{"id":96487,"date":"2023-07-22T12:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/?p=96487"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:54:03","slug":"bike-night-a-roaring-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tribune-express.ca\/en\/sports-loisirs\/bike-night-a-roaring-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Night a roaring success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A roaring success is the overall feeling about the first Bike Night \u00e0 Hawkesbury event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still on a high,\u201d said event founder and lead organizer Nathalie Lessard. \u201cI can\u2019t believe how many people came.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Estimates of the turnout for the June 23 event are 300 motorcycles and their riders occupied the Main Street area of downtown Hawkesbury during the evening. Along with the motorcycles\u2019 owners there was a good turnout of residents and visitors to the town who dropped by that evening to admire the machines, listen to the live music, and take advantage of shopping or dining at the downtown businesses and restaurants that elected to have extended opening hours for the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a first-time event, that\u2019s pretty outstanding,\u201d said Lessard, regarding the event attendance.<\/p>\n<p>,Feedback gathered through an informal survey and also anecdotes from both motorcycle owners and others during the evening have encouraged Lessard and others involved in organizing the event to start planning for another Bike Night \u00e0 Hawkesbury in August.<\/p>\n<p>The comments and suggestions for future such events included having more live music available during the evening and encouraging more downtown restaurants and mobile food vendors to take part.<\/p>\n<p>Lessard expressed optimism about the likelihood of Bike Night \u00e0 Hawkesbury becoming a regular part of the town\u2019s tourism market scene and helping to support the downtown sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the reason we were doing this,\u201d she said, \u201cfor the merchants on Main Street.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roaring success is the overall feeling about the first Bike Night \u00e0 Hawkesbury event. \u201cI\u2019m still on a high,\u201d said event founder and lead organizer Nathalie Lessard. \u201cI can\u2019t believe how many people came.\u201d Estimates of the turnout for the June 23 event are 300 motorcycles and their riders occupied the Main Street area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":96488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-loisirs"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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