I am just as tired of the whole bike-week croud deal myself. For some reason I rode to like 10 Laconias in a row until '01. :) New Hampshire is still there before and after bikeweek. More enjoyable without all the pretentious warriors . When we did our trip in '05 we hit Rapid & Sturgis the week before. Trailers were scarce, except behind the Harley FL's and Wings & Valks. Still plenty of scooters, but all serious scooter tramps and good folks. I wanna go back out to Colorado real soon- I blew up an aftermarket Evo V2 in Denver and never did get to ride the Million Dollar Highway. (RevTech strokers suck) I did get to miss out on 100+ deg. temps in Missouri and Kansas on the return trip if there was a positive to all that. My new RGlide has the police fan kit and premium oil cooler.