|
As with parades of previous years, the side streets
are already filling up with impromptu parties, and lots of motorcycles, even
as the parade continues.
|
|
The main streets will be opened up, after the
parade ends, but many side streets will remain closed to act as large bike
parking lots. We are one block off of the main parade route.
|
|
A little girl forgets her shyness.
|
|
The parade winds down, and the spectators close
in. Up on Wisconsin Avenue, things have already ended, and the streets have
been reopened to crowds heading down to the lake.
|
|
These are the last of the parade riders. Bringing
up the rear will be some trucks, and a police escort.
|
|
The last of the riders has passed, and the parade
ends as it began, with a police escort, and the Harley Davidson Semi's
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Harley trucks pass, ending the parade, and
are followed by emergency service vehicles, and a huge contingent of motorcycle
police from all over the world.
|
|
|
|
|
Who's in charge here anyway?
|
|
|
Awaiting the rest of the mounted officers, and
reorganizing for the final ride down to the lake.
|
|
Head em up, move em out!
|
|
The front line of bikes from an assortment of
police departments. Note the baby blue helmets on the officers to the left.
|
|
The motley crew moves out. The idea was to get
all of the police riders gathered in one place and then make a grand entrance.
|
|
The thin blue line, or at any rate the motorcycle
mounted portion of it.
|
|
Electra glide in blue.
|
|
Who are you, and why are you taking my picture?
|
|
The last of the parade bike has gone by, and
the parade is over. Police (Milwaukee, I think) take down the barricades
to open the main streets back up.
|
|
As soon as the streets are opened, throngs of
reunion riders come down, as a sort of unofficial parade. They are headed
to the lake front festival grounds, along with the parade riders.
|