Your Bikefest photos
Here's the first batch of your Atlantic Beach Bikefest photos. Send more to bikerblog@thesunnews.com. Send spring Harley images to the same address.
Beverly Ann Roberson shared a pair of cool car shots.
May 30, 2006
May 29, 2006
Sunday scenes on the Strand
Images from around the beach Sunday as Bikefest wraps up. KELLY MARSHALL FULLER/The Sun News
May 28, 2006
Around Myrtle Beach
More photos from around Myrtle Beach. TOM MURRAY/The Sun News
Floridians Andrina Jenkins and Lionel Richardson laugh as she takes a picture of her friend Yolanda Burkett dancing on the back of Keith Gordan's motorcycle. They were traveling in the stop-and-go traffic on Ocean Boulevard near Fifth Avenue South in Myrtle Beach.
Bikefest scenes
Here's five more images from inside Atlantic Beach, including an aerial view of the smaller-than-usual crowd. JANET BLACKMON MORGAN/The Sun News
Marvin Diggs has his own shade with an umbrella hat as temperatures hover around 90 in Atlantic Beach on Saturday. Diggs is down from Fredrick, Md., to be part of the Atlantic Beach Bikefest.
May 27, 2006
Hot day in Atlantic Beach
30 more photos from inside Atlantic Beach. Saturday was a hot day to be out, though vendors and festival-goers said the crowd inside the town was down from previous years. DWAYNE McLEMORE/The Sun News
'Check out that booty!'
The collection of cars and handful of motorcycles milled along Ocean Boulevard at a committed snail's pace Saturday. At the intersection of 21st Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, a stoic-faced lady fanned herself from the 90-degree heat; others sat in silence, filmed the events or ate ice cream while hidden by shade. A few motorcycles rumbled in the distance.
A block down, a bullhorn cut through the collected hum of motors and passerby: "Googely moogely, check out that booty!"
Saint, with his friend T-C serving as a makeshift hype man, kept the commentary running on ladies caught in the shuffling drivers and crowds.
Most laughed at Saint's muscular, broad-shoulders hopping along the block like a drop of oil in a hot pan. T-C's wiry frame followed suit. A few returned their admirations.
Neither the heat nor the slow-paced shuffling deterred Saint from his vocal admirations and catcalls. "It's my first time here, man, all the way from Beaufort!"
- Russ Lane, The Sun News
Ocean Boulevard heats up in MB
30 photos of cruising and head-turning on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, around the road's intersection with Third Avenue South. DWAYNE McLEMORE/The Sun News
Scenes from Atlantic Beach
11 photos from Friday's Bikefest beginning in Atlantic Beach. CHARLES SLATE/The Sun News
A group of ladies pose for photos by Jarvus Jones (second from right) and Shaun "Smoke" Tatum, both from Atlanta, who were selling music and sunglasses at the Atlantic Beach Bikefest.
Strolling the streets of Atlantic Beach, people- and bike-watching along with listening to the variety of music blasting from vendors' speakers, was the way some people began their Atlantic Beach Bikefest weekend.
May 26, 2006
Scenes from Atlantic Beach
Nine photos Friday from the start of Bikefest. SCOTT ERNST/The Sun News
Hawaiian Rumble not only thing rumbling
For some, Memorial Day weekend will mean non-stop partying - except in the mornings or when the daytime is too hot. For others, it will mean a weekend of non-stop work.
Bo Taylor (above), the general manager of the Hawaiian Rumble Golf property in North Myrtle Beach, expects to get little sleep and spend lots of time in a golf cart. He's keeping an eye on parking lots for the miniature golf course and the businesses across the street, shooing away bikes and cars trying to find somewhere to park.
Taylor started at 8 a.m. Friday and will go non-stop until sometime Monday morning - except "to go on home and shower or get something to eat."
Property owners of Atlantic Beach are allowed to charge for parking, but the surrounding towns must have permits to charge a fee. "We gotta think about these businesses and their need for spaces,'' Taylor said. The lot across from Hawaiian Rumble serves a Subway, a Baskin Robbins and a golf store.
Taylor said Bob Detwiler, the owner of Hawaiian Rumble and two other lots, offered the lots for trailer parking during Bikefest but was turned down by Atlantic Beach council.
Taylor on Friday looked at the line of cars stacking up at the nearby light and chuckled. "It's only Friday afternoon and it's already backin' up to Myrtle Beach. Wait 'til tonight."
"Wait" might be the key word for the next few days.
