WHEN A SWAT team rolled down Princess Avenue in Camden last month to close the local Wheels of Soul Motorcycle Club's infamous clubhouse, the bikers weren't loading guns, sharpening switchblades or gripping brass knuckles.

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"We were watching the History Channel," said "Hot Rod," 44, president of the Camden chapter. "It was about Nostradamus, so I guess we should have seen it coming." The Jan. 26 raid on the "Doghouse," the nickname the members gave their foreboding but beloved fortress of nearly 40 years in the city's Parkside section, didn't end in a barrage of bullets. Instead, the city's code-enforcement office brought legal firepower, checking off a laundry list of health, safety and fire-code violations and nailing fresh plywood across the front door. Police sources also said that the Wheels of Soul, notorious for their shoot-out with a rival gang at a high-school football game in 1979, ran a speakeasy from the property and that police found a small amount of crack cocaine during the raid. "Thanks to the joint efforts between city and county law- and code-enforcement agencies, the Wheels of Soul gang will not be able to run illegal operations from the Princess Avenue property," Camden Police Chief Scott Thomson said in a news release. "This gang has plagued the Parkside community of Camden for too long. Hopefully, we have shut their operations for good." "Hot Rod," a Camden resident who declined to give his real name, said that as long as the beef between the city and the Wheels is about code violations, the club should be able fix the problems and reopen. "This is the first time they came to us with all these violations and permits. They said we need a permit for our stove," he said, standing outside the clubhouse last week wearing a leather vest. "We're going to do what the city asks of us." The city said in its news release that "the Wheels of Soul gang has a history of illegal activities" and that "multiple shootings" - both fatal and nonfatal - have occurred on the 800 block of Princess Avenue, a stretch that consists entirely of industrial buildings. Two of the shootings happened in recent months near the clubhouse, police sources said. The Wheels of Soul take great offense to the labels "outlaw" or "gang," but readily admit they will fight anyone with their fists if the situation arises. They also claim to frisk anyone who comes to their clubhouse to shoot pool or drink beer; this is mostly, they say, because they've all been shot before.

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