Friday The 13th Port Dover

sburns said:
Where are you getting that from?
I take it you are on your way there now..
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Nope taking the motorhome out this weekend,

Been there many times and have never yet complained about it. Not like others here.
 
Wingboy said:
Definitely not a hater. (and i don't think there are many "haters" on here) I have had a lot of good times in Dover. But they were all when there wasn't 200,000 gawkers on Main Street.
Here's my contribution. Show me your Elaina t-shirt.
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I took my Nighthawk. Weather was cold but clear. There were a few really dodgy spots about 15 minutes out from PD that had blowing snow/ice and a crosswind. I'd start on the right edge, and blow across to the left edge of the pavement. Thankfully the sections weren't too long so I could use a patch of clear pavement to get back to the right.
 
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Gary said:
Coming home about 2pm, I saw too many riders & bikes down.
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Much like I experienced at Sturgis, there are a lot of new / low experience riders that feel that it’s some sort of Mecca that they must go to, but don’t ask themselves if they have the skills to do so safely unfortunately.

I watched a guy at Sturgis drop his bike 3 times coming into and out of a gas station across from our campground. And tons of other clear demonstrations of “I just bought my first bike, trailered it here, and barely know how to ride it”.

There’s also the alcohol factor unfortunately at events like this.
 
Lots of other things to worry about,

One thing I’ve learned is not to try to live someone else’s life
 
I went for the first time this year. A group of buddies rent a house for the weekend. Arrived Thursday afternoon, hit the strip that evening. I'm 58 and I was by far one of the youngest there on Thursday night. I got the sense that a lot of people were meeting up with their friends, etc. Bands were okay and crowd was thin on Thursday night. Friday was a ton of people and bikes. Crowd was noticeably younger on Friday. Interesting to be there and now I can say I've been there, done that, but I skipped the $40 T-shirt. I have enough clothes already.
 
Anyone camped over in Dover? They a have a good sized area.
Is it a sedate nights sleep or more like Ride for Sight and burn outs into the wee hours.
 
daboys_19 said:
I went for the first time this year. A group of buddies rent a house for the weekend. Arrived Thursday afternoon, hit the strip that evening. I'm 58 and I was by far one of the youngest there on Thursday night. I got the sense that a lot of people were meeting up with their friends, etc. Bands were okay and crowd was thin on Thursday night. Friday was a ton of people and bikes. Crowd was noticeably younger on Friday. Interesting to be there and now I can say I've been there, done that, but I skipped the $40 T-shirt. I have enough clothes already.
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We did the same thing the one time I went. Rented a house in Niagara arriving the Thursday, did the PD13 thing the next day, then spent the rest of the weekend doing Niagara stuff and crossed the border for a fun ride on the other side of the border. PD13 was the least memorable thing that weekend.
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