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2009-05: Riding to MB BikeWeek or AB BikeFest Next Month? Make Your Stand on the Strand! (Bikers' Rights)

Despite all the rumors and the City of Myrtle Beach’s best efforts to discourage them, next month hundreds of
thousands of motorcyclists are expected to ride or trailer to South Carolina’s Grand Strand for “Myrtle Beach”
Spring Bike Week (May 8-17) …

Despite all the rumors and the City of Myrtle Beach’s best efforts to discourage them, next month hundreds of
thousands of motorcyclists are expected to ride or trailer to South Carolina’s Grand Strand for “Myrtle Beach”
Spring Bike Week (May 8-17) and the Atlantic Beach Memorial Day Bikefest (May 22-26). Yes, the Carolina
Harley-Davidson Dealers Association claims they are moving their “Spring Rally” to New Bern, NC …
http://tinyurl.com/bnvyt3 …but that little burg is only gearing up to handle 3,000 to 4,000 “safe and law-abiding”
(which in North Carolina includes DOT-lidded) motorcyclists: http://tinyurl.com/dxnjxe
And according to this website…
http://tinyurl.com/dbusro
… “The Carolina Dealers Association, which had a 10 x 30 booth selling t-shirts last year, decided to start an
event in New Bern, NC. This will have no impact on Spring Bike Week in Myrtle Beach. We wish them well in New Bern,
but nothing from Myrtle Beach is moving to New Bern.” That means virtually all of those 300,000 to 500,000 riders
the Associated Press referred to will still be headed for “the Strand”: http://tinyurl.com/ccejxc
If YOU plan to be one of them, be advised that bikers … especially BLACK bikers … are no longer welcome
in Myrtle Beach…