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Bike Week Diary

Posted by abohan Selasa, 19 Juni 2012 0 komentar

If you stand at the foot of Tower Hill and look down Lakeside Avenue on a warm summer day, the reflections from metals and mirrors on the rows of motorcycles emits a wavy aura.

It’s the kind of thing you’d see over street pavement on a hot day. The epicenter of Bike Week looks hotter from a distance than it is.

Working at restaurant just yards from Weirs Beach, the crowds, the activities, the people all look different than they do when you’re standing back. As a journalist, I’ve been in the area during the day for years.

But never at night.

It’s not to say that it’s not somewhat weird. The percentage of tattoos per person in the crowd is uncommonly high. My first full night, two young women dressed in too-tight jeans and t-shirts danced seductively closed together to the hot boogie-woogie music; but it was apparently more for the amusement of the drinking folks at the tables then themselves. On another night, a fellow strolled through the crowd with a pink rat on a leash sitting on his shoulder. A day later, some fireworks were set off right outside the patio area.

But most of the people were pleasant. Even the most tattooed displayed uncommon patience when asked to wait for a table. And while some freely admitted they’d come just to “get drunk,” most seemed to hold their liquor pretty well.

On the first Sunday of Bike Week, the ATM machine nearby ran out of cash.

“Good sign,” said someone on the staff, indicating the problem pointed to a financially profitable week.

By Monday, it was apparent things were going to come together: the best weather for the nine-day event in years was forecast.

Harley-Davidson t-shirts from around the country abounded: New Orleans, Corpus Christi, Tucson, Lake George (N.Y.), and Caba San Luca, Mexico.

“If loud pipes save lives,” commented one shirt, “imagine what learning to drive that thing could do.”

The oldest Laconia t-shirts were from 1997 – 15 years old; there were two. That was the 74^th Lakes Region event; this year was the 89^th. Next year will be the 90^th for the oldest biker rally in America. That should be something.

(More To Come.)

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