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Before the Bikes Arrive...

Posted by abohan Minggu, 10 Juni 2012 0 komentar

On a cool June night just days before Motorcycle Week, Weirs Beach is quiet. You can hear the water lap gently at the sandy beach.

But there are spurts of noise and activity in the area.

On both sides of Lakeside Avenue, where motorcycles will soon fill the slanted parking places, tractor trailer trucks fill up almost 15 spaces a piece. Workers, with cigarettes dangling from the lips, unload their wares: T-shirts, souvenirs, leather goods... One truck, owned by Tents & Events, is from an obscure Florida town. (Osolo? Orolo? Can't even pronounce it.)

The arcades where hundreds of people will enjoy themselves in less than 36 hours are peculiarly empty. [NOTE: Learned after this story published that arcades are closed during Bike Week; space used by vendors.] All the games are piled up at the far end as workers ready the floor space. Some "naked" female mannequins stand piled in a corner - some with only half their bodies attached - waiting for the store next door to call them into service.

Some signs reveal the peculiar nature of Bike Week.

A small tent announces "free medical care and legal advice." A small food truck promotes its "gourmet pizza". (Can you really get gourmet pizza from a food truck?) Another tent advertises a "holistic herbal elixir" called "Drink No Evil."

And the distinctive red, white and blue sign is already lit up, pointing people onto Lakeside Avenue and "Weirs Beach."

On a cool Spring night hours before Bike Week.

In the nearby Lobster Pond parking lot, vendors are already securing their tents, their work done for the night. And you notice, perhaps for the first time, that many signs simply announce that "rally" goods are for sale - not "Laconia Rally". And you remember, from past conversations, that these folks live the "carny" life. They move from one motorcycle rally to another - Daytona to Sturgis to the Laconia to the next smaller one - with little opportunity to visit, to take in the views, to get the know the charms of the Lakes Region.

And you're reminded of a sign you saw in a restaurant this week. It goes something like this: "If you're really good and say your prayers every night and are nice to people, when you die you'll wake up in - NEW HAMPSHIRE!"

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