Wow. I learned something today! You go Ben Hardy!

[helima]

Sugar Bear and Ben Hardy (The Black Biker Experience)

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(Similar info, different delivery, different footage)

Here in Alton you really only see certain folks riding choppers and I have only seen one black
guy on one out of...too many to count. I have never even seen "Easy Rider" but it was still a pleasant
surprise to hear the history behind the

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[beamishgirl]

Fabulous post! Thanks for sharing. When I lived in New Brunswick, NJ I saw mostly black bikers. There would be about 10-15 of these amazingly colorful and vibrant sports bikes parked out on the main street known as Easton Ave.

And you should definitely put Easy RIder on your "must see" lists of film. There's one soliloquy that Jack Nickelson delivers while sitting around a campfire that will move you to tears.

[helima]

Thank you!
You know when I was young I had two good memories in rgards to bikers?
My mom's best friend who was an Irish schoolteacher and being at my grandmas over the summer, you would hear this load rumble and dozens upon dozens black bikers would ride past her house on their way up to Hawk's Bar. She HATED it but I would sit at the window grinning like I was waiting on the Ice Cream man? Before that I thought bikers were all Hell's Angels and Outlaws and ate small black children (kinda!)

There is still plenty of that down here but you also get lucky and see some color or just open-minded bikers. Otherwise, we get shunned aplenty down here.

I will add Easy Rider to my queue.