Florida Full Throttle Magazine MARCH 2022 Bike Week Issue by Florida Full Throttle Magazine

Issue 306

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MARCH 2022

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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2022 AT 8 AM - Boardwalk Bike Show - Bike Week 2022 - The Biggest and Best BIKE SHOW At BIKE WEEK - On the Daytona Beach Boardwalk at the end of Main Street. Over 200 bikes!! $500 Cash to Best In Show and a SIX FOOT TROPHY! 20 categories - 60 PLUS trophies 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in each class! Professionally judged. Registration is $25 per bike (1 Class) or $50 for three classes entered! Early registration is $20 from 8am till 10am. Winners announced at 4pm. FREE FOR THE PUBLIC TO ATTEND Sponsored by The Law Office of Fran Haasch www.lawfran.com 866-LAW-FRAN SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 2022 AT 10 AM – 6 PM 2nd Annual GREAT AMERICAN REDNECK BIKER BASH - 2nd Annual GREAT AMERICAN REDNECK BIKER BASH... Saturday, Marc h 19th... only at... Harley-Davidson of New Port Richey... WE'RE GIVING AWAY $100 CASH... EVERY HOUR... and... OVER $3000 in CASH and PRIZES... ALL THROUGHOUT THE DAY!!! * Vendors * Food Truck Rally * Redneck Contests and Games * CASH GIVEAWAYS * Trophies * Prizes * Raffles and a 50/50 benefitting Rugged Warrior Healing Coalition * Music * Dancing * Bikini Bike Wash by Floridas Finest Bikini Babes * Beer, Wine & Full Liquor from Spunky Spirits * and so much more, including... This EPIC EVENT is brought to you by LUST 4 STEEL Promotions & Event Planning and Full Throttle Magazine Sponsored by 8 Ball Motorcycle Tires, Let's Ride, Gina Fay Baker Alderman, The Bodacious Biker, Steel Horse Jewelry and Gifts and... The Fran Haasch Law Group SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2022 AT 10 AM – 5 PM Arcadia Bike Fest 2022 - COME AND JOIN THE FUN on Saturday, April 2, 2022 from 10 am to 5 pm in Historic Downtown Arcadia. Expect to see Motorcycles, Vendors, Live music, Food Trucks, Local Restaurants and more. Our co-hosts, Bert’s Black Widow Harley-Davidson & Attorney Fran Haasch are looking forward to another AWESOME event! For more information and vendor application visit www.arcadiamainstreet.com or eventsarcadiamainstreet@gmail.com SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2022 AT 10 AM – 5 PM 2nd Annual Red, White, and Back the Blue Pinellas - IT'S BACK... Red, White, and Back the Blue Pinellas Music Fest and Poker Run returns to Bert's Barracuda Harley Davidson and OCC Roadhouse on Saturday, April 2nd and it's gonna be... EPIC!!! Come join us for a MONSTER POKER RUN with registration starting at 9:30 AM inside Bert's and KSU at 11am (Last Bike in at 2pm). First Card at Bert's with stops at: 1. The Liquid Therapy Bar 2. Born Free Pub & Grill 3. Riveters Tampa 4. Final Card/Stop at Bert's. We will also have LIVE MUSIC from the Hurricane Shane Band, Tons of Vendors, raffles, great food, ice cold drinks and more! There will be a gun raffle or two, 50/50, other Raffles and prizes galore! Proceeds from this Event will benefit First Responder Mental Health through the Peacekeeper Initiative program.

Here we are, BIKE WEEK 2022!!!! This year looks like it’s going to be one of the busiest in a very long time. I am writing this before Bike Week but because hotel rooms are very hard to find, campgrounds are booked completely full and on all the pages I have seen more people saying they are coming to Daytona Bike Week for their first time ever, it is very exciting. Full Throttle has 5 big bike shows and I know there are at least 10 more happening around town, there are going to be some amazing machines all over the area! All of our bike shows are in this month’s issue so be sure to read the entire magazine on where to go and what to do! We hope everyone has a safe and fun time here in our great state and be sure to follow the rules, you do not want to leave with a ticket! Our First Bike show is Sat March 5th at the Pavilion at Destination Daytona Harley. This is called the Bike Week Kick Off Bike Show sponsored by The Fran Haasch Law Group. We usually get a decent number of bikes in this show. Most of our shows are $20 to enter and $10 for additional classes. For example, if you have a bagger, and it has a nice paint job also, you can enter the bagger class and the paint class for $30 total. This gives you better chances to win trophies or even multiple trophies in one show! If you have any questions about entering ANY of our shows, please feel free to call me at 727-919-1743, this is my cell number and is always on! Our Next show is new, but I am very excited about this as well as it is at the The Hogs Pen Sunday March 6th, across from the Ironhorse Saloon. Everyone knows this place as they have the bull and the seats

