Anyone here not feel guilty about missing Bike Week?
#32
08-05-2007 | 05:11 PM
RE: Anyone here not feel guilty about missing Bike Week?
I have been to Daytona, Sturgis, Myrtle Beach and even to Little Sturgis in Kentucky. Out of all those rallies the best IMO was Myrtle Beach. Beautiful scenery, spread out and not in one central location.
Sturgis is a beautiful area and many places to see but the congestion is awful and not for me.
Sturgis is a beautiful area and many places to see but the congestion is awful and not for me.
#33
08-05-2007 | 07:05 PM
RE: Anyone here not feel guilty about missing Bike Week?
I've done the last few bike weeks and biketoberfests since I live just across the state from Daytona. But I'm not planning on Biketoberfest this year, and I don't feel guilty at all. Same huge crowds, seems like the same vendors in the exact same spots, bike overheating in traffic. It's good to go at least once, but now I'd like to go to one of the others somewhere else. But from the way it sounds, it looks like they're all pretty much the same. I think the time off would be better spent going down the road instead of crawling in traffic.
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08-17-2009 | 02:14 AM
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we just got back from sturgis had agood time, but we were ready to come home.it rained and hailed a lot. every thing is getting so high priced the average joe like myself cant hardley aford it but the brotherhood of the bikers is unbeatable.i have met more frendly and helpful people there than any other place ihave been.we are headig to hawgstock this weekend and am hoping that the smaller crowds will make things a little slower pace.
#36
08-17-2009 | 03:31 AM
Daytona is close for me. 3 hour ride with camping gear strapped to my Ultra. I set up in a half hour and then take off to see the sites. Have to get to Main street early (before 9 AM) to park on it. Couple of hours of that is all I can stand. Then to the raceway for the sights. Back to the camp at the Cabbage Patch. Do the Bands and the sights at the Cabbage Patch then back to camp. Next day I usually do Destiination Daytona and the Iron Horse. I usually stay 3 to 4 nights if camping. Cost is $10 a night and always something going on at the Cabbage Patch, day or night. It is my get away and I usually meet some great people and have a great time. You can stay away from traffic by taking 95 and Hwy 1 North and South and back streets East and West. Ride safe
#37
08-17-2009 | 04:37 AM
Not sure what provoked this question....maybe it's because thus far this weekend I have riden all over tarnation and back and have had a hell of a great time doing so.....maybe because of the thousands of times I've been asked, after someone finds out I ride, "so, are you going to bike week?" and my response is most all the time "uh, no". Not for any deliberate avoidance or because I have something wrong with bike weeks, but 1. all the bke weeks fall into my busy season (my business is very seasonal) and 2. I love having my bike to ride it, not trailer it half way across country or ride it 90 mph 2000 miles to sit and get drunk, drool over everyone else's 35,000 custom bike or to watch Paul Sr. and faimily give autographs.....of course many of the girls are gorgeous and there are some cool people there, but all in all, I don't feel guiltyor cheated at all if I don't make it to bike week. Is this strange?
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02-07-2010 | 12:53 AM
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How to open a business during the rally
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