Mass bikers in this night video at Myrtle Beach
Spokes & Bones Saloon
One of the main drags at Myrtle Beach Bike Week and this is massively thick with motorcycles...
Everyone wants to be here...
And they'll be keeping a lookout on the beach
Myrtle Beach Bike Week Rules
There's a whole list of them at WPDE
Two of the more amusing
- If you dig a hole on the beach, you must fill it before leaving the beach
- Quiet hours are 11 p.m. through 7 a.m. Violation? Up to a $1000 fine.
The City’s Noise Ordinance States: “It is unlawful for any person to make, continue or cause to be continued any excessive, unnecessary or unusually loud noise or any noise which either annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others, within the limits of the city.”
Strange Stuff
Bar Maid and Very Large Dogs
Another video from Myrtle Beach Bike Week
Church responds during Myrtle Beach Bike Week
Church Raising Money
South Assembly of God Church located in Murrells Inlet, S.C., donating part of the money raised to help refugees fleeing Ukraine war.
$7000 raised part way through Bike Week
Things starting to happen at the rally
Real Life on the beach street
Things just beginning in the video of one of the iconic motorcycle rallies in North America.
Get ready for The Week...
numero uno
Easy Rider obviously and always #1
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Easy Rider
The beginning of wild and crazy days...and riding the Badlands west of Sturgis...
These rankings in the opinion of movieweb.com and open to some rather extended scrutiny...
2
The Wild One
Marlon Brando early on...
Others down the list could be arranged differently, or not, depending on your viewpoint.
3
Mad Max - Australian film, with Mel Gibson
4
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Motorcycle Diaries
The early life of Che Guevara roaming America and revolution on a bike, comrade...
5
On Any Sunday * The Wild Angels, another one with Peter Fonda
6
The Wild Angels
The Wild Angels
Said to have cemented Fonda's legacy in biker culture...
7
Hell's Angels on Wheels
Hell's Angels on Wheels
Another Jack Nicholson staple here...
8
The Loveless
9
Electra Glide in Blue
Electra Glide in Blue
The law on motorcycles
"Motorcycle Diaries" by Lester Public Library is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. "Easy Rider" by twm1340 is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0. "Marlon Brando" by twm1340 is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0. "hells angels on wheels monterey vhs front" by Jesper Wiking is marked with CC BY-ND 2.0.
Another Thunder Beach Video
At Panama Beach, FL where there are real palm trees
What it looks like
Mostly bikes in this one
With some drone footage
Business and crowds reportedly up this year
But that would be expected, with the past two years under the covid haze.
Temperatures Warm up in Panama Beach
As bikers head home, or off to some remote stretch of sand condusive to floundering about like a beached whale, which of course is personally, more my style of relaxation. Here's to the whales !!!
A mixture of bikers, protests, memorials, arrests and lots of now one knows what this is.
Protest is colorful, and perhaps in search of a cause...
- Heavy police presence in Ottawa
- Hundreds gathered for the protest, and several arrested
- Some were protesting covid restriction
- Counter protesters gathered across the street
- About 150 motorcycles on the edge of the protest
memorial service near the National War Memorial
Lots of photos of it all in the New York Post story
"Canada Flag" by Alirod Ameri is marked with CC BY 2.0.
Sample of more top bands