Daytona Black Bike Week 2023: Daytona Beach Bike Week | Bike Week Part 3 of 3

Daytona Black Bike Week 2023: Daytona Beach Bike Week | Bike Week Part 3 of 3 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 discrimination 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. “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 cele