NHBAGGER
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Anyone venturing to Lake George this week?
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Last time I was at Americade was at Ruidoso,N.M. Last time at Lake George was 30 years ago. Today, its a toss up between vacationing in New York or North Korea. NK has more freedom.
Anyone venturing to Lake George this week?
Last time I was at Americade was at Ruidoso,N.M. Last time at Lake George was 30 years ago. Today, its a toss up between vacationing in New York or North Korea. NK has more freedom.
Last time I was at Americade was at Ruidoso,N.M. Last time at Lake George was 30 years ago. Today, its a toss up between vacationing in New York or North Korea. NK has more freedom.
We did Americade every year for more then 20 years. Did one day at the vendors. Nites for the bikes downtown. Looked forward to the roads up there. Thats why we went basicly. Great roads. Except in Vermont. You could tell when we went over the state line by how bad the roads got.
If you're close enough to make it a day trip, you should go. They've made it imposable to get a room for a nite or 2.
No problem getting a room this year, it is really quiet. Worse year I have seen in 15 years.
If Lake George is only a 20 mile round trip you must live on the river.[/QUOTE I live walking distance from the Hudson River. As I write this I can hear the fireworks from Americade from home .
I have not been to Lake George for some time. Use to live in Beacon, NY so, we went every year. Later, when we lived in MA, we continued to go. Then there was a bit of hassle with parking and the prices of rooms were out of this world.
When that happened, I decided to go elsewhere. Even considered going to the area when there was not a rally - but, never got back there. I am hopeful that someday these places will remember that bike riders bring quite a bit of income to the area. When they, in my opinion, overcharge, folks like me tend to have long memories.
Another example - we live in Michigan now but are originally from Virginia. Now that the kids are gone and living out of state, we were considering moving back to VA. Called a realtor, she sent us some houses to view online and then said she NEEDED an offer by Friday.
Told her I have had 9 houses and never buy without seeing. She said they go so fast, if I could not or was not willing to make an offer - she would put me on the back burner.
Guess what - house sales are slowing and she called me the other day asking if I was still interested. She now has time to work with me and also said she could get me pre-approved. I giggled and said, not ready yet - but may let her know.
We returned from Americade yesterday. The event was very disappointing. Maybe only half the vendors from say 4 or 5 years ago. No Rivco, Ultimate seats, Ciro, J&M, Kuryakyn and others including no suspension vendors, no tire vendors and more. (yeah, the chair people were there) Not a bad turnout by the manufacturers though.
Harley, Honda, Yamaha (no FJR to demo though) Indian, KTM, BMW, Zero and Triumph were all doing demos. I won't do the BMW demo though, they require a full face helmet, jacket, gloves and boots. That's their perogative but you go to Harley and it's pretty much (or has been) wear a helmet and go. I did take a Zero out for a ride, interesting but not for me. We always book the hotel way in advance so no worries about a room. Just a very low key event this year and honestly I don't think this event can survive if it continues on this trend. Did get a nice ride in around Sacandanga on Friday and some nice surrounding roads. I wish the organizers the best but some of the vendors told me the organizers keep going up on their fees, maybe Dutcher wants to rethink this.
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