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Originally Posted by Skip
Interesting article in today's Citizen where Bike Week organizer Charlie St. Clair expresses his opinion that a variety of factors may combine to keep attendance down again this year.
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Thank you Skip for an interesting link. The article addresses only some of the reasons bike week attendance will be down. It is not just the high gouging prices charged by many businesses from parking lots to rooms. The high police presence is indeed part of the equation. People are afraid to come to Lake Winnipesaukee. The area is overrun with high power ocean going speed boats and the type of people who own and operate them. That is what is scaring the bikers away.
The bikers and their families do not feel safe here. They have spotty cell phone coverage particularly in the Alton area. They can't call each other or for help. Too many ocean going fast boats and coping with the attitudes of the people who believe it their right to us the full power of their boats to speed around the lake. These are also contributing factors.
The Winnipesaukee speed limit proponents might be right about fear and speed boats. Even the bikers are afraid to hang out here. Less swimming, water craft rentals and fun. We restrict the Weirs boulevard road to vehicles with 4 or more wheels but we let the boaters speed and do almost anything everywhere.
