Bike week douche bags

[G21forme]

you don't have a clue, bike week today is mild compared to what it was in 60's and 70's

So you agree it sucks, I'm all for it just didn't be an asshole is my point.

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[RandyO]

So you agree it sucks, I'm all for it just didn't be an asshole is my point.

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what sucks about bike week? traffic pretty much sticks to main routes, visitors spend money. Tourism is what makes the Lakes Region economy tick

[RandyO]

when I first moved here from VT in the early 70's, they still had open camping, in the 80s, bike week was reduced to just a weekend of "official events" until the 90s when it went back to the whole week event that it was previously

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http://www.wmur.com/news/tbt-laconia...-1972/26571220

[bstnsboy]

Unbunch your panties....its a week of bikers having fun.....yes there are a few assholes but all around most are decent people. Just my 2 cents.

[2v2Ducati]

The first time I remember seeing tits was in the 90's at bike week.... being flashed by some haggard ass biker broad while on the back of my dads Softail... haha

[Krazy Again]

How about all the business owners in the Laconia area? The hotels/motels/campgrounds that sell out their spaces for the week? A large percentage of their income comes from bike week. All the meals/room tax revenue that generates. Think about the bike week specific business that comes in. You stated that the towns get nothing to very little of it. Did you forget that every pop up tent that is selling anything needs a permit? Even the ones on private or commercial property.

You moved into the area, knowing that this occurs every year. It's not even like it has only been going on for 5 to 10 years. It's 91 years!!! Ninety one. Let that sink in. Your grandfather was likely not born or a pre teen when this started. And you think that it isn't a money generator? If it wasn't, it would likely have been shut down a long time ago.

I am not saying that there aren't SOME assholes. Hell, I went through the area and walked the strip twice this week. I don't like that there are 10 Hells Angels chapters there. But the fact is, people were keeping pretty well quiet. Sure, loud and obnoxious at times, but not over the top. I do think something needs to be done to attract a more diverse crowd, but that is just to keep it alive. The last couple years it has been the same things to see and do. If that isn't fixed, then it may die a slow death anyway,

People take vacations to come up to Bike Week. Well, since you live in the area, why not take a vacation during Bike Week as well and leave the area? Solve two problems at once. 1-when to go on vacation, 2-get away from that which you are complaining about.

[G21forme]

I should have made this thread a psa on not being an asshole at bike week. @ Krazy I did plan a long weekend with the family in Providence last weekend what would have been the last weekend of bike week but the fuckers moved it back a week. Moral of the story don't be a douche bag when you come to someone's town. Show some respect and yes it has been going on forever but that doesn't give you a free pass to be a dumb cunt. : Rant off:

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Eta rant back on: Btw I don't live in laconia, I live 30 minutes away so it's not like I moved to Fucking funspot and complain about the broken spoke. I avoid that shit like the plague but of course I have to work on a Fucking boat house on the winn today.

[TIMMYDUCK]

All I will say is that, as you being a fellow rider , you might be just a little more tolerant .

It's all over in about 60 hours now anyhow.

[nt650hawk]

Bring back Animal Hill and let all the shenanigans happen in a localized area away from the public>>>


Can't be anything like Main street in FL in Biketober. WOW

[Pittenger5]

Isnt this the same argument that people who move in next to a track use to get it shut down?

[RandyO]

Can't be anything like Main street in FL in Biketober. WOW

in 1965, the National Guard was called out

http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/4...howardknowlton

[nt650hawk]

Yea, and people that move next to a highway and demand a wall be put up becase of the noise polition.




on the other hand.

I agree the douchery should not be tolerated.

[G21forme]

Isnt this the same argument that people who move in next to a track use to get it shut down?

It's not, bikes awesome, cool people awesome, traffic whatever it's a vacation spot that happens. Being a complete asshole is not OK in my book that's it. I can tell not many people live up here so you don't really get it but there are so many douche bags it's rediculous. People get this anything goes attitude and go nuts while they are away from thier day to day lives and get into this biker mob mentality in thier outfits and nobody wants that. Big deal the dunkins and liquor stores have a good week, news flash people travel here all year long! Leaf peepers, skiers, snowmobilers, the lakes, all awesome and huge revenue that nobody complains about. Hell even Nascar is welcomed so why is it this one week of the year is the bane of NH residents. Survey says a bunch of dumb cunts show up and behave like assholes.

