Bike Week pics
As promised in the last post, here are some pictures from Bike Week.
I've uploaded them, but left them full sized so you can see better details. (actually, it's because I'm feeling lazy tonight and don't feel like messing with them)
These are all from Weirs Beach. It's called Weirs Beach because the Pennacook Indians had a fish weir set up there in the old days. Today it is a popular tourist spot on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Like I said, the pics are pretty big files, so be patient while they download. Use your browser's back button to get back to this page.
Here's Caleigh, looking very grown up, relaxing on a picnic table at The Lobster Pound, enjoying a corn dog. The Lobster Pound is a local eatery and landmark. She has discovered corn dogs and thinks they are one of the best foods ever invented.
This crowd is at the entrance to the Drive In. for the rest of the summer, it is an old fashioned drive-in theater. For bike week, it is a motorcycle parking lot, stage, bazaar, and display area. Need a tattoo? Get it at the Drive In. Need chrome engine parts? Get them at the Drive In. Need to get totally wasted while listening to high-decibel blues music? You guessed it, go to the Drive In. It's also a good place to hang out and watch the bikes roll into the Weirs, as most of them go in to the parking area or pass by the entrance to turn down Lakeside Ave. The line of traffic that you see in the road is miles long.
Caleigh wanted to try out this wicked cool scooter-trike that was for sale along with a few other oddball mini-choppers and funky pit bikes outside the "Wall of Death" stunt show in the Drive In. It was for sale for $795. The cooler was full of beer, I didn't ask if the beer went with the bike or not.
Here is a view of the famous Weirs Beach sign at the corner. Down the street to the right, they don't allow four wheeled vehicles for the weekend. It is four rows of bike parking, two lanes of bike traffic, and zillions of pedestrians. The road is lined with vendors, the regular stores along the main drag even pack up their stuff and rent out their space to vendors for the week. This is one of the better places to hang out at the Weirs to watch stuff happen. Although, to be honest, not much stuff happens these days.
Here is another. You can see Lakeside Ave PACKED with people.
As you walk along the waterfront, away from the Weirs sign, there is the train station on your right, and behin it is the dock for the MV Mt. Washington. The Mt Washington is a cruise ship that operates on the lake and ties up to provide one of the regular party venues at the Weirs. Since we had Caleigh with us, we couldn't go aboard, but we got to hear the band from the dock. Here she is.
By the time we were over by the train station, we were pretty hot and tired. We had spent the previous day at Story Land, and Caleigh was tired, so we ended up taking turns carrying her. She's pushing 40 pounds at this point, so that gets tiring after a while. We decided to catch the next train back to Merideth and head home. When we were sitting in the train, waiting to go, I snapped a few more pics out the window of some of the bikes on Lakeside. Here is one shot, here is another. The second one caught a V-8 powered trike roaring up Lakeside.
For some reason this shot cracks me up. It shouldn't, because in the old days at bike week you'd see all kinds of crazy stuff on 2 or 3 wheels. Nobody gave anybody else any crap about it, so long as they rode it there. You could have a total rat bike, a high-end custom, or anything in between and you'd go and have a good time. These days it seems like everyone has a V-twin, and there were only a few rat bikes, at least that we saw. (I'm a big fan of rat bikes) The coolest rat bike was an antique Harley with an equally antique sidecar. It had Maine plates, and the sidecar was bungee corded down to a platform that was clearly designed to use to haul stuff like lumber etc. It was dented, rusty, patched and pretty obvious that the guy rode it there from Maine as opposed to trailering it like so many of the custom jobs these days. I don't know why I didn't get a picture of it. But I digress...take a look at the picture linked to at the start of this paragraph and you'll see a Honda scooter with Florida plates and a milk crate screwed to the back squeezed in with the V-twins! That's the spirit!
I've uploaded them, but left them full sized so you can see better details. (actually, it's because I'm feeling lazy tonight and don't feel like messing with them)
These are all from Weirs Beach. It's called Weirs Beach because the Pennacook Indians had a fish weir set up there in the old days. Today it is a popular tourist spot on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Like I said, the pics are pretty big files, so be patient while they download. Use your browser's back button to get back to this page.
Here's Caleigh, looking very grown up, relaxing on a picnic table at The Lobster Pound, enjoying a corn dog. The Lobster Pound is a local eatery and landmark. She has discovered corn dogs and thinks they are one of the best foods ever invented.
This crowd is at the entrance to the Drive In. for the rest of the summer, it is an old fashioned drive-in theater. For bike week, it is a motorcycle parking lot, stage, bazaar, and display area. Need a tattoo? Get it at the Drive In. Need chrome engine parts? Get them at the Drive In. Need to get totally wasted while listening to high-decibel blues music? You guessed it, go to the Drive In. It's also a good place to hang out and watch the bikes roll into the Weirs, as most of them go in to the parking area or pass by the entrance to turn down Lakeside Ave. The line of traffic that you see in the road is miles long.
Caleigh wanted to try out this wicked cool scooter-trike that was for sale along with a few other oddball mini-choppers and funky pit bikes outside the "Wall of Death" stunt show in the Drive In. It was for sale for $795. The cooler was full of beer, I didn't ask if the beer went with the bike or not.
Here is a view of the famous Weirs Beach sign at the corner. Down the street to the right, they don't allow four wheeled vehicles for the weekend. It is four rows of bike parking, two lanes of bike traffic, and zillions of pedestrians. The road is lined with vendors, the regular stores along the main drag even pack up their stuff and rent out their space to vendors for the week. This is one of the better places to hang out at the Weirs to watch stuff happen. Although, to be honest, not much stuff happens these days.
Here is another. You can see Lakeside Ave PACKED with people.
As you walk along the waterfront, away from the Weirs sign, there is the train station on your right, and behin it is the dock for the MV Mt. Washington. The Mt Washington is a cruise ship that operates on the lake and ties up to provide one of the regular party venues at the Weirs. Since we had Caleigh with us, we couldn't go aboard, but we got to hear the band from the dock. Here she is.
By the time we were over by the train station, we were pretty hot and tired. We had spent the previous day at Story Land, and Caleigh was tired, so we ended up taking turns carrying her. She's pushing 40 pounds at this point, so that gets tiring after a while. We decided to catch the next train back to Merideth and head home. When we were sitting in the train, waiting to go, I snapped a few more pics out the window of some of the bikes on Lakeside. Here is one shot, here is another. The second one caught a V-8 powered trike roaring up Lakeside.
For some reason this shot cracks me up. It shouldn't, because in the old days at bike week you'd see all kinds of crazy stuff on 2 or 3 wheels. Nobody gave anybody else any crap about it, so long as they rode it there. You could have a total rat bike, a high-end custom, or anything in between and you'd go and have a good time. These days it seems like everyone has a V-twin, and there were only a few rat bikes, at least that we saw. (I'm a big fan of rat bikes) The coolest rat bike was an antique Harley with an equally antique sidecar. It had Maine plates, and the sidecar was bungee corded down to a platform that was clearly designed to use to haul stuff like lumber etc. It was dented, rusty, patched and pretty obvious that the guy rode it there from Maine as opposed to trailering it like so many of the custom jobs these days. I don't know why I didn't get a picture of it. But I digress...take a look at the picture linked to at the start of this paragraph and you'll see a Honda scooter with Florida plates and a milk crate screwed to the back squeezed in with the V-twins! That's the spirit!
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