Just for fun ....
Well, the Fearless Leader has moved the goalposts {always a sign of dishonesty}, cleverly deciding that attendance isn't that important anymore.
To wit: Charlie St. Clair, executive director of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association, said the festival has more competition than ever. In 1992, there were 50 other motorcycle rallies advertised around the country.
“Now there's over 800, so that cuts into stuff,” he said.
He proclaimed this year's Motorcycle Week a success, but its attendance, which is always a hard-to-estimate and unofficial number, is certainly nowhere near a peak he estimated at about 430,000 people in 2004. Attendance declined after that amid an economic downturn, he said.
His priorities include more than just attendance.
“My concern is that the businesses that do come have an excellent, safe time,” he said. “That is my No. 1 goal.”
So after losing over 100,000 attendees over the last five years, attendance is no longer the top priority. Fun and SAFETY of the BUSINESSES are what matters. Not the BIKERS who ARE the rally, but the companies who participate. #NoFriendOfOurs
Another telling {but in no way surprising} quote : "Crowds also may have seemed bigger in the past because essentially it was a three-day event", he said.
“It basically became a three-day drinking party with mainly locals and a spring break mentality,” he said.
Son of a bitch {!}, it was all AN ILLUSION

Well, fun as always, enjoy the best riding of the year {fall}, stop at Dunkin's for a couple donuts and some great Hot Apple Cider and look out for the texters texting and the heroin junkies passin' out behind the wheel as they come towards you. God Bless 'Murica, W.R.
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