Daytona Black Bike Week 2019

The necessity for separation was created by segregation during Daytona Bike Weeks 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 couldnt 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 youll never wear. Asberrys problem wasnt the color of the 40weight dripping from his crankcases