Friday the 13th

Nope, nothing to do with superstition.... here is a link to the town I live in.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/main-street-port-dover

Every Friday 13th , thousands of bikes decend on the town.... this being middle of summer, nice weather and the 50th anniversary.... this one is a biggie.

The webcam is positioned badly and really does not reflect how many people and bikes are here, the cam is the centre of town but the majority of people are nearer the bottom end (which you can't see).

It's loud man, thousands of bikes and not 1 muffler in sight lol

http://www.pd13.com/

The official website.

It's all cool and everything but sleeping from Wednesday night to Sunday is pretty much a no go, also no cars are allowed into town from the town borders, so when I come home from work tonight I will have to argue with the cops to let me home, yes they are supposed to give us residents passes, but I didn't get one lol

Anyway, just thought I'd share.

 

That's pretty damn cool, thanks for that

 

Where is that Ned? You in the US or overseas?

 

Ew. IP.B

That's pretty cool 8)

 

Nice one Ned. Like watching a good streaming vid. You're right about the angle, but it cool all the same.
Cheers..

 

Our biggest local computer/electrical/bedding store had a Friday 13th sale with most stuff 13-40% off except Apple (fixed pricing, of course).

I purchased a copy of Nero 8 (out of date I know) after a tech advised me that it will definitely run on W7 (just use the defaults) that originally sold for around $200 for $40 and an "Introductory Computer Home bundle" for a laptop of $22, marked $49. Additional keyboard, mouse,external speakers, etc. I don't expect too much quality for the price but worth a try for a relative who is hard on anything electrical.

Bazza

 

@Ned, yes, I saw a clip of it on CTV news. Pretty amazing.... and noisy I guess.

 

roflmao roflmao.. that's the funniest thing I've heard all night..

I can just imagine you with your umbrella LOL
http://www.fencingforum.com/forum/images/smilies/swordchop.gif

 

roflmaoroflmaoroflmao

That made me laugh so hard I almost snorted my Friday night drink all over my keyboard! Fortunately my laptop-preserving reflexes are too awesome to allow that to happen. :major

Where did you get that smiley!?! I need that smiley! I must have it!!! :drool

 

Well it's been a large one, not that I've seen any of it apart from around my street and the floods of bikes comming in. But the radio said Police count at 1:30pm was upwards of 150,000 people, so I'm guessing since the stream has been steady that it probably past 200,000 people and I'm guessing in excess of 50,000 bikes.

@abz1nthe.... PD is on the north shore of Lake Eire, southern Ontario, Canada.

I know my OP may have sounded grumpy, it is a spectacular event, but when you live here it really makes life hard work, sleep tonight will pretty much be a no go lol
But the event is well handled, often big name stars show up, not sure who this year but in the 5 years I've been here I've seen Jessie James (obviously lol) , Dan Akroyd sang in the street band a couple of years ago too.

Also some of the bikes are off the chart, neon lights across the engines, full customs, rare Harleys etc etc.
The cash injection into the town is phenominal and so far as far as I know it's all gone very well.

Oh and as I type someone a block down has just donut burnt out his rear tire lol, that smells nice :-D

 

You should have been like SURE..*stab in the eye* (or what ever place you prefer LOL)


@ Mimsy


This is where I found it.. http://www.fencingforum.com/forum/images/smilies/swordchop.gif

 

From Way Off Base, today, at www.majorgeeks.com
Lightning strikes 13-year-old boy at 13:13 on Friday the 13th
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...iday-13th.html

Bazza

 

It's here again, I forgot until yesterday :-D

It's loud and busy, link to webstream....

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/main-street-port-dover

I guess I'll have to take a different route to work lol

Like I said in this thread last time, it is spectacular but there's that handful of inconsiderate pricks who give the whole thing a bad name and are the main reason the locals don't look forward to the event.
Example:... Last year a friend of mine who lives right in town would not let some bikers park on her property so they pissed on her flowers and detroyed her lawn by dohnutting across it, Last night at 2:30AM about a block down from me someone thought it would be fun to start his bike and just hold the throttle open at around 5k revs.

It's these idiots who ruin the reputation of the event.

Other than that it's just noisy and a pain, but lots of people have fun, I'm really looking forward to comming home tonight and arguing with the cops about letting me drive to my house, it's funny really, I live about 3 blocks from the roadblock and before you actually get into town and they tell me I can't go any further by car. This doesn't help the event either, just because a shedload of bikers turn up aparently means those of us who live here are not allowed to drive our cars.

Rant over.

Can you tell I didn't get much sleep last night? :-D

 

Ned, does this happen every Friday 13th? I know you guys get winter.

 

I got delicious cake twice today, so it can't be all that bad.

 

Dealt with this today @ work.

-> http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8129227

All tracks closed. Trains you see, is what I run for a living on that line.

 

There's always a gathering on F13th, but as you say we do get harsh winters so any that fall in the bad weather period are usually just the hardcore guys and a handful of people drive in by car, mainly just the spring,summer,autum dates get the beer tents and bands etc.

Yesterday actually didn't get as busy as I thought it would, but I guess when it's not actually in the summer those who live hundreds of miles away don't want to make the trip incase the weather turns, at least in summer even if it rains it will still be hot, May is a funny month, in the last 6 years I've seen 40C in May but I've also seen snow lol

 

I actually turned into a gay man in a tacky sweater for Friday the 13th...

I'm back to normal for now.


Smoke me a kipper....

 

Isn't there some young jedi knight you should be corrupting right about now?

 

alright enough of the gay stuff yeah?

 

One knight, he was thinking about corrupting a young lass. A knight in shining armor came upon them. His steel sword stopped the corruption. Her corruption was safe -> for now. His nickname is now stubby. I couldn't resist a reply.

 

Tim and motc7, Your a hoot! Made me smile.

 

More that it's old. Can we agree to change it to something neutral for now, and then if something comes up that's funny and fresh, you can change it?

 

The thought of you thinking of me while on the can is disturbing.

 

Oooh no, don't do that? Now it's just getting really very, very funny!! How the thread is progressing has me in stitches. roflmao

 

This was originally a post of motorcycles meeting in a town on Friday the 13th. Keeping with the theme.

He met a girl riding his motorcycle in the park the one evening.
There was an instant spark between them when they locked eyes. She immediately dropped to her knees and laid on the grass at his feet.


As they lay making love, he thought "These taser guns are well worth the money".

 

if this conversation even heads towards you starching your socks, I'm out of here.