Keep up with all the day's biker news, photo galleries, videos, traffic updates, vendor locations and more with our Jonathon Formo, owner of Redline Power Sports on U. S. 501 in the county portion of Myrtle Beach, had a parking lot with lots of full spaces Saturday afternoon, but nothing compared to last year, he said.
The seller of sport bikes, equipment and gear, normally has a handful of vendors at his shop during The Atlantic Beach Memorial Day Bikefest. This year the parking lot seems quiet and empty, compared to the view of bobbing heads and meticulously lined up bikes that have been gaining in numbers over the last five years.
``Right at the tail end of everything the county decided to make this an overlay district, the 501 overlay district and say that no vendors would be allowed because they hold up traffic,'' Formo said. ``But they haven't enforced that for everyone.''
Formo said the county issued permits to vendors during a recent car show near Freestyle Music Park, in the old Waccamaw Mall. He said he counted about 75 vendors and was told by the county that the event was allowed permits because it was not-for profit.
``It didn't look like that to me, and we want to make sure that everyone has to abide by the law, if it stays a law,'' he said. ``It's discriminatory to only enforce it for motorcycle events, and it's discriminatory not to allow tourists who are on motorcycles into this city.''
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