Bike Week seeks beer tents
Bikers cruise to Weirs Beach for Laconia Motorcycle Week in this 2008 photo. AP file
In this photo taken Thursday, June 6, 2013 in Laconia, N.H. venders set up at Weirs Beach getting ready for the thousands of motorcyclists who will visit the area for Bike Week starting this weekend. The 90th year of the annual event has mellowed from the riots, raunch and public drinking of decades past to a family affair. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) Jim Cole
Laconia is being urged to allow beer tents during Motorcycle Week this year.
Charlie St. Clair, executive director of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association, made the pitch to hold the special refreshment pavilions during the nine-day event.