Myrtle Beach....What a ride...

We rolled out of Knoxville , Tennessee thursday morning with ( 3 ) bikes headin' for the Atlantic Ocean and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.The weather thursday was great we started out in the lower 30's and arrived in Myrtle Beach with temps in the mid 60's I even killed a few bugs with the windshield.

Friday morning we rode out doin' the coast toward Charleston, South Carolina to Patriots Point.The weather friday was cold in the morning and only got colder as the day went on with high winds.

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Cool bridge however I can't remember the name of it.

South Carolina is a helmet free state however in Myrtle Beach you MUST have one.

Beautiful pics, Wish it would stop snowing long enough so I can put some miles on my new tire greazman[Rich]

I'll have more later I've rode 500 miles today and partied every night on this ride.... I gotta work tomorrow

I gotta ask, How many miles do you have on that bike now?
Damn I wish I could ride with yall. Looks like you had a blast.

Joe, it was nice meeting up with you guys Friday morning. I wish I could have ridden with you but it didn't work out. I'm still in charleston, the funeral is today at 11:00. I have to try to get back to Charlotte tomorrow before the weather acts up again. I'm looking forward to April.

MT

MAS Tequila wrote:Joe, it was nice meeting up with you guys Friday morning. I wish I could have ridden with you but it didn't work out. I'm still in charleston, the funeral is today at 11:00. I have to try to get back to Charlotte tomorrow before the weather acts up again. I'm looking forward to April.

MT

Good meeting you also we did close to 450 miles of ridin' over the weekend on the coast. Total miles around trip 1,380 miles.

Badmoon wrote:I gotta ask, How many miles do you have on that bike now?
Damn I wish I could ride with yall. Looks like you had a blast.

I know of several Valkyries with over 200,000 miles on them and I know of one that has 400,000 miles on it . Miles on a Valk don't matter as long as you take care of it. " Damn I wish I could ride with yall " all you gotta do is ....Bring It...LET'S RIDE

Back to the ride report I apologize for takin' two days to get this posted....I was burned out when I got home


The lady that owns The Sea Dip was so nice to us she claims the mayor is a idiot and all the old folks who voted him in are the ones wanting motorcycles out of Myrtle Beach. She claims all the old folks want is more old folks and bingo and golf in Myrtle Beach. The owner hooked us up I've stayed there several times in the past with my family on vacation. We had a 3 room with full kitchen ocean front . We paid $39.00 apiece for 3 nights then Charlie said he was just going to stay this week also ( You Can't Hide Money ) and rented it till next monday. Paul and I had planned on ridin' home on sunday however with the ice and snow in Tennessee and the Carolina's over the weekend we stayed a extra night hoping the roads would clear aliitle more. Charlie hooked us up with a freebie on sunday night so Paul and I had ( 4 ) nights in a ocean front for $9.75 a night <---no doubt the best deal I've ever got on a motel . We parked our bikes inside out of the weather to boot.




The beach was ours for the most part we did have to share with the sea-gulls.

On saturday the day of " The Polar Plunge " the weather was nasty with high wind sleet and rain and temps in the low 30's. We rode down to check out the plunge and even with the bad weather it still had a nice group hit the ocean. First picture is Moses leading the way.






It was bitter cold when these folks hit the water....And no I did'nt do " The Polar Plunge " but I do have the t-shirt .$47,000 was raised for The Special Olympics .

We rode every day and did 450 miles over the weekend just ridin' the coast north and south of Myrtle Beach. Sunday Paul and I rode north into North Carolina and zig-zaged into every little town between Wilmington and Myrtle Beach while Charlie played golf with his brother who lives in Myrtle Beach.Other than saturday we had great weather to ride . Heres some pictures of our ride on sunday.

We started seeing ice in the trees around I-20 and saw our first snow about 40 miles before crossing into North Carolina.We took Hwy. 25/70 to get around the I-40 rockslide and other than having to slow a few times for slick spots we had a great ride home.

The pictures looked great, especially of Charleston, SC my home town. I hope to be down there this Spring and do some riding with my brother. This really makes me home sick.

Richard

The bridge in Charleston is the 'Arhtur J Ravenel' bridge. Just got back to Charlotte about an hour ago.

MT