Chris-CJ
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Anyone going?
Will be great to hear of your experience and a link to pics will be nice!
Will be great to hear of your experience and a link to pics will be nice!
35 years ? Wow ..that's longer than I've been aliveI have been riding 35 years and never heard of it until 5 years ago. Strange thing was, I was in North Carolina doing that Tail of the Dragon thing and some Floridian's I was talking to said ya, we know where London is, we pass it on the way to Dover. Have since been a few times, but probably still have no concept of the PD 13 experience. A couple hours in that size crowd, I end up running for the border. Always amazed at how many people I run into during that short a time that I know or work with. Got talked into taking the day off to ride with a couple friends that wanted to go to the Move Over Dover event in Ipperwash. Plan was to meet in Dover then check out the Ipperwash event afterwards. They seem to be worrying about the weather so will by flying by the seat of my pants as usual tomorrow. Took the day off so, minimum, will be in Dover tomorrow morning.... bloody hell where does the time go, guess that should be, This morning.
I was there today...I typically go to every one. Well, with the exception of 1995 through 2013, but hey, life got in the way.
It's more about the excuse to ride somewhere more than anything else now honestly. Left the east side at 4:30A (to get through Toronto before traffic) with a few likeminded friends, had buffet breakfast at the Erie beach, and then wandered through town.
Had a 30 minute conversation with the owner of an '08 Star Venture - learned lots of stuff about what may very well be my next bike. Saw lots of other interesting and unique bikes, trikes...classics, crotch rockets....etc. Saw a really cool trailer setup that I may try to duplicate for my own needs in the future.
That's what it's about more than anything for me...checking out the stuff you don't see everyday, thousands of lookalike Harleys aside.
Ultimately, it's a ride. A destination.
All the "Dover is over" BS is exactly what I expected - bunk. There were tens of thousands of people there at 11:30A when I left (bike parking was already backing up to quite some distance from main street) and we passed probably 1500+ bikes on Highway 6 headed into town...and it wasn't even lunch hour yet.
Got damp on the way home...but meh, if you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
I went once. In February 2004. During the ride in, I saw maybe a half dozen bikes. In town, maybe 100 more. Butt pirates, frig me, thousands of leather clad pirates and parking lots full of Toyota Camrys. The amount of posing was ridiculous. If you are going to wear riding gear, you better be out for a ride or you just look like an idiot. Not my scene. Never went back.
Been a while since I've been, went this afternoon. Disappointed that they blocked off most of Main St to bikes, used to be able to park along the whole street as long as there was space.
had to read that twice
still doesn't sound like my scene
Went once a couple of decades ago. I imagine it's not much different from what I see on the news, etc. Would rather spend the day riding.
They've changed things here and there over the last few years - last year main street was side parking only (no middle parking like years past), this year it was different again with the lower half of Main St setup as vendor only. The parkette that used to be vendors was now parking for a TON of bikes instead. The main park area had far fewer vendors because most were now on main street.
I agree that having bikes on main street vs the blocked off vendor area would be nicer, but I'm guessing there must have been some reason in the end....maybe the grass was being torn up too much in the park? Who knows.
Because they are.Television coverage didn't help much,
made everybody and their bikes look so old!