Posted on 05/09/2009 3:24:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Motorcyle Enthusiasts Turned Away From Popular Myrtle Beach Rally Spot: As the women at the SBB biker bar here greet the six o'clock hour by jiggling to a blaring version of Kid Rock's take on "Sweet Home Alabama," Bob Johnston leans back, flips his flip-flops off, and ponders the state of America's biker culture. The party inside the saloon notwithstanding, the news ain't good, he says. Just up the road, Myrtle Beach, S.C. -- the site for 68 years of the world's largest Harley-Davidson rally, drawing nearly half a million riders annually -- has effectively tried to shut down the event this year. Inside the city limits, a local helmet law and a ban on noisy tailpipes is likely to keep most riders at bay.
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which seems to generate a plethora newpaper articles about the attendees openly defecating and urinating in the streets.
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You left out fornicating in the streets and trying to be intimidating. I haven’t witnessed it but some of the stories are horrific.
Go down the road to my hometown of Georgetown instead. Just 30 minutes away and the beaches are nicer.
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Ain’t no place to stay for that many people in Georgetown, what are they gonna do, pitch tents?
My grandfather owned Belle Isle marina and my dad did servicing for the yachts around the area.
The one thing that I remember about Belle Isle Marina is that the Coast Guard would come out of their station there to search my vessel whenever we came in after dark, which was all of the time. I never did have too much use for them after they wouldn’t go to the rescue of the fellows on the Eagle II when they went over the South Jetties during a storm. Those were the fellows that froze solid floating around in a fish box after the wreck.
“The majority of bikers are veterans.”
OK.. and... your point is?
True
Yes, I remember my dad telling me that they sucked, contributing to his (and my grandfather’s, a Navy man) low opinion of the branch.
And trhe same damn thing happens in Biloxi and Galveston.
I don’t know about all of them, but the ones that I’ve met couldn’t quite tow the mark. Those at Belle Isle had a reputation of using the stuff they confiscated.
Freaknik in Atlanta. Horrific traffic, as if it wasn’t already bad enough, and vandalism, shootings, rapes, it used to be a mess.
It wasn’t bikers, at first it was just black college students showing off their cars and cruising the city. Then it was taken over by thugs and hip-hop artists, went down hill from there.
Did you ever meet the marina owner?
Wow.
Are you *that* obtuse?
Referring to bikers who are mostly veterans as “itinerant low life” is disrespectful to those who risked their lives for this country, in the extreme.
Not at Belle Isle, although I may have met him elsewhere in Georgetown. I knew alot of folks there.
As far as I know, only you have made this a veteran issue. This is, in fact, a misbehavior issue. Your claim that most bikers are veterans is problematic, at best. But that is irrelevant, unless, of course, you believe that just by being a veteran excuses a person from ordinary civilized behavior and demands that a community accept lowered standards just because some veterans are in town. Lots of veterans live in my neighborhood and they are all, without exception, excellent citizens and neighbors. To the best of my knowledge, they have never found it necessary to smash beer bottles in the streets, shout insults at passers-by, raise noisy rackets into the wee hours or fornicate in parking lots. Your suggestion that veterans should be defined by misbehaving biker standards is both absurd and insulting. In case you didn’t get it the first or second time, this is not a veteran issue; it is a misbehavior issue.
There is NO reason for a motorcycle to be uncomfortably noisy for the general public..
I'm sure motorcycles and the public could get to appreciate one another if they were quieted down to a reasonable level.Like below 90 decibels.
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