Bike Week visit

[lawn psycho]

Originally Posted by NHBUOY

...LR, it IS kind of a (100+years?) long held,traditional date, and it used to be a crowded, "long" weekend thing, appropriately timed for Father's day...now it's a week-long event...I think the HUGE turnouts, for a couple of years there, was partially the economy, COMBINED with a RE-discovery & resurgence of the motorcycle as a "recreational toy"...the weather is what it is...MOVING MCWeek to a "regular summer season" date, IMO, the merchants don't NEED, or can accomodate, MCWeek'ers during that time...I think the economy has "thinned" the traffic, and the weather has been way better than the forecasts have said it should be...and...wait 15mins...it'll change anyways......

It's much more about beer tents and t-shirt sales now. It's not a motorcycle event except that it's motorcyclists who are buying the beer and t-shirts.

If it were to just go back to a single weekend I think the vendors would probably make out better. Now they are just stretching out the same sales effort over a longer period of time.

A July or August date is a non-starter for many reasons.