It was a beautiful day for a pig roast with the Pagans. A perfect spring afternoon to wile away the hours with the Warlocks at The Handle Bar’s block party/pig roast this past Saturday in Frankford.

It was billed as a get-together featuring a live band and "the hottest barmaids, the coolest beer and the best food" inside the Frankford Avenue bar and outside on an empty lot across the street set with picnic tables and plastic chairs, a giant barbecue and a small platform for the band.

The bartender answering the phone that afternoon said that all "one-percenters" were welcome. "One-percenters is how outlaw bikers refer to themselves. A former high-ranking Pagan, now a police informant, told City Paper that "99 percent of the people live by the rules, the other 1 percent are outlaws. Fuck everybody else, was our code. Pagan, Warlock, Hells Angel, it's all the same -- we're all fuckin' outlaws."

At The Handle Bar block party there were plenty of motorcycle riders not wearing any gang colors. The first outlaw bikers to arrive were the Warlocks. Just after 1 p.m., they roared up Delaware Avenue on their Harleys and thundered down Frankford Avenue before parking underneath the I-95 overpass next to the bar.

The Warlocks were well represented by chapters from Philly, Bucks and Atlantic counties. Within an hour there were more than 100 bikers at the party, a few Pagans, many Warlocks and several groups not wearing any colors.

"Both the Warlocks and the Pagans have smaller biker clubs that are affiliated with them but aren't considered members," an associate of the outlaw bikers said. "Some of the smaller clubs help the bikers make money or serve as potential recruits for the Pagans and the Warlocks. The Warlocks and Pagans have a lot of ways to make money. Meth is their biggest moneymaker. They're all into it up to their armpits. Some are into prostitution or bookmaking or running clubs. Remember just a couple years ago the Pagans were doing some enforcing for the mob, collecting debts and so forth. And now the Pagans are sometimes using the Warlocks for strong-arm stuff because they don't want to get their hands dirty."

Underworld insiders explained that the Pagans and Warlocks, former rivals, are working more closely together to make money and to watch each other's backs now that the Hells Angels are making a move on their territory. That's why the Pagans showed up to party with the Warlocks last Saturday afternoon.

There was a smattering of women at the block party. The "biker chicks" were mostly in their late 30s and 40s and casually dressed save for two women. The first arrived on the back of a Harley driven by a Warlock. She was in her 20s with long black hair, dressed head to toe in blue denim, but with a Louis Vuitton pocketbook worth several thousand dollars. The second was in her late 30s, her hair expensively coifed and her blue denim professionally tailored to fit her slim form. Both women represent the new reality of outlaw bikers who are evolving into more sophisticated and more successful criminal entrepreneurs.

"A lot of people say, look at those bikers. They look like scumbags. They live like pigs. They don't have any money. But check out their Harleys. Those are $25,000 bikes," the insider said. "I grew up with Pagans and Warlocks. As they've gotten older they've gotten smarter. Some of them drive BMWs and wear suits and carry briefcases now. You see them in meetings with legitimate people and except for the scars on their faces they look legit. Of course they're not. They're just looking for legit companies to wash the money from their meth sales and hooker rings and loan sharking."

And it's getting harder for police to spy on the local outlaw gangs and more difficult to recruit informants.

"The Pagans and the Warlocks have gotten smarter about letting people join. It used to be you were a prospect, hung around and did a few crimes and you were in. Now they let the government do their washing for them," a biker source said. "You've got to do some jail time now before they consider letting you in. If prison don't break you and you don't inform on anybody, then when you get out you're asked to become a Pagan or a Warlock. But if you rat out a biker in jail, there are hardcore members in prison who will kill you in a heartbeat."

The Pagans are getting more nervous about losing members to the Hells Angels and are strengthening their ties with the Warlocks. A Warlock associate told Underworld that "the Hells Angels are very good at infiltrating other gangs.

"A lot of Hells Angels are former military guys and they know how to strategize. They secretly recruit members in smaller gangs and slowly take them over. That's the Pagans' biggest fear, that the Hells Angels begin to infiltrate the Warlocks and slowly turn them against the Pagans."