreclosures after completing or skipping the GTA Online tutorial. The clubhouse makes its owner an MC President and unlocks the Open Road laptop, Clubhouse Contracts, MC Work, Club Challenges and Member Challenges.
An MC supports up to eight players: one President and seven members. The President can appoint an Enforcer, Sergeant at Arms, Road Captain and Vice President, with each role receiving abilities that support the club during Freemode activities.
The President chooses the club's outfit style and emblem. Members can select individual outfits within that shared style, while the emblem can use a preset design or the club's custom crew emblem.
The launch update also added more than 275 clothing items and more than 50 tattoos, alongside new biker-themed customization options.
The President can set the club's riding style to Relaxed or Normal. Presidents and Road Captains can also activate Riding Formation, which restores member and motorcycle health while riders remain inside the formation.
Clubhouses
GTA Online offers 12 clubhouses through Maze Bank Foreclosures, with base prices ranging from GTA$200,000 to GTA$495,000. Location does not change the clubhouse features, so the main practical difference is travel time to contracts and owned businesses.
Each clubhouse can be customized with murals, interior styles and a club emblem. Functional additions include a gun locker and Custom Bike Shop. The shop services a player's motorcycles and later gained customer-bike delivery work through The Criminal Enterprises.
- Murals: GTA$86,500 to GTA$150,000
- Style: GTA$138,000 to GTA$400,000
- Club Emblem: GTA$50,000 to GTA$62,000
- Gun Locker: GTA$320,000
- Custom Bike Shop: GTA$530,000
The default clubhouse benefits include a bar and darts board, both of which can be interacted with. The Arm Wrestling minigame will also be accessible in the clubhouse. Clubhouses also contain meeting rooms, much like the board rooms of corporate offices, where the planning of your exploits may take place. The meeting room also has the contracts wall, used by Presidents to launch new and unique Club Contracts.
Motorcycle Club Ranks
The President assigns four specialist roles. Each role can launch a corresponding Member Challenge and provide supplies or vehicles to the club.
The Enforcer can call a hit squad, drop body armor and start Rippin' It Up. The Vice President can drop Bull Shark Testosterone, mark a target on the map and start Hit and Ride. The Road Captain can activate Riding Formation, start Race to Point and call selected support vehicles. The Sergeant at Arms can drop Molotov cocktails and ammunition and start On the Run.
A club can appoint one member to each specialist role, while remaining members stay as Prospects. Coordinating the role abilities is most useful during business sales, Clubhouse Contracts and competitive Freemode work.
Registering as an MC President
The clubhouse is a permanent property, but an active Motorcycle Club exists only for the current session. Register as an MC President through the Interaction Menu after joining a session, then invite other players as members. Players can retire from the President role and later register again without losing the clubhouse or businesses.
A player cannot be an MC President and CEO at the same time, but can switch between the two roles through the Interaction Menu when the session has capacity for another boss.
Clubhouse Contracts
The Bikers launch added 11 Clubhouse Contract types. The President starts them from the contract wall inside the clubhouse, and they focus on cooperative combat, escorts, thefts and deliveries.
- Gunrunning has players track down a protected weapons shipment, steal the cargo, and take it to a drop-off zone where they will be paid for the merch.
- P.O.W. tasks you with springing one of your underground contacts from prison.
- Guns for Hire sees your MC escort a convoy through dangerous turf.
- By the Pound has you act as a narcotics courier, completing a deal for the product and taking it to the buyer.
- Weapon of Choice gives you a specific target and a specific way of making people not live anymore. You know what to do.
- Nine Tenths of the Law has players steal bikes from protected locations and deliver them — in one piece — to the designated drop-off.
- Cracked has the MC storm a known base run by a rival gang, and steal the cash from their safe.
- Jailbreak tasks you with hijacking a prison bus and helping the convicts reach their getaway rides.
- Fragile Goods sees the return of the Lost MC as the enemy. You must track down their trucks and destroy them, along with their cargo.
- Outrider has your members pick up contacts scattered through the map with bikes, and driving them to their destinations while protecting them.
- Torched sends you on the offensive against rival gangs. You must destroy their ammo reserves.
On the PvP side of things, we've got an assortment of 4 Club Jobs, 3 Club Challenges and 4 Member Challenges. The first has different MCs competing against one another. The other two subtypes set the members of your MC against one another, with Club Challenges happening contextually during regular gameplay, and Member Challenges being their own missions.
