I think Charleston is a fairly bike friendly place with the College of Charleston downtown, though with the state of the roads there (potholes) I'm not sure I'd want to ride around. I'm from Savannah, just across the river from HH, and HH is one of the few places where there are paths everywhere (even inconvenient, crowded ones). So I can see how the cops there could get anal about the rules. They seem to be like that about basically everything.

When I go home for the holidays, I'm going to take my bike. Where I'm going to ride it.. I'm not sure. But I know I can do some laps around Tybee Island (right next to HH.. sort of) and I can ride on the street. I'd love to ride the causeway out there, but it can be dangerous (no good shoulders, lots of high speed traffic, 2 lane most of the way). I can come up with a couple short loop ideas but a lot of stop and go.

What's ironic (GA vs. SC) is that in Savannah there is an ordinance that bikers can't ride on sidewalks through the squares. The students would do that instead of going around, because it's straight through and wide sidewalks usually, and going around merging traffic can't really see you with the cars parked around the square. .. hard enough to see cars coming. They even tried to ban bikes in the one big park where I used to ride all the time as a kid. Only 1 sq mile but fun for a kid on a fixed gear bike to do some laps and cut through. I don't think that lasted long though, because the adjacent roads are narrow and banked and dangerous. It also seems to be ok for people to park on some of the bike paths there too. Silly.