[ExI] southern data

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
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>.Somebody had to do this eventually.  Florida is the state.  Here we go.

 

>.Predictions anyone?   spike

 

 

Earlier I had commented about an upcoming motorcycle rally that might give
us a dataset analogous to Sturgis, but now I am rethinking that notion.

 

Biketoberfest is a smaller version of Sturgis, typically 100k rather than
500k who gather annually in South Dakota, but generally the same idea,
similar crowd, lotsa skin showing (tragically weather-beaten decades past
sell-by date skin (but hey, we're bikers, not the Spring Break crowd.))  

 

Sturgis has nowhere near enough hotel space, so most of the proles sleep in
tents at the local campgrounds.  There is some of that at Daytona, on the
beach as such, but in general, the hotels and timeshares are sufficient to
house most of the throngs (Florida has swarms of mosquitoes that would
discourage the most hardy outdoorsmen (ravenous bastards they are (the
mosquitoes I mean.))  

 

Another reason Biketoberfest isn't analogous to Sturgis: South Dakota has a
population of less than a million, but half a million outsiders came in for
a week in early August.  Florida's population is over 21 million, and 100k
are gathering in Daytona for a long weekend.  Not the same thing.
Everything in Florida is huge, not just our beloved roaches (hey some of us
have taken the time to appreciate the ugly crawlers.)  Crowds are enormous
there.  Biketoberfest is just another day in Daytona Beach.

 

So. I am now thinking Biketoberfest will not necessarily provide the dataset
I hoped for.

 

However. from what I can tell, Florida public schools will be going back on
campus next week.  John Clark might offer insights from his home state?  A
running commentary from eyes on the ground there perhaps?

 

spike

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

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