Daytona Black Bike Week 2024! Daytona Beach Bike Week Go Pro Walk Through

"The necessity for separation was created by segregation during Daytona Bike Week’s dark past. Black Bike Week — on Second Avenue (since renamed Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune Blvd) — has grown to be the laidback alternative to the crazy world of Coleslaw Wrestling, high prices, machismo at the siliconeenhanced version of the event. Visitors to the annual Daytona Beach Bike Week celebration have taken home many, many traffic citations as souvenirs. But the story of biker legend Tommy Asberry during the Daytona Bike Week of 1971 has to be among the most memorable of them all. “I was ticketed for parking my HarleyDavidson Electra Glide in among all the Hondas and Triumphs on Main Street,” said Asberry. “The police told me I couldn’t be parking a bike there, leaking oil like that, so I had to move along.” Of course, oilseeping Harleys are as much a part of the Daytona scene as overpriced beer and cheap Tshirts you’ll never wear. Asberry’s problem wasn’t the color of the 40weight dripping from his crankcases — it was the color of his skin. And like tens of thousands of other black motorcyclists who showed up for — but were eventually turned away from — Bike Week during the rally’s early years, Asberry eventually found a more hospitable place to park his motorcycle. The social conditions that contributed to bogus traffic tickets and parking citations for black riders may have changed or transformed a bit during the last five decades, but Daytona’s Second Avenue (Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune Blvd), a threeblock collection of Baptist churches, hair salons, and bars, continues to thrive. Ever since the Second Avenue scene emerged out of bitterness and necessity in 1949 it continues to grow in popularity.


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