Laconia's bike week is the oldest running rally, as well as one of the big three. It's an incredible event, one you won't forget.

Last year an estimated 320,000 people came during the 9 day event - that's nearly nineteen times the average population of this area. Compress that many people into an area about three square miles in size, and the result is an atmosphere in which calling it wild is a gross understatement.

Large crowds gather at the roadsides and watch the endless parade of bikes make their way to the Weirs. When the traffic backs up on Friday night, all of Saturday, and most of Sunday, the atmosphere intensifies.

All you hear is the roar of thousands of bikes and the huge crowds cheering them on. Hundreds of vendors line Lakeside avenue, parts of the boulevard, and route 3 selling every kind of food and anything and everything that can be made out of leather. It's something that everyone should experience, at least once.