Port Dover! Friday the 13th!
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:13 am
Well, finally I went. And yes I have pics.
For those of you that don't know. Almost every biker in Ontario, including bikers in Michigan and New York. Ride to Port Dover Ontario which is on Lake Erie. Basically they shut down the small town of 5,000 people and it gets over run by bikers, basically it's a motorcycle town only! This year the weather was great and with a Friday the 13th being in June they expected a great turnout. Over 13,000 bikes and 150,000 spectators! If you drove from out of town you had to park outside in a field and a shuttle bus drove you into town! This year they actually had a Guiness world record for most bikes in a parade, or small town, not sure what it officially is but by the end of this week when everything gets official I'll let you guys know
Me and crichtonracing headed down this year and we had a great time, here are the pictures.
What would be a FZR long distance bike ride without a few electrical problems, I diagnosed that Matt's voltage regulator wasnt working and the VR was just sending AC volts to the battery which was overheating it obviously. So guess who brought an extra VR with him? haha yes I did, hooked it up and everything worked great! We were able to make it there.
Bikes started to get crowded at the side of the road so we decided to park, little did we know how far away from the main strip we were....
Here they rest...
Here we are about 5 minutes into walking towards the beach, bikes aren't that crowded at all yet.
Getting a lot more crowded now, hard to walk around with all the bikes and 150,000 plus people!
We found our older bike brother! don't see many of these around anymore!
6 cylinders....
Here is the main intersection. Bikes went both ways of this strip, all the way up the hill in the background there, plus the side streets were packed as well. Wish I had a good overhead shot of everything!
Take a close look at this picture.......yes that is a bird on the back seat....
Our first FZR spotting, pretty clean 400!
Me and my Port Dover girlfriend.....face says it all
I want this!
Cool paint job, didnt get the best shot though.
The money shot! This dude is there every time I guess, wears a different thong every time though, he is famous!
These guys came from Montreal, it's a friggen bike with a casket on the back, I sure hope they had a trailer for all this!
For those of you that don't know. Almost every biker in Ontario, including bikers in Michigan and New York. Ride to Port Dover Ontario which is on Lake Erie. Basically they shut down the small town of 5,000 people and it gets over run by bikers, basically it's a motorcycle town only! This year the weather was great and with a Friday the 13th being in June they expected a great turnout. Over 13,000 bikes and 150,000 spectators! If you drove from out of town you had to park outside in a field and a shuttle bus drove you into town! This year they actually had a Guiness world record for most bikes in a parade, or small town, not sure what it officially is but by the end of this week when everything gets official I'll let you guys know
Me and crichtonracing headed down this year and we had a great time, here are the pictures.
What would be a FZR long distance bike ride without a few electrical problems, I diagnosed that Matt's voltage regulator wasnt working and the VR was just sending AC volts to the battery which was overheating it obviously. So guess who brought an extra VR with him? haha yes I did, hooked it up and everything worked great! We were able to make it there.
Bikes started to get crowded at the side of the road so we decided to park, little did we know how far away from the main strip we were....
Here they rest...
Here we are about 5 minutes into walking towards the beach, bikes aren't that crowded at all yet.
Getting a lot more crowded now, hard to walk around with all the bikes and 150,000 plus people!
We found our older bike brother! don't see many of these around anymore!
6 cylinders....
Here is the main intersection. Bikes went both ways of this strip, all the way up the hill in the background there, plus the side streets were packed as well. Wish I had a good overhead shot of everything!
Take a close look at this picture.......yes that is a bird on the back seat....
Our first FZR spotting, pretty clean 400!
Me and my Port Dover girlfriend.....face says it all
I want this!
Cool paint job, didnt get the best shot though.
The money shot! This dude is there every time I guess, wears a different thong every time though, he is famous!
These guys came from Montreal, it's a friggen bike with a casket on the back, I sure hope they had a trailer for all this!
