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Make Way for Bike Week

By Kerry Grens on Friday, June 10, 2005.

Thousands of motorcyclists roll into Laconia this week for the 81st anniversary of Bike Week.

Festival-goers from around the country parade their custom bikes through the crowded streets of Weirs Beach.

Music, beer, and leather add to fun.

But in any three hundred thousand person crowd, there are bound to be a few bad apples.

At the local county jail enough apples make Bike Week busiest week of the year.

NHPR's Kerry Grens has more.

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