- Jobs
- Deathmatch has the members of two MCs duke it out to the death.
- Joust is the same as Deathmatch, but on bikes instead of on foot.
- Caged In is what happens when racing is mixed with Deathmatches. You have to reach the finish line first on your bike, but attacking others with melee attacks is fair game.
- Stand Your Ground tasks one team with protecting a given area on the map from rivals, who in turn must conquer it.
- Sell Product has you transport product to various locations from your business. If a member carrying product during the mission is killed, that product cannot be recovered.
- Club Challenges
- Search and Destroy has MC members compete against one another to find and assassinate the target first.
- Wheelie Rider tasks members to rack up the longest wheelie within the time limit.
- Criminal Mischief has members cause damage to the most cars via drive-by melee while the timer ticks.
- Member Challenges
- Rippin' It Up has members cause the most damage within the timeframe while riding their bikes.
- Hit and Ride challenges you to rack up the most melee drive-by kills.
- On the Run slams all members with a 5 star wanted level, and it's last man standing from there on out.
- Race to Point is pretty self explanatory. First one to the destination wins.
Clubhouse Contracts and business activities can be played in Invite Only, Crew and Friends sessions. Some contracts and competitive MC activities still require additional players or a rival organization, so the activity's player count remains the deciding factor.
Biker Businesses
The clubhouse laptop provides access to the Open Road network and five business types: Cocaine Lockup, Methamphetamine Lab, Counterfeit Cash Factory, Weed Farm and Document Forgery Office. Each business must be purchased and set up separately.
Businesses turn supplies into stock while the player is online. Supplies can be stolen through Resupply Missions or purchased, while Staff and Equipment upgrades improve production and the Security upgrade reduces the chance of raids. Our Biker business profit guide compares the five businesses and their current returns; the broader GTA Online money guide compares them with other activities.
Stock is sold through delivery missions, with the number of delivery vehicles generally increasing as more product is sold. Invite Only sessions remove interference from rival players, while public-session sales can earn a high-demand bonus at greater risk.
Buying supplies saves active play time, while stealing supplies avoids the purchase cost. Which is more efficient depends on the business upgrades, sale size and what the player does while production runs; there is no universal rule that stealing is always better.
Bikers Vehicles
The October 2016 launch added 13 motorcycles. Additional motorcycles and other themed vehicles followed during the Bikers release cycle, producing the broader list below.
- Western Nightblade
- Shitzu Defiler
- LCC Avarus
- Western Zombie Bobber
- Western Zombie Chopper
- Shitzu Hakuchou Drag
- Nagasaki Chimera
- Western Rat Bike
- Nagasaki Street Blazer
- Maibatsu Manchez
- Pegassi Faggio Mod
- Pegassi Faggio Sport
- Western Wolfsbane
- BF Raptor
- Western Daemon Custom
- Pegassi Vortex
- LCC Sanctus
- Declasse Tornado Rat Rod
- Nagasaki Shotaro
- Pegassi Esskey
- Bravado Youga Classic
Riding a motorcycle designated as the player's Favorite Bike grants health regeneration and a damage-resistance bonus. Members inside an active Riding Formation also recover player and motorcycle health.
Bikers Weapons
Bikers added seven weapons, including three melee weapons that can be used from a motorcycle.
- Pool Cue
- Pipe Wrench
- Battle Axe
- Compact Grenade Launcher
- Sweeper Shotgun
- Mini SMG
- Pipe Bomb
Slipstream Adversary Mode
Slipstream is a four-to-16-player team motorcycle race introduced with Bikers. Teams must pass through checkpoints together and use the slipstream behind other riders to gain speed.
The first team to bring its riders across the finish line wins. Seven Slipstream routes were included with the original update.
Original Launch Event
The update's October 2016 launch event offered temporary clothing unlocks, discounts and a bike-locked Premium Race. These promotions have expired and are retained here only as part of the update's release history.
The launch-week Premium Race was Trench I, restricted to motorcycles. Rockstar also ran a Bikers-themed Snapmatic competition with five winning photographs selected for display on the Newswire.
Bikers also made the Western Bagger available for purchase, added motorcycle melee attacks, expanded property ownership to a sixth slot and introduced further Creator and race options.
Bikers established the Motorcycle Club business framework that GTA Online still uses. Start with a clubhouse, choose any businesses that fit your budget and group size, and use the dedicated Biker business guide for current production and payout comparisons.