"By the time the SRT guys arrived," Duran went on, "a half-dozen Spike Wheels had already gotten there and were stripping what they could from January and the car he was driving." The Spike Wheels were troll go-gangers who operated along south Intercity 5. They were hard to control, riding juiced-up hogs and carrying major ordnance. Some of them had ties to the yakuza and Mafia, and on occasion worked as transport for personnel and material.