Time to muster the troops again....

[Pat Young]

I'll mobilize the 8,100 members strong of The Immigrants' Civil War facebook community!

 

[cash]

Ban motorcycles from the battlefield altogether. That's ridiculous! Bike week in Gettysburgh is over the top I agree and I've never attended. Ban bikes in the park? Rediculous.

Electric powered motorcycles would be fine. I can't count the times I've been on the battlefield contemplating some aspect of the battle only to have the experience ruined by some motorcycle passing by. They add nothing and detract much.

 

[cash]

I think we could have motorcycle riders park at the Visitor's Center and then take bicycles to tour the park. There's a bunch of them who could use the exercise.

 

[War Horse]

I think we could have motorcycle riders park at the Visitor's Center and then take bicycles to tour the park. There's a bunch of them who could use the exercise.

Can we put playing cards in our spokes?

 

[cash]

Can we put playing cards in our spokes?

I'll have to test the decibel level first.

 

[Legion Para]

David LeVan is a capitalist and realist. For him it is all about numbers.

-Gettysburg National Military Park 1.2 million tourists per year.
-Adams County 3.4 million tourists per year.

I can understand Harley Week in Milwaukee, the home of Harley.
I can understand Harley Week in Daytona.
I can understand Sturgis.

I can even go along with a Harley ralley in Adams County, but No Motorcycles in Gettysburg.

 

[Irishtom29]

Bike Week Gettysburg? I don't mind the casino but this motorbike thing is beyond the pale. Especially the pelletheads with loud pipes, poor fellas never got past the baseball card in the bicycle spokes stage of life. These guys also often exhibit the Baby Boomer combover--a bald guy with a ponytail. Many take on the trappings of outlaw bikers while denying being anti social, thus guys with "colors" that say "bikers for Jesus" instead of Outlaws or Hells Angels. Odd.

In St. Augustine we got the backwash from these jaspers during Daytona bike week.

 

[thomas aagaard]

Iam ready to donate a few $ or write an email to any relevant politicians... telling them about why I have traveled to Gettysburg from Denmark... and why this will make it less likely that I do it again.

 

[Bee]

Especially the pelletheads with loud pipes, poor fellas never got past the baseball card in the bicycle spokes stage of life. These guys also often exhibit the Baby Boomer combover--a bald guy with a ponytail.

Okay, okay: I can see a discussion somewhere, sometime about all the things that annoy us (trust me, in the Hive, passing muster is pretty difficult) but I hate to see this thread turn sideways, and the very important message lost that is the OP. As an aside, our local veteran's motorbike club does a bang-up job of collecting Toys for Tots on their Christmas ride -- I send my neighbor out every year with teddy bears strapped to his bike. OOOOOrah!!

We don't need a stinkin' casino cluttering up the joint.

 

[nitrofd]

Has anyone heard anything from the Civil War Trust yet as I guess they will be in the forefront on this issuse.

 

[RobertP]

I've never been in a casino but there are four at Vicksburg and I haven't heard anyone on this site complain that it ruined their experience.

As for bikes, nothing against them as I used one for transportation in college. But there used to be a muffler/noise law that would have curbed all the Easy Rider posers on the roads today. Seriously, what happened to those ordinances?

 

[FarawayFriend]

Ban motorcycles from the battlefield altogether. That's ridiculous! Bike week in Gettysburgh is over the top I agree and I've never attended. Ban bikes in the park? Rediculous.

My opinion exactly. It's not the bikes, it's the drivers. I have seen cavalcades of bikers, moving slow, in mourning for a passed friend, and I can tell you, it sends shivers down your back. Therefore, I would not even ban Bike Week, if it's properly conducted and the biking community shows respect for the place, for what happened there, for the fallen.

But a casino and a race track - never!

 

[Irishtom29]

I've never been in a casino but there are four at Vicksburg and I've never heard anyone on this site complain that it ruined their experience.

Evidently Vicksburg isn't properly hallowed ground. The west gets short shrift.

In any event if Gettysburg gets a casino it's not my concern. It's a local affair; maybe some of the people who live there don't think they should live in a time capsule dedicated to the amusement of others.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Seems to me we see a lot of bikers seemingly dedicated to Red, White and Blue with our veterans scooped in there. By passing the big tool organizing ' Bike Week ', that he is targeting a place where so many died and are honored in peace, perhaps word would get out. Everyone is welcome, honoring our fallen, gosh. Please do come, with ' Gettysburg ' the focus, not bikes?

The more people, much less groups to view Gettysburg as seriously sacred ground the more voices raised against this putrid opportunist. Pretty bad when you wish Sickles was around to lend a hand. He'd have had this guy run out of town and probably managed to raise a mob complete with tar and feathers somewhere.

Boy. We do have an awful lot of ghosts hanging around the battlefield. Best, best scenario ever, all of them held a meeting and decided to take up residence with this walking piece of flotsam. Anyone know their website contact information?

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

In any event if Gettysburg gets a casino it's not my concern. It's a local affair; maybe some of the people who live there don't think they should live in a time capsule dedicated to the amusement of others.

Then why are you replying on this thread, if you state it is not your concern? And Gettysburg isn't an amusement park, or anything to do with the ' amusement ' of others, no idea where this entered the conversation. And maybe Gettysburg citizens do not view their town as a time capsule although why towns anywhere require a casino to bring them into 2017 is an extraordinarily baffling concept.

 

[Irishtom29]

Then why are you replying on this thread, if you state it is not your concern? And Gettysburg isn't an amusement park, or anything to do with the ' amusement ' of others, no idea where this entered the conversation. And maybe Gettysburg citizens do not view their town as a time capsule although why towns anywhere require a casino to bring them into 2017 is an extraordinarily baffling concept.

I'm replying to this thread because I disagree with the OP; this is common behavior on forums. Am I too beg your permission to participate or bound to fall in step with others?

Look here, people visit historical sites because it amuses them to do so. Call the enjoyment given what you like but it still boils down to amusement.

 

[nitrofd]

I'm replying to this thread because I disagree with the OP; this is common behavior on forums. Am I too beg your permission to participate or bound to fall in step with others?

Look here, people visit historical sites because it amuses them to do so. Call the enjoyment given what you like but it still boils down to amusement.

People go to Arlington because it amuses them,really.

 

[Irishtom29]

People go to Arlington because it amuses them,really.

Perhaps. Graveyards have a different vibe than battlefields but there are people who enjoy graveyards.

 

[nitrofd]

You know, it probably does. I enjoyed the place, do you?

I would think respect would be a proper answer.

 

[thomas aagaard]

That is why I left Arlington in disgust when I was there...(back in 1998) way to many tourist that see it as a tourist attraction.
(I wanted to show my respect to the men and women who gave their lives... both in the civil war and WWII)