Americade
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RE: Americade
ORIGINAL: Beancount1
Have gone every year for the last 10 or so years. All the manufacturers and major vendors are there. Most of the manufacturers offer demo rides, including HD. If you want to ride an HD, you stand in line and wait for a demo rider to return, you jump on and off you go by yourself, following the designated route set up by HD. Many of the vendors have installation available right there. 10 to 15 design and paint vendors. Lots of great speakers, MC related classes, cruises, tours through the adirondecks, etc. And best of all, the 1 percenters stay home.
Have gone every year for the last 10 or so years. All the manufacturers and major vendors are there. Most of the manufacturers offer demo rides, including HD. If you want to ride an HD, you stand in line and wait for a demo rider to return, you jump on and off you go by yourself, following the designated route set up by HD. Many of the vendors have installation available right there. 10 to 15 design and paint vendors. Lots of great speakers, MC related classes, cruises, tours through the adirondecks, etc. And best of all, the 1 percenters stay home.
Tourer
Joined: May 2007
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From: Western MA
RE: Americade
ORIGINAL: kstew74
Ken - I take exception to your 1 percenters comment. Respect for both ends of the biker community goes a long way.
ORIGINAL: Beancount1
Have gone every year for the last 10 or so years. All the manufacturers and major vendors are there. Most of the manufacturers offer demo rides, including HD. If you want to ride an HD, you stand in line and wait for a demo rider to return, you jump on and off you go by yourself, following the designated route set up by HD. Many of the vendors have installation available right there. 10 to 15 design and paint vendors. Lots of great speakers, MC related classes, cruises, tours through the adirondecks, etc. And best of all, the 1 percenters stay home.
Have gone every year for the last 10 or so years. All the manufacturers and major vendors are there. Most of the manufacturers offer demo rides, including HD. If you want to ride an HD, you stand in line and wait for a demo rider to return, you jump on and off you go by yourself, following the designated route set up by HD. Many of the vendors have installation available right there. 10 to 15 design and paint vendors. Lots of great speakers, MC related classes, cruises, tours through the adirondecks, etc. And best of all, the 1 percenters stay home.
Keith - That’s OK. Just my opinion that the event is generally tamer than some of the more notable rally’s partly due to the fact that the criminal element is absent.
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From: Ashby, Ma
RE: Americade
It's great riding.. spend your time all day out on the roads, north, south, east and west of Lake George. Especially west, out to Lake Placcid.
Two problems, housing is a rip-off and it rains a lot first week in June. Usually like everyday.
One thing you can do to solve the housing issue, is stay in Vermont over in the Rutland area.. or one of the many B&Bs that are usually busy during ski season, but slower, cheaper and nicer than the expensive hotel/motel scene in Lake George. Lake Placcid has a lot of motel rooms too and is about an hour west of LG.
Make sure you do RT 17 into Vermont over to Rt100. Rt17 goes up and over a mountain and it's a favorite of the sportbike crowd, there's a place to stop at the top and take pictures of the wild crotch-rockets and some HD riders blasting through the twisties.
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From: lancaster, pa
RE: Americade
I second the HD rendezvous if theres a choice between the two, It was some years back but I will never forgot. Americade never went, thought it was a wing event,,something?
Road Captain
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: AZ
RE: Americade
I live about 20-25 minutes south of LG in Saratoga. I have been going to Ameicade since '01 and liked it. This past summer I went to Laconia for the first time and will not waste my vacation time on Americade again. Laconia I feel is way better than Americade, per my perspective. During riding season I ride in the Adirondacks every weekend, which I feel is one of the most beautiful places in the country to ride. So the week of Americade if you want to ride on some beautiful roads that is the place to do it. If you like the more Harley crowd, and roads and scenery arejust as beautiful as LG than go to Laconia. Over the last few years all of my friends had gone to Laconia and enjoyed it. I for one had heard and thought that Laconia was nothing but trouble and biker brawls. Honestly, I did see some motorcycle "gangs" walking around, but they did not bother anyone. All of the vendors are geared towards HD, and are free, while most of the vendors at LG are geared for metric, and you have to pay to enter. My friends and I stayed about 12 miles out of town in Alton Bay and had a great time. Like I said the roads are magnificent. I recommend Laconia over Americade.
RE: Americade
iF UVE NEVERBEEN THERE U OUTTA TRY IT 4 URSELF.. ULL HAVE A GREAT TIME IM SURE.. THIS EVENT IS MORE FOR THE TOURING RIDER. LOTSA VENDORS OF ALL TYPES AND BRANDS.. HD INCLUDED. DEMO TOUR TOO.. RIDING IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT AT AMERICADE. IM GOING FORTHE PAST 20 YEARS . RIDE UP TO BURLINGTON VT.. TAKE THE FERRY BACK TO NY VIA LK CHAMPLAINE.. RIDE RT 73 TOWARD LAKE PLACID SPECTACULAR VIEWS . ALL DAY TRIPS.. RIDE TO FT TICONDEROGAANDRT 100 THRU VERMONT TO MAD RIVER GLEN... REALLY NICE.RT 17 VT VERY NICE RUN.. LIKE OTHERS HERE HAVE SAID..THIS IS A CALMER - OLDERTYPE EVENT BUT ALWAYS NICE.. JUST DO IT!
Cruiser
Joined: Nov 2005
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RE: Americade
In 2003 my daughter and I rode from Nebraska to Americade. We had a great time. She was 13 at the time...the rally was very appropriate for families. I would recommend it. I wish it were closer (its about 1650 miles - one way).
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