Daytona Black Bike Week 2024! Daytona Bike Week (Friday Night) : Daytona Bike Week | Motorcycle

This has become one of my Favorite Events to attend.
Unofficial Black Bike Week in Daytona Beach. Daytona Beach has a very interesting history. My grandfather told me back when he was young, the discriminations in Daytona Beach was very clear and evident. Black Vendors had a hard time selling products and getting a spot on Main Street aka Beach side, so to help their community and make some money on the other side of the tracks, Black Bike Week was set up near one of the most known HBCUs in Florida, Bethune Cookman University.
Daytona Black Bike Week 2024! Daytona Bike Week (Friday Night) : Daytona Bike Week | Motorcycle
"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 laid-back alternative to the crazy world of Cole-slaw Wrestling, high prices, machismo at the silicone-enhanced 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 Harley-Davidson 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, oil-seeping Harleys are as much a part of the Daytona scene as overpriced beer and cheap T-shirts you’ll never wear. Asberry’s problem wasn’t the color of the 40-weight 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 three-block 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. It is this spirit of resilience that keeps Black Bike Week together, as it attracts an international mix of riders who, like the founders, come looking for a more family-oriented alternative to the raucous, corporate-sponsored mayhem of Daytona’s Main Street."
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[@FloridaFlipFlops]

Hello from your friends in Naples, Florida. Holy cow! That was awesome. Some of those bikes are unbelievable. Thank you for sharing the amazing views with us, have a great week 👍 💯 ❤

[@cuzzintruck2]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@roywilliams1842]

Outstanding, thank you for sharing!!!! ⭐

[@cuzzintruck2]

You are welcome!

[@Vladpryde]

Thank you for the article and info about Black Bike Week in your Description.

[@cuzzintruck2]

You're welcome. People act as if they don't understand the history of Daytona.

[@Vladpryde]

@@cuzzintruck2 I live on the opposite side of the country in Oregon and I've never been to Daytona. So it's always good to learn some history of other places, especially as I want to go there someday, when I get a motorcycle. Thanks again!

[@raquelprado8527]

On fire!!!...👌🏽🙏🏼😉💯🔥💫🌠

[@theeboujeeone5681]

You always have the best footage....Love it!!!

[@cuzzintruck2]

Thanks! I truly appreciate that.

[@francoisobasi1310]

Hmmmm. Those massive front wheels good for rolling onto your trailer and going down the block.

[@byrondhouston]

The light show! Great video!

[@cuzzintruck2]

Thanks for watching!

[@AUDIOENTERTAINMENT--TECHNOLOGY]

nice Daytona/ Mertle beach 2024 lets get it

[@mcgowananderson7405]

Great video 📹 found my bike at the end, good looking out..

[@cuzzintruck2]

Thanks! Happy to know you found the video

[@mcgowananderson7405]

I watch your videos 📹 all the time, you have a great sense of capturing the event. This is the 2nd time I made the cut once in 2022 and this last one. I have the Nardo Grey Can Am Spyder seen in the last minute. Thanks again.

[@leeannthrower1697]

I'm watching in my bedroom in Alabama

[@FukumoneY]

GOOD JOB BRO

[@cuzzintruck2]

Thanks

[@FloridaFlipFlops]

Like 182 👍 💯 ❤

[@BeachVision]

Where in Daytona Beach is Black Bike Week held?

[@cuzzintruck2]

Near Bethune Cookman College

[@ricosharpmotivations]

💪😎

[@dthompson2807]

Love your channel and content ... 💯

[@cuzzintruck2]

Appreciate that

[@ricosharpmotivations]

✌️😎

[@muhammadfaisalemir3172]

#1355 👍

[@rudolphhooks3985]

DUCK WALKERS!!!!! LETS GO HUNTING LOL

[@algorerhythm7663]

Nothing says newbie like never taking your feet off the street.

[@peterngatuere-yj3jl]

Isn't Daytona bike week what's with 3wheelers and cars that sucks 9:19