One building is white with a red roof -- Hells Angels colours.
The other building is black with skulls on the wall -- Outlaws colours.
In between are four city blocks, nervous neighbours and watchful police.
The fallout from a Hells Angels party on the weekend continued Monday, with parents whose children attend an elementary school across from the purported clubhouse at 549 Grey St. and an expert weighing in.
Parents outside Aberdeen public school Monday morning debated the bikers' presence in the neighbourhood, with some claiming it's not necessarily a bad thing.
"It definitely makes the neighbourhood safer. Nobody messes with a biker house or any neighbourhood the biker house is in," one man said.
Another man said police shouldn't unfairly target the bikers.
"They haven't technically done anything wrong," he said. "They just threw a party."
Other parents disagreed.
"Who puts a party house outside a school area?" asked one mother. "Why wouldn't you do it in between here and Thamesford where they could have a good party and not concern anybody else?"
Neighbours, meanwhile, are concerned about the bikers' presence in the already troubled area.
"I don't really want them in the neighbourhood. We already have enough crime in the neighbourhood," said one area resident, who didn't want to be identified.
Police suggested the party Saturday that drew 100 people was a show of strength by the Hells Angels and may have been a message to the Outlaws motorcycle club.
The Outlaws club is a longtime rival that seemed to resurface in London in the summer.
The evidence of an Outlaws resurgence was La Tinta Latina, a tattoo and piercing shop that opened in June at 328 Hamilton Rd.
The building is black and has a white skull on the wall, but owner Norman Zeledon denied it was an Outlaws clubhouse.
Although police warn the Outlaws and Hells Angels have a long and bitter history, one organized crime expert said co-operation, not confrontation, may be in the offing.
A merger between the two gxxgs is a possibility, with members of the significantly smaller Outlaws joining the larger Hells Angels, organized crime expert James Durbo said.
"It's not unknown these days for Outlaws to become Hells Angels," he said. "Things do change."
Although police won't confirm the home at 549 Grey St. is a Hells Angels clubhouse, it has all the trappings.
The heavily fortified single-storey house is decorated in the Angels' trademark red and white, and a sign asking visitors to use the side door is written in the biker club's signature font.
The house is surrounded by a 1.5-metre high fence with a large dog behind it.
Access to the house is controlled by a metal gate that swings open to let vehicles into the driveway.
Seeing inside the home is impossible -- wooden shutters prevent passersby from looking in -- but whoever is inside can easily watch anybody who approaches the house.
The house is equipped with three tiny surveillance cameras -- one near the front door, one on the garage and one on the side of the house.
The Hells Angels gxxg has kept a low profile in London since their old clubhouse on Swinyard St. was seized by police in July 2008 and remains under a so-called restraint order.
Det. Sgt. Len Isnor, head of the OPP-led $provincial biker-enforcement unit, said neighbours have good reason to be concerned about the bikers' presence in the area.
"I think anytime you have an outlaw motorcycle gxxg in your neighbourhood or in your city you have to be concerned."
Police wouldn't say whether the owner of the house is a known member of the Hells Angels.
City records show the home's owner bought the house in September 2010.
Video: http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/11/21/19000931.html
The evidence of an Outlaws resurgence was La Tinta Latina, a tattoo and piercing shop that opened in June at 328 Hamilton Rd.
The building is black and has a white skull on the wall, but owner Norman Zeledon denied it was an Outlaws clubhouse.
Although police warn the Outlaws and Hells Angels have a long and bitter history, one organized crime expert said co-operation, not confrontation, may be in the offing.
A merger between the two gxxgs is a possibility, with members of the significantly smaller Outlaws joining the larger Hells Angels, organized crime expert James Durbo said.
"It's not unknown these days for Outlaws to become Hells Angels," he said. "Things do change."
Although police won't confirm the home at 549 Grey St. is a Hells Angels clubhouse, it has all the trappings.
The heavily fortified single-storey house is decorated in the Angels' trademark red and white, and a sign asking visitors to use the side door is written in the biker club's signature font.
The house is surrounded by a 1.5-metre high fence with a large dog behind it.
Access to the house is controlled by a metal gate that swings open to let vehicles into the driveway.
Seeing inside the home is impossible -- wooden shutters prevent passersby from looking in -- but whoever is inside can easily watch anybody who approaches the house.
The house is equipped with three tiny surveillance cameras -- one near the front door, one on the garage and one on the side of the house.
The Hells Angels gxxg has kept a low profile in London since their old clubhouse on Swinyard St. was seized by police in July 2008 and remains under a so-called restraint order.
Det. Sgt. Len Isnor, head of the OPP-led $provincial biker-enforcement unit, said neighbours have good reason to be concerned about the bikers' presence in the area.
"I think anytime you have an outlaw motorcycle gxxg in your neighbourhood or in your city you have to be concerned."
Police wouldn't say whether the owner of the house is a known member of the Hells Angels.
City records show the home's owner bought the house in September 2010.
Video: http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2011/11/21/19000931.html
