Myrtle Screws Up Royally: Bikers Have Options..
..And.. Brains.
East coast bikers come to the ride-free state of South Carolina to escape the hassle of having to don a lid ten times a day. Now that Myrtle Beach has decided to require that helmets be worn in this corner of SC, bikers have decided to party elsewhere.
Business people from throughout MB and Horrie county, are screaming for the replacement of city council and the mayor, and why not? One hotel, with over two hundred rooms to offer, at a discount, was able to fill only 12. Ouch. Scooter rental dudes had potential customers tell them thanks, but no thanks, when informed they'd have to wear a helmet at 25 mph, yet law enforcement was stringent as ever. One crusty old owner of a 1965 Harley, from way back when headlights didn't light up with the turn of an ignition switch, was fined $250 because he forgot to turn it on.
A lot of Myrtle's biker biz moved south to Murrel's Inlet, home of the Suck, Bang, Blow, where crowds were a little thicker, but on the grand strand, bikers in the usual numbers were awol. Of course, all of this didn't stop the cops from setting up those "safety" road blocks, for bikers only. Gee, just for us? Isn't it nice to be "safe"? Would have been even nicer if they were able to apprehend the stewed woman who allegedly crossed the center line & wiped out a biker. Was she wearing a helmet? It'd be nice if they'd go after the real weasels from time to time, instead of looking for bike mufflers, turn signals & skid lids, but then again, we are the low hanging fruit,
conspicuous, easy to ticket. And...after all, we're only bikers..
All of this has the business community screaming for the heads of city council members, and the mayor, who was supposed to be biker-friendly, replacing the former biker-unfriendly bunch that was kicked out of office last time around. There's a lesson for biker destinations to be learned here:
Bikers have options. And.. Brains.
East coast bikers come to the ride-free state of South Carolina to escape the hassle of having to don a lid ten times a day. Now that Myrtle Beach has decided to require that helmets be worn in this corner of SC, bikers have decided to party elsewhere.
Business people from throughout MB and Horrie county, are screaming for the replacement of city council and the mayor, and why not? One hotel, with over two hundred rooms to offer, at a discount, was able to fill only 12. Ouch. Scooter rental dudes had potential customers tell them thanks, but no thanks, when informed they'd have to wear a helmet at 25 mph, yet law enforcement was stringent as ever. One crusty old owner of a 1965 Harley, from way back when headlights didn't light up with the turn of an ignition switch, was fined $250 because he forgot to turn it on.
A lot of Myrtle's biker biz moved south to Murrel's Inlet, home of the Suck, Bang, Blow, where crowds were a little thicker, but on the grand strand, bikers in the usual numbers were awol. Of course, all of this didn't stop the cops from setting up those "safety" road blocks, for bikers only. Gee, just for us? Isn't it nice to be "safe"? Would have been even nicer if they were able to apprehend the stewed woman who allegedly crossed the center line & wiped out a biker. Was she wearing a helmet? It'd be nice if they'd go after the real weasels from time to time, instead of looking for bike mufflers, turn signals & skid lids, but then again, we are the low hanging fruit,
conspicuous, easy to ticket. And...after all, we're only bikers..
All of this has the business community screaming for the heads of city council members, and the mayor, who was supposed to be biker-friendly, replacing the former biker-unfriendly bunch that was kicked out of office last time around. There's a lesson for biker destinations to be learned here:
Bikers have options. And.. Brains.
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