{"id":8556,"date":"2010-05-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2010-05-27T09:39:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:39:26","slug":"niagara-welcomes-biker-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/niagara-welcomes-biker-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara welcomes biker invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2595574\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last time bikers invaded Niagara Falls, tensions were high between police and Hells Angels members from across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later, the roar of Harleys won&#8217;t be quite as ominous as bikers gather for Father&#8217;s Day weekend in June. The first annual Niagara Biker Rally aims to bring motorcycle enthusiasts from across Canada to town to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s common knowledge that there are an awful lot doctors and lawyers and business people who enjoy riding,&#8221; says Niagara Falls Tourism board of directors president Wayne Thomson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are we suggesting people wearing colours are coming here for a wild time? Absolutely not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After approval from the Niagara Parks Commission, the rally is scheduled for June 18 to 20. The main event is a mass biker gathering June 20 at 11 a.m. at the Rapidsview parking lot, where riders will begin a cruise along the Niagara Parkway to Queenston Heights, then back to the parking lot near Table Rock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The last time bikers invaded Niagara Falls, tensions were high between police and Hells Angels members from across Canada. Eight years later, the roar of Harleys won&#8217;t be quite as ominous as bikers gather for Father&#8217;s Day weekend in June. The first annual Niagara Biker Rally aims to bring motorcycle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[3609,1612,3622,3620,180,99,297,2165,1759,3621,845],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-biker-rally","tag-fathers-day","tag-hells-angels","tag-niagara-bike-rally","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-parkway","tag-parking-lot","tag-queenston-heights","tag-rapidsview-park","tag-wayne-thomson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8557,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions\/8557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}