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[mzdagrl]

All I will say is that, as you being a fellow rider , you might be just a little more tolerant .

It's all over in about 60 hours now anyhow.

I see where he's coming from, and I think you guys are missing the point. I went up there once on my own to check it out. ONCE. I hated every "creepy old dude" second of it. I went once with Rob and a couple other male rider buddies and it wasn't so bad. Being female in the lakes region during bike week means one of two things: you look like a dude and no one notices you, or you have to put up with some of the most rampant sexual harrassment ever to cross into NH. Yes the majority of people are minding their own drunken business and havign a good time. But there is a higher-than-normal concentration of DBs who are there just to see boobs and harrass young girls while they drunk-drive their Harley 9000's into trees.

[Stoneman]

I can kind of dig what he was getting at. There ARE definitely a large number of complete assholes that seem to think the event only serves as their vehicle for totally dumping on everything within sight or reach. It is however, what it is. We deal with it best we can and constantly remind ourselves of how it supports certain economies, no matter how short lived...

No, we don't live in Laconia. We're about 20 miles from Weirs, down by Alton. But our area is largely populated by vacation/holiday rentals and we feel the full effects of Bike Week year after year. There was a stretch of 10 or so years that MANY around us looked upon us the same way. Stonnerstock TERRORIZED our area. Our ex-neighbor even sited that as the main reason for selling their house and moving...

It's ALL what we continue to cherish about Bike Week. But it DOES have downsides...

[butcher bergs]

Nothing a few Range Rovers can't solve

[Falko]

In a few years they'll all be on electric Harleys and it will sound like a skateboard convention. Lights will dim at night as they all charge up, and the drunks will get electrocuted pissing on the chargers. It will never end....

[Kenn157]

Greg, what if it was more like "Americade" at Lake George? I wonder if the same debauchery goes on there? Just asking..

[nhbubba]

So what happened, specifically, anyway?

I seem to be comfortably insulated from the shit-show over here on the Seacoast.

[SwiftTone]

They should move bike week to Harpersfield, NY

[Paul_E_D]

Hahaha, perfect!

[greenmonster]

In a few years they'll all be on electric Harleys and it will sound like a skateboard convention. Lights will dim at night as they all charge up, and the drunks will get electrocuted pissing on the chargers. It will never end....

[Garandman]

Feel free to do your own research to prove me wrong if you'd like, maybe read up on basic economics while you're at it and see what exactly you or the community gets from an event like this

From the Concord Monitor:

Bike Week 2014 started Friday and is expected to bring in 250,000 people and pump upwards of $100 million into the state’s economy before it ends next Sunday.

Tourism officials usually calculate spending per day for target groups, as documented here. They try to calculate the return on marketing investment to find the best ways to advertise. According to that doc, average tourist spending in $81 per day. If you take 250,000 bikers and divide by $100 million, that's $400 each.

Tourism is NH's largest or 2nd largest "industry." Total tourist spending is calculated at $4.1 billion. That's real money where I come from. If it's any consolation, the entire state gets roughly 33 million visitors per year: Boston gets 18 million by itself.

My wife is from St Augustine FL and they love bike week down there. I was surprised to hear this and questioned one hotel manager: it turns out that motorcyclists spend about 50% more per day than the average tourist.

[Rambunctous]

I went up to Weirs on a Friday night after the racing was over and I cannot imagine sitting there all week long enjoying it. Seems like the most boring thing ever. Same dumb stuff all week.
A while back I met a HD guy and I was talking about racing at LRRS. He tells me that the track is closed and he got special permission to use it with a few others and his fat boob with S&S carbs was the fastest bike there. After some questioning it turns out he was doing Larry's Laps and he thought he was racing.
They do spend 50% more. The prices get jacked up on everything.

[Rosco61]

I was there in 1982. The debauchery these days is nothing compared to what I saw at the track back then. We camped at the track maybe not such a bright idea in retrospect. They shot some guy and pushed his van down a cliff or some sort of hill. I did not go look. They had scaffolding 3 or 4 tiers high and every conceivable sex act was played out on the stages for all to see all day long with a MC to describe it all. There were crazy bastards everywhere fighting, torching shit. I was about 19 years old and it was unbelievable. I saw too many things there that still stand out in my mind like it was yesterday. Over all as a young kid it was a awesome spectacle to witness. Never seen anything like it since then either. That was some crazy Shit.