Reply With Quotethought you were gonna be at mead last weekend anyway sir??
didn't miss much, weather was TERRIBLE
I was there (LHC) last weekend and the city had a nice big banner made for the Bridge City Bike Rally. I was in town, unaware in advance of the rally, with my boat to enjoy the weekend with my wife and my 5 month old baby. Some friends came with us in their boat as well.
Now before I go any further, I love custom bikes and Harley's. I am friends with a custom bike builder and have been to many functions for bikers, supporting those who ride. I sponsor activites at Daytona Bike week every year.
The bikes were loud as HELL in town and at all hours of the night. Boats are loud during the daylight, but the bikes ran all night long.
The boaters are the a-holes messing up the town.... Well I disagree. As we were walking from our hotel to the docks below London Bridge, where I left the boat after launching, a group of bikers came down that small street just before you walk down the hill (between LBR and Queen's Bay) near rear driveway of LBR. I was pushing the baby stroller with my daughter in the stroller(5 months old). Also with us was our friends, 2 adults in their mid 20's with 3 kids, one of which is 6 months old and another in a walker, when a group pulled up and drove by, 2 of the bikers pulled in the clutch and hit the gas just as they were passing my child in her stroller.
:burningm:One more thing, I was walking on the right side of the street because another loud bike had set off an alarm to a vehicle parked on the left side of the street. I didn't want to push a stroller pass a siren around the same height level of her ears.
I haven't been that pissed in a long time. Here the city is welcoming the LOUD bikes with open arms, banners 'n all, and these people rev a bike up next to a effin stroller!!!! :angry2: Every time I start my boat, and it is loud, I warn the people behind. Some have asked to wait until they move and I comply.
Screw LHC and the terrible politicians that run the town!
thought you were gonna be at mead last weekend anyway sir??
didn't miss much, weather was TERRIBLE
thought you were gonna be at mead last weekend anyway sir??
didn't miss much, weather was TERRIBLE
I was going to meet my brother out there with his boat as well. He sold the Freightliner and the Cowboy Cadillac won't be there until Feb-March. He had nothing to pull his boat to the lake with, so we went to Havasu instead.
Well that reminds me of the weekend when the Bikers gathered up in Laughlin for their annual thingy. Never have I seen so many LEO's out and about because of the overflow of bikers to LHC...not to mention the ill timed Triathalon the same weekend.
But as you said, these bikes were all over town with their straight pipes with no respect for other people. I'm driving along the 95 with window open and get blasted in the ear with Harley revs, tried to rev him back but my Diesel just didn't cut it.
If only the city would enforce equally and fairly to all, then we'd have no gripe. :messedup:
If only the city would enforce equally and fairly to all, then we'd have no gripe. :messedup:[/QUOTE]
To me it goes further than that. The city obiviuosly welcomes these events, so why are they making rules that may damage the outcome to to event. The city would not help these events if it did not see something in it for the city. 200 boats is more revenure than 400 bikes.
We all know now-a-days all these yuppies buy bikes and suddenly think they are some type of rebel and they are tuff :hammer2:
I was at a state camp ground a few years ago. A huge group of bikers showed up. They set up camp across from are site..... :cry:
Those guys were the greatest bunch I ever met. After nine PM they pushed the bikes a 1/4 mile up the road before starting them... :idea:
I was at a state camp ground a few years ago. A huge group of bikers showed up. They set up camp across from are site..... :cry:
Those guys were the greatest bunch I ever met. After nine PM they pushed the bikes a 1/4 mile up the road before starting them... :idea:
Those bikers you dealt with have the same courtesy that I do. There are "jerks" in both groups, but nothing is being done to loud bikes. I'm not here trying to have the same rules come down on bikes. I would like to have the city realize that they should be after bikes the same as they are on boats. And in that realization, come to find how much they would hurt the city financially if they did made those decisions to persecute loud bikes and boats.
I don't understand the love affair with the "Harley". I mean, it seems like they are not subject to the same laws everyone else and everthing else is.
Case in point. I HAVE gotten a ticket for a hot rod truck that in the opinion of the officer was "too loud" !!!!
Also, I HAVE gotten a ticket on a "sport bike" that was "too loud". While I was getting the ticket dozens of Harley's were screaming by twice as loud as I ever was. You know the scene up at the ROck Store. I've been doing that ride for years and have never heard or seen a "harley" getting messed with by the law......
mirvin :jawdrop:
MIRVIN
Sounds like you got caught in the chppie stings they due up there
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