EX-BIKER THINKS METH FUELLED KILLINGS

The man who was instrumental in bringing the Bandidos to Canada
scoffed at the police notion that the biker massacre was "internal
cleansing."

"That is bullsh--," Ed Winterhalder, the former president and
secretary of the Oklahoma chapter of the Bandidos, said yesterday.

Winterhalder believes the murders of the bikers were fuelled by
somebody on methamphetamine.

"The person who did the killing must have been a meth-head,"
Winterhalder said. "Usually they have been up for three or four days
and sleep deprivation does some strange things to you."

In Tulsa, Okla., where Winterhalder lives, the city has two Bandidos
chapters -- one "hard-working guys" and the other "meth-heads" -- who
are feuding with each other and who "hate each other's guts," he said.

"Each side thinks the other shouldn't be wearing the (Bandidos)
patch," said Winterhalder, who believes this might be the scenario
that occurred in Shedden, leaving eight dead.

Yesterday, Wayne "Weiner" Kellestine, a full member of the Canadian
Bandidos, was charged with first-degree murder, along with four
associates.

Kellestine and most of the murdered bikers had been members of the
Toronto Loners before they donned the Bandidos' "Fat Mexican" patch
in May 2001, Winterhalder said.

"Half that Loners chapter became Hells Angels and we courted the
other half -- and it took us a while to get these guys to change
over," he said. "And in that pile came Weiner, Crash (Gus Kriarakis),
Porkchop (Louis Raposo), Bam Bam (Frank Salerno) and Boxer (John
Muscedere)."

Winterhalder said he was "saddened" by the loss of the men he still
considers biker brothers, even though he himself was banished from
the gang in September 2003, considered "Out in Bad Standings" --
which is also the title of his tell-all book.

"My friendship is there still with Boxer and Porkchop. I housed them
down at my house down here. Very saddened that they went," said
Winterhalder.

"But you gotta realize in the past three years I've buried about 100
of my friends."

Winterhalder hesitated when asked whether the members will be given a
"full Bandido" funeral.

"I don't think there are enough Bandidos up there to pull it off,"
Winterhalder said. "I would doubt it, to be honest with you. It is
gonna be sad.

"I'd be surprised if you could put five guys together (in the Toronto
chapter)."