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02-27-2006, 06:29 PM | #1 |
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A Brief History of "BIKE WEEK"
Photo from the Laconia Motorcycle Week website. Follow the link below for a ..... BRIEF HISTORY of BIKE WEEK old mcdude postcard from the 1950s. click for HISTORIC LACONIA BIKE WEEK PHOTOS (like the one seen below....a nice gallery) Photo by Rattlesnake Gal - 2004 |
02-28-2006, 10:22 AM | #2 |
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Ah, thanks mcdude, this is one of my favorite topics and one of my reasons for living at the Weirs, even though I dont ride.
I grew up spending a lot of time at my grandparents house at the Weirs (where I now live with my wife and kids, hence "Weirs Guy"). Fritzie Baer lived in the next house down the street. I can remember watching him when I was a kid tending to his garden, which next to his family and motorcycles was his passion. I never knew how instrumental he was in organizing bike week, and wish I'd had the chance to talk with him about it. When the 75th motorcycle week rally was dedicated in part to him I started organizing tours of bikers down the hill to see Fritzie’s garden. I think I charged a beer a tour, but that was an awful fuzzy weekend. The gardens still there, but sadly his daughter sold the house last year. Now the secrets all mine and my families, but for a beer a tour I’ll be glad to show any of you around this year!
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02-28-2006, 06:16 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, thanks McDude! Biking is my other favorite pass time, and I'm itching to ride again. It won't be long, just another 4 or 5 weks until I pull the ole' superglide out of the basement!
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02-28-2006, 06:39 PM | #4 |
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Thanks McDude.....
That's just plain "cool"....
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03-01-2006, 02:11 PM | #5 |
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A few weeks ago, we went to the movies at a theater in Clinton MA. Before the movie starts, they run one of those question and answer, "did-you-know?" type games to pass the time. All the questions were about local Clinton history.
One of the questions referred to the origin of the Laconia motorcycle rally. I remember being surprised and wondering why this was in a q&a about Clinton...until the answer showed that Mr. Baer was born there. More info here, http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/hall...page.asp?id=14 |
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03-01-2006, 02:57 PM | #6 |
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Great webpage, thanks Merrymeeting! He died when I was 9 or 10, so I never knew how big a supporter of all things bikeweek he was. I'll have to visit his garden tonight and tell him he's got a webpage all his own!
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03-02-2006, 11:16 AM | #7 |
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Bike Week History
Thanks for the post, McDude. You wouldn't happen to know where I could find an article on the incident at the Weirs in the early 60's between the police and a group of Hell's Angels from California? My recollection is that the NH National Guard ended up becoming involved.
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History of Bike Week
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05-15-2008, 12:13 PM | #9 |
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Thanks McDude.Looks interesting.I'll be buying that book.
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From the Concord Monitor
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Arcadia Publishing Co. photo A rider from the 1940s competes in a Bike Week hill climb at Weirs Beach. |
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