Motorcycle Scenes from Weirs Beach NH Jun 2003

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Laconia Bike Week is a huge annual June motorycle event in central New Hampshire that includes races at the New Hampshire International Speedway. Bikers from all over the country converge on the area for a week of fun and festivities much like Daytona Bike Week only the hills and curves of central New Hampshire are much more fun to ride on than the flat straight Florida highways. Weirs Beach is a little tourist town on huge Lake Winnipesaukee. It is on Route 3 at the bottom of a hill when heading south where a bridge crosses the inlet to Paugus Bay which stretches many miles towards Laconia. There is a drive-in theater right there that is taken over as a huge vendor area. And the main street along the lake called Lakeside Avenue has a boardwalk and piers along it. This is where bikers like to cruise up and down and park their bikes much like Main Street Daytona. During certain periods all car traffic is kept off that stretch of Route 3 and Lakeside Avenue and bike riders rule. Be prepared for lots of traffic delays and expensive car parking ($20) when trying to drive an auto to this area.

We visited Sunday morning on June 15 which was the end of Bike Week. The weather was warm and hazy. We had to park a half mile away from Lakeside Avenue and walk the rest of the way. That is about as close as you can get an automobile. There was no shortage of bikers and the crowd was still growing when we left around noon.

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