The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

Now that Gettysburg Pennsylvania has had its Bike Week, York can have its week of fun. The York Bike Week extravaganza begins on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at the York Harley Davidson plant.
Bike Week usually consist of factory tours, demo rides, parades, and lots of vendors selling things that bikers will buy. Local economies generally [...]

Some cities and towns have noise ordinances. Gettysburg does not. But that could change soon and if it does it may have an effect on motorcycles passing through Gettysburg. But I’m not sure that it will pass.
Every year for the past seven years, Gettysburg has played host to a bike week. Thousands of motorcycles roll [...]

Gettysburg took a tourism season hit this year despite record breaking numbers. Gettysburg Bike Week was well attended and reenactment weekend hit an all-time record for attendance as well. Yet, spending among tourists was down. A recent article in the Hanover Evening Sun, which does a better job of covering Gettysburg than the Gettysburg Times [...]

Today is the first day of Bike Fest in Carlisle Pennsylania. The event runs through July 27.
It wasn’t long ago - a couple of weeks, in fact - that we were lining up the streets of Gettysburg to watch the Parade of Chrome on the last night of one of America’s biggest and most celebrated [...]

My wife wants to go to the Parade of Chrome tonight. Since it’s Bike Week in Gettysburg this weekend this is one of the biggest things going on tonight. Last night we were in town for the monthly poetry reading at Ragged Edge and before and after the event we’d sit on the sidewalk in [...]

High gas prices didn’t keep people from traveling hundreds of miles for the Gettysburg Civil War reenactments that the area is well known for. It remains to be seen whether the fuel prices will keep bikers away this coming weekend. My bet is it won’t. I’ve already seen bikers roll into town and start spreading [...]

Yesterday, Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog took a day off to enjoy the Independence Day celebrations. There is an interesting tradition here in South Central Pennsylvania. Every community staggers its fireworks shows so that people in the area can attend them all if they wish. Gettysburg, of course, held their fireman’s carnival and fireworks show very early [...]

If you are planning a trip to Gettysburg Pennsylvania this summer then you’ll want to pay attention to Gettysburg Bike Week. This four days of fun is an annual event and it has Gettysburg humming for the entire time. Some people like and others, well, let’s just say they don’t like the noise.
It is noisy. [...]