It has been a long hectic year, but as most know I have left Bikers of SC and ventured on my own to Biker Events of SC.  Yes, there have been some smart ass comments about me doing that, and well, I don't give a shit.  Leaving BoSC was a VERY hard decision for me.  I have been there since the beginning and wanted to see it through to the end.  However, with growth comes change, some good, some not so good and some bad.  A lot of the changes were for the good, others were what they were but there were some that I just refused to be a part of.  I love all my BoSC brothers and sisters from the beginning, I will always have their back as I know they would mine.  There have been a lot of he said, she said floating around as will happen in any organization.  I am not here to do that.  I am here to explain to my followers why I left.  Nothing more, nothing less.  I love Steel Toes, Becca, Hollywood and still believe in the vision we had when we started BoSC.  That vision was lost somewhere a long the way with some of the new admins.  I felt that the BoSC was becoming more like a MC or RC than what we originally started as, a page to help the bikers find information on the rides, events and rallies coming up in the areas they lived in and around the state and to communicate with other bikers for information, bikes for sale or just as free advertisement for businesses directed at the biker community.  When we split up the page and each of us managers took a different area of the state, that vision got lost for the most part.  I tried and tried to make sense of it and hoped beyond hope that things would change.  They did not, so I took a step back.  I know that there are a lot of my friends on the page that followed me to my new page and I appreciate that.  I have been busy planning a wedding so I have not been scouring the net this week as I should.  However, I will be back at it tomorrow and get you the fliers and info that you want and deserve.  I will continue to write on this blog as long as there are views on the posts.  Please follow Bikers of South Carolina.  IT is truly a great organization, just not the one for me.

Charity (In The Biker Community)

So, as we gear up for the 2014 "riding season" and a very much needed ride tomorrow for the Fallen Riders Memorial Fund-SC to collect donations that will help while our fallen brothers and sisters are in the hospital, I keep thinking about how much good we, the bikers, do for our community and our nation.  Every year, there are annual rides, some of them that have been going on for almost half a century.  I know that every year in September I attend the Bikers Who Care Toy Run & Benefit Party (2013 being the 32nd Annual Event).  Every single penny they earn goes to Children's Charities in their community.  They have done wonderful things in their community and they are a sense of pride for most of the community.  After this summer's fiasco in NY, I was stunned to see people on some of my Facebook feeds put all bikers in the same category as those bikers.  I seen people get offended and complain that it was because of the bikes they were riding or sadly because of the color of their skin.  We get it all the time.  One person or one group of people do something that makes National News and we are all included and blamed, even when we are states or even countries away.  I cannot deny there are a few bad apples in every walk of life, but they do not dictate nor set the standard for all.  We gather toys for the children in our communities, we provide Veteran's with essentials, we provide support and raise money for people in our communities, yet we are judged by what only a small percentage of bikers do.  Over 3,000 bikes have shown up at the annual event I attend and the out pouring response from the community is amazing.  They line the streets like it is a parade waving and cheering, they stop in the middle of the road as a sign of respect, they convene at the drop off point to such an extravagance that there is no room in the MALL parking lot to park.  It didn't happen overnight, but it happened all the same.  I can't wait to see that kind of acceptance all over.  I don't think it will happen in my lifetime, but maybe my grand children's and I pray that each and every one of them is a part of that line of bikes riding to bring joy to children, Veterans and someone in need.  There are much worse things you can do in this lifetime than to open your heart and give while knowing that people will judge you by your lifestyle not your character.  So keep it up my fellow brothers and sisters.......let your character define you, not someone else's idea of who you are.