Laconia Bike week 04


One of these things is not like the other, One of these things doesn't belong	Why don't I feel like I fit in?	Something you don't see every day, black bear in a cage on the highway.	Chopper with CBR XX fairing


Hot girl in chaps	Nice paint.	More nice paint.	And some more, I like flames.


Billy Lane's bike, won "Biker Build off"	Check out the exhaust/fender, it set his clothes on fire when he rode it.	Pocket chopper	Dave Perewitz Bike


Titan	Chopper trike with 280 rear tires	This has to be the most ugly thing I saw there, including all the old women I saw in revealing leather.	Nice big V8 Trike, nothing says comfortable like sitting on the tranny housing.


Girls bike...	Weirs beach	Can't beat the low slung choppers.	The Broken Spoke Saloon

Decided to show the girlfriend what bike week is like up in Laconia this year. Pulled the 929 out early on the morning of the 13th and pointed it north till we hit a sea of chrome and harleys. As you can see, it's 100 million Harleys, and about 10 sportbikes....including mine. I didn't see much to photograph, just a ton of sportsters, fatboys, and road kings....each with more chrome than the next. We walked the main strip for about an hour, till my tolerance level of harleys with straight pipes had been reached and exceeded. My god, if I hear another harley with a straight pipe it will be too soon. Lots of women in tight leather to look at, too bad 90% of them were about 45 years old....and had little to no business being in the tight leather they were wearing. Wonder how they dress at home.

Headed back a 2nd day on Tuesday for the chili cook off, walked around the funspot parking lot where alot of the chopper shops had set up tents. Before the cook off we hit the broken spoke for a beer, which was interesting. The woman behind the counter was roughly 45 years old, in a thong bathing suit and chaps. Guys at the bar had squirt guns and were shooting her in the ass every time she turned around. To her credit she has held up very well for her age, but the face gave the age away very easily. The Chili cook off was a wreck though. ONLY 5 restaurants entered, and of that only 4 were even edible. The 4 edible ones were all kind of weak in flavor. One was sweet, one was full of grease to the point it was clear and orange. And then there was the last one, it was tan....had some form of white meat in it....and tasted somewhat like I'd expect dirt to. It was flat out vile.....tan chili?! Isn't that missing a key ingredient.....like chili powder?! If I had ordered that at a restaurant (Thyme was the name of the place) and they brought that out, I would have had no problem telling them it was awful and to remove it from the bill. It was THAT bad. We didn't stick around long enough to find out who won, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't them.

Some nice choppers in the parking lot at fun spot, guess I missed the OCC guys by one day. The schedule said they packed it up on the 15th, I was down there on the 16th. Too bad, wanted to see them in person but I'm sure it would have been a mob scene of posers decked out in the latest OCC wear. Most of the choppers cost between 30k to 60k depending on maker.....to pricey for me.