Rode up to Americade to spend the weekend gazing at the bikes, looking at some venders, eating great food and enjoying good MC conversations. I have been attending Americade for the last 22 years and its been going dowhill the last ten years. Too much commercialization of what used to be a friendly biker event. The main strip is now blocked by a circus looking arena where two paid fools burnt rubber for everyone to gawk at. No more relaxing and watching the parade of slow moving bikes traveling up and down main street. The vendor quality has plummeted to Chinese knockoffs. Parking has been seriously altered on main street but who cares because the "parade" is gone. No more are any bands, comedians and other talent allowed because the company who bought the rights want competition. This year I brought a friend who never attended an Americade and after one day he suggested we leave! We left Saturday morning and rode across NY state till Sunday evening. The old Americade is gone and welcome to the new commercialized profit ridden garbage called Americade. The old Goldwing riders who started Americade in the 1960s must be rolling in their graves....if they are dead...lol.