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Two separate accidents on 544 late Friday night around 10pm and 10:20pm claimed the life to two bikers. These accidents are the first biker fatalities during Myrtle Beach Bike Week. We were on scene at the 544 accident which happened directly across from the Boardwalk shopping plaza on 544, 1.5miles up from Bypass 17. Four vehicles were involved in the accident across from the Boardwalk plaza, two motorcycles, a truck, and a compact car. Unconfirmed reports are that the Mitsubishi Eclipse veered into northbound traffic and hit one motorcycle, then the other motorcycle hit that one, upon that the Mitsubishi continued on causing an accident with a Ford F150 truck. Details of the accident are still being investigated. As always ride safe, helmets do save lives. And those in cars, please use a turn signal and give plenty of warning and look in mirrors and your blind spot.

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We attended the Myrtle Beach Bike Week Freedom Ride today. Many rode in protest of the new laws mainly the new helmet law. We had many people waving and cheering us on starting at the Myrtle Beach Harley Davidson dealership and Wimpys all along Ocean Boulevard through Myrtle Beach. 

If you want to see pictures and videos of this event and more bike week information goto our new website below.

Bikers who received tickets will be represented by Matt Danielson at Tom McGrath's Motorcycle Law Group.

The following I have taken from our new website MyrtleBeachBikeWeekFun.com

First off I would like to thank everyone who attended this event to make it a success. In spite of the rain which started off with drizzle, today's Freedom Ride was a great time. This ride started off at the Beaver Bar in Murrells Inlet and continued through Myrtle Beach along Ocean Boulevard and back.

A total of 49 tickets were given out, the majority of them being for the helmet infraction. Some wore helmets, but the majority didn't. The Police Department of Myrtle Beach said they had better things to do than to plant officers along the route because this time of the year is when officers go on vacation and this time is used for officer training, HA, what a joke.

Read this from the Sun News, MyrtleBeachOnline.com City Manager of Myrtle Beach, Tom Leath said "We"ll have our normal patrols on  - maybe even less, because we try to schedule vacations and training during the winter," We're just going to enforce the law like we will every day." I guess someone didn't get the memo from Tom Leath huh?

The training he mentioned was to practice writing the new codes for the laws onto citations, so they wouldn't have a problem doing it come the Myrtle Beach Bike Week Spring Rally. The city wasn't fooling anyone when they said this. I guess they knew they would be giving some overtime pay this week on about 20 officers paychecks.

I myself counted around 10 cop cars along the route with someone stopped, 2 cops per car. I was one of the last people getting onto the Ocean Boulevard, sure enough a cop gets behind me (can see in one of videos), probably running my tag, he didn't pull me over, kinda a shocker, but he turned on his lights and headed up 29th ave S, probably to a call other than the Freedom Ride. I think the whole Myrtle Beach police force was on Ocean Boulevard, way to go MBPD way to protect our city!

I will be posting pictures and video here of Myrtle Beach Freedom Ride 2009 once I get them edited and uploaded to the server.

My camera got ruined during this ride (knew it probably would, but was worth it), some of the pictures and which I took are lost. I apologize to those who's picture I took and it won't be on this site. If you have pictures and videos I would love to see them, I can post them here with your name, where you are from, if you got a ticket or not, etc. Just email them to me with whatever information you would like posted along with it, keep it in a small paragraph though if you would.

Keep this page bookmarked and check back with us. Sign up to the newsletter to get an email when the pictures and videos are online. Hopefully they will be up by Sunday or Monday.

Thank-you. Steve

What | Myrtle Beach Helmet Freedom Ride
When | Meet at 11 a.m. Saturday
Where | Starts at The Beaver Bar, 3381 U.S. 17 Business, Murrells Inlet. Maps of the ride's route will be handed out before the ride starts at noon.
Rain date | March 7, same time and place

Calling all bikers from near and far, get your helmets, change your pipes to stock and get on this ride, well that's if you don't want to increase the chance of getting a citation. This Saturday in Myrtle Beach new laws for bikers go into affect. Two of which are being highly protested being the helmet law, and noise law (89dec).  The helmet law is being passed over a State Law that only requires those of 21 and under to abide by. The noise ordinance is so low that if you were mowing your lawn you literally could get a ticket for the noise.

There will probably be close to 500 bikers. All bikes welcome, all races, male and female, come ride support Myrtle Beach Bike Week and Atlantic Beach Bike Week show Myrtle Beach you don't care they passed the laws, Bike Weeks will still go on with or without the city of Myrtle Beach.

Well if you want to get on this ride show up with your ride however you want. This ride is not being sponsored by anyone and is being led by no one, it is simply a gathering of riders, FREEDOM BABY!

Things to note:
It is your responsibility to have current registration, insurance, and that your motorcycle complies with the laws. If you choose to ride with no helmet, loud exhaust, without insurance, registration etc, It is your fault and no others if you get a ticket.

This ride is not being formed for a rebellious purpose, it is simply a group of bikers joining together for a ride through the city, to enjoy each others company, and to feel free. After all isn't that what riding a bike is for FREEDOM?

See you there.
Steve