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The next time you are at your local car dealership, ask them how many cars they sell that week or how much business their service departments receive. Same goes for all the marinas. Downtown Laconia businesses want to bring more of bike week downtown because they suffer such a loss while it is here.

Very few local people profit from bike week. The profiteers will boast loudly about the tremendous economic surge for the entire area. The rest realize it's a lie but don't want to stick their faces in front of a newspaper or television camera and risk saying the event stinks. No sense in taking any chances.