Americade Rally Is Cancelled for 2020.
Americade 2020 is cancelled.
Americade organizers have issued a statement regarding its decision to cancel its annual motorcycle rally. Americade is a motorcycling touring rally that has been running for the past 40 years. Rider Magazine has participated in Americade the 1980’s.
From Press Release:
Americade, the motorcycle touring rally and a Lake George tradition of
nearly 40 years, will not take place this summer, Americade organizer Christian Dutcher
announced today.
?When we rescheduled Americade to July, I knew that it was a bit of a long shot. Attempting to create a safe event in the face of a global pandemic was a big challenge and would require numerous changes to ensure everyone’s wellbeing. The odds of it being financially worthwhile were near zero, but we wanted to give it a try for several reasons: We didn’t want to be yet another event that canceled in 2020 (there was already enough depressing news). We knew that all of our partners (vendors and the local community) needed every bit of help we could give them. And we didn’t want to interrupt the 37-year tradition of Americade. It was a challenging, financially draining effort, but we wanted to try. And man have we tried. Five of us have been logging long hours, doing our damnedest to make it happen. But the recent bad turn of events regarding COVID-19 in the U.S. makes it less likely that we could achieve the number one objective we announced when we first set the July dat...
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