at the bar and is usually overflow parking when the Ironhorse is full. Also, we are close to my favorite steak tips under the bus at The Ironhorse! THE BEST STEAK TIPS EVER!!! This show is cool because they have decided to give the first 50 bikes who register for the show a FREE T-SHIRT! Where else does something like that happen!? This show is also sponsored by The Fran Haasch Law Group! Our next event happens on Monday March 7th, we are doing a poker run from Daytona Beach to Miracle City Harley-Davidson where we will also be hosting a bike show at Miracle City Harley in the afternoon. Sounds fun, right!? It’s Monday at Bike Week and there isn’t much to do, why not ride in a poker run where you have a chance to win money and stop at some cool different locations. We are starting at the Cracker Barrel on International Drive for breakfast, then we are riding to the Last Resort Bar, Tailgatorz Bar and then to Miracle City Harley. Of Course, The Last Resort bar is famous for the movie Monster and Aileen Wuornos. This will be a fun day or riding; bike shows and live entertainment at Miracle City Harley so come out and have fun with Full Throttle. Our Next Bike Week Bike Show is a little different, it happens at night at the Grandview Live Gentlemen’s Club Thursday March 10th from 8pm till 1am. This year we are hosting a bike show and audio show the same evening. You get into the club for free if you register your bike in the bike or audio show. This is a lot of fun and something a little different than all the other shows out there. Our last show is the biggest bike show in Daytona beach every year, The Boardwalk Bike Show. This is held right on the Daytona Beach Boardwalk and has over 200 bikes usually entered in it. We have all different kinds of bikes from Antiques to trikes to one off radical custom motorcycle. We give away over 60 trophies and best in show wins a 6-foot trophy and $500 cash! This show also has a people’s choice award that everyone can vote on by going to the Fran Haasch Law Group tent and telling them your favorite bike’s number and they will win a 4-foot trophy. This is a definite show not to miss! It happens on Friday March 11th and starts at 10am and awards at 4pm. Be safe, Be smart and don’t drink and ride, I would like to wish my dad Paul and the amazing Fran Haasch Happy Birthday This month in March! Hope to see everyone in Daytona Beach for Bike Week 2022!

This is one of our most read issues and I wanted to dedicate my column to my Mother Linda Reeves Daytona native and share a few things she showed me over the years on our adventures in Daytona..If you are skipping the East Coast party this year check out the events section on Fb and our blog for all the events around Tampa Bay and Florida.! There is so much. 1 Ok we all know about “The Loop” in Ormond, but check out the Bulow Plantation ruins too. 2 Ponce Inlet Lighthouse you can climb that thing! Check out “Down the Hatch” afterwards. . 3 “Casements” Ormond Beach/Granada, particularly the park.Take John Anderson to it. 4. Daytona Beach Museum of Arts and Sciences is impressive. 5.Washington Oaks Gardens State Park.Flagler is amazing, boulders on the beach. 6, Angel and Phelps chocolate factory Beach Street. Try

the dark chocolate mints for Mom. 7, The Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens, once a theme park called “Bongoland”. 8. “Gnome Tree” Riverside drive Holly Hill ,you'll know when you find it. 9. “Top of Daytona” restaurant has 360 degree views, Mom had good taste. 10 Fort Matanzas reserve the boat ride early to see this little known fort.in Flagler Miss you Mom, Daytona was our happy place. I'm going to wait four hours at Aunt Catfish for a table in your honor!. Don't drink and ride, Peace and love to the Biker world, Laurie Jo P.S. I'm getting excited for our chili cook off next week, we go to print early so I can't tell you I won yet ,but if I beat the boss's fiance Amanda I'm sure you'll hear about it .

Diva Angels Pasco Chapter had a great 2021 together as a chapter, as well as, with our fellow chapters. As a group we had many rides together, fundraising events, supported other groups, and hosted events/rides. 2021 fundraising efforts by far the best yet, helped many local charities and our main charity, Helping Children of Pasco/Hernando County, we were able to raise and donate $2,017. As riders, we love feeling the wind in our faces and the sun on our backs, the rush of freedom and the surge of adrenaline. What many women riders do not love is riding alone. Diva Angels are a sisterhood of kinship and loyalty, and what most don’t know is just how quickly we all bond together, care and genuinely love being around each other and our families.

So, while more women are becoming licensed to ride motorcycles, Tampa Bay has plenty of great places to ride, and we as women have many great reasons to ride with other people. We would much rather talk motorcycles, rides, bikes and new cool gear with another woman. So those who want to have the same camaraderie, friendship as we do, join us today! Check out the all the chapters of the Diva Angels on our website http://www. divaangels.org to find a local chapter near you or visit us on Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/DivaAngelsPasco we are a 501c (7) not for profit organization. Ride safe and rubber side down, COME RIDE WITH US! Website: DivaAngels.org Facebook/Instagram/TikTok/Twitter @DivaAngelsPasco Angela “TANgie” DiBlasi Web Master/Media Marketing

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“Erik Buell did for Harley Davidson what Carol Shelby did for Ford” said a long-time friend of mine who is quite knowledgeable in the Harley Davidson world as a shareholder. These words resonated with me. Erik Buell’s life is so rich with experiences in a career path crowned by achievements few can boast of. Erik F. Buell was born April 2, 1950, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the founder, former Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of the Buell Motorcycle Company, which eventually merged with Harley Davidson Corp. Buell is a pioneer of modern race motorcycle technology. Buell is also the founder of Erik Buell Racing. His first two wheeled vehicle was an Italian Parilla 90cc moped. Early in his days he was a parttime road racer on a 1977 Ducati 900ss in the AMA 'Superbike' class and a Yamaha TZ750 in 'Formula One'. Erik received a degree in engineering in 1979. He then took a job at Harley-Davidson after he went to Milwaukee, WI and "beat my way in the door," as he puts it. He was involved with concept motorcycles. He improved chassis designs of cruisers. Buell used his racing experience to personally test HarleyDavidsons beyond normal riding limits. He implemented an electronic chassis testing regimen at H-D that greatly improved their handling. In 1981 he bought Great Britain based engine maker “Barton” limited production racer. The Barton was featured in the 1980 motion picture "Silver Dream Racer". He re-engineered parts to increase reliability and saw performance gains. Buell first raced a prototype of his bike in the summer of 1982 at the AMA National on the Pocono Speedway. He clocked at a top speed of 178 mph. That’s 3 mph over my own record so far but Eric’s true top speed to date is 185 mph. I have some “operator improvements” to implement! His purchase of Barton took place in 1982 but logistical complications occurred. Eric's inquiry with