<--------- This guy :thumbup:thumbup
To the people that are going, I salute you! If I am riding, I will probably hit something down south, like catskill (opposite direction of ground zero).
I wish you are not the lucky few (hundred) who gets “invited” by the NYSP for a VIP visit to one of their many “Rider Education and Awareness Stations” for a free consultation and interview.
rofl:rofl:rofl
Stay safe, (try to) have fun!
I will be there and then my camp
Americade is the only thing that can make LG village even more redneck than usual.
clark, dont forget the adirondack nationals
I stand corrected.
Yea you were going for more white trash then redneck for Americades my friend
i wish i could go 
going sat night
will be there provoking shenanigans
GL with that. It seems every year more rubs show up and wont do anything “fun” anyway.
Not to mention, I watched atleast 10 riders get tickets durring the 2 hours I spent there last time I went.
Man i remember 5 years ago seeing boobies, burnouts and all kinds of good shit. No fights, shootings, stabbings, accidents… just good times had by all. NYS is fist fucking the fun out of these events one year at a time.
If I do go this year it will most likely be in the Z rather than on bike, seems every year on bike its mostly just sitting in 90 degree heat not moving in traffic for an hour at a time.
I’m not going!
Word hoping to have the new whip to provoke nonsense
its this weekend?
It starts this Monday and goes til next Sunday
As the title says, its the 7th through the 12th.
There is a high chance that Americade will not be in NY next year.
LAKE GEORGE – The state plans to charge Americade $71,300 to use the Million Dollar Beach parking lot for next month’s event, and has notified the rally’s organizers that the tab will go up another $15,000 next year.
Americade founder Bill Dutcher told Warren County supervisors Friday that he has had offers from other communities to host the event. Two weeks before his event begins, he cannot say whether it will return to Lake George next year.
After he made that statement, Dutcher was approached in a hallway by Salim Amersi, owner of The Surfside resort in Lake George, who told him he would pay the extra permit costs for the event to keep it in Lake George.
Dutcher said he was “touched” by the offer.
Amersi said later that Americade’s economic benefits for the region seem to be underestimated. He said he employs 20 to 25 people for the week that would otherwise not work that week.
“I feel there are a lot of businesses that would contribute to keep them here,” he said of Americade.
Dutcher gave supervisors an update on his negotiations with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, saying the agency initially sought $165,000 for a permit to use the Beach Road parking area, then lowered the demand to $104,000, then to $90,000 and eventually settled on $71,300, which Dutcher said he plans to pay. Last year, the tab was $52,000, he said.
Dutcher said the DEC told him it costs $30,000 for the agency’s Division of Law Enforcement to staff an entrance and crosswalk at the parking area during the event.
When Dutcher said he told the agency that the Warren County Sheriff’s Office could provide staff for less, the DEC told him he had to use its staff, even though the contract requires that Americade provide security.
“They have proven themselves to contradict themselves regularly,” he said.
He said the DEC has also indicated it plans to raise the price for motorcycles to go up the Prospect Mountain Highway by $4 during Americade.
David Winchell, a spokesman for the DEC, said Americaders had not been charged in the past, but Americade paid for them. This year, Americaders will have to pay for themselves, he said.
The price for others using the highway will not change, he said.
Dutcher said he is exploring his options for 2011.
“It gets to the point where the devil you know is worse than the devil you don’t know,” he said.
(The Rutland, Vt., Herald newspaper late last month reported that Killington, Vt.'s new director of economic development met recently with Americade organizers. The economic development director would not comment to the paper about the discussion.)
County leaders have also offered to host the event at the former Gaslight Village property next year.
Warren County supervisors passed a resolution in support of Americade’s attempt to keep the permit cost down.
“We are looking at a potential catastrophic event if we lose Americade,” Glens Falls 5th Ward Supervisor William Kenny said.
“We need to save this event,” Johnsburg Supervisor Sterling Goodspeed said.
Numerous state and local officials have already lobbied the DEC to no avail, they pointed out.
Goodspeed suggested that Americade hold its annual motorcycle parade on the steps of the state Capitol this year.
Chester Supervisor Fred Monroe, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, criticized the state’s actions with Americade and its decisions to close parks, campgrounds and wilderness roads.
“It’s short-sighted to destroy the tourism industry to save a few dollars,” he said.
Dutcher said the DEC told him it costs $30,000 for the agency’s Division of Law Enforcement to staff an entrance and crosswalk at the parking area during the event.
Even if they staffed that 24/7, thats 168 hours.
1 person on at a time: thats $178.57 an hour.
2 persons on at a time: thats $89.28 an hour.
4 persons on at a time: thats $44.64 an hour.
8 persons on at a time: thats $22.32 an hour.
If it were only staffed for 12 hours a day.
1 person on at a time: thats $357.14 an hour.
2 persons on at a time: thats $178.57 an hour.
4 persons on at a time: thats $89.28 an hour.
8 persons on at a time: thats $44.64 an hour.
Think about those figures when you walk past there this week. I doubt they will have more than 2-3 people on staff there. That will be a good example to how much money the state launders from their customers, OR how crazy they pay their staff. it can only be one or the other.
Lake george is what it is, and MANY people who I know that live there say it is mostly becasue of the BIG events held there durring the season.
remove the events, and remove the community. simple as that.
im not going either… fuck it !