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NSBNEWS.net photo and video by Sera Frederick. Members of the "Outlaws" motorcycle gang head north on Atlantic Avenue from Daytona Beach toward Ormond Beach in this photo shot in traffic late Saturday night. The video shows the scene on Main Street in Daytona Beach, ground zero for Bike Week, as captured in this video during a drive-through on Saturday night. As a special treat, NSBNEWS.net sets the video to the music of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" and The Band's "The Weight," from the soundtrack to the movie Easy Rider.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Bike Week 2010 is over. So, too, are the lives of four bikers.
The decadence and excitement that is Bike Week was on display in its purest form Saturday night on Main Street where loud bikes, loud music, loud people and loud lights were the order of the night.
Saturday also proved tragic twice over.
A fourth biker, identified as Tommy Keith, 38, of Jonesboro, Ga., was killed instantly at 12:45 a.m. when he smashed his sport-bike into the center concrete divider and then a light pole on the International Speedway Boulevard Bridge while westbound while riding at an "excessive speed," Daytona Beach police said in a pree release, without releasing ony other details, except that two other bikers were hit, but weren't injured.
Later Saturday, as previously reported, A 32-year-old Tampa-area biker was killed when he lost control of his 2000 Suzuki motorcycle on Interstate 4, smacked a guardrail and then overturned, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Edgar Javier Gonzalez of Riverview, who was wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead on the scene of the 5:50 p.m. accident on the eastbound side near Lake Helen.
The first fatality was that of an Ohio woman, Linda Lockwood, 46, killed Sunday when she was thrown from the back of a Harley that collided with another bike after both touched while heading in the same direction on South Atlantic Avenue in New Smyrna Beach.
The second death occurred early Tuesday in DeLeon Springs, when just after midnight, Paul Allen Jarrett, 53, of West Virginia, and a friend, both retired police officers, were riding their Harleys north on US-17 when Jarrett lost control of his bike, crashed into a fence and separated from the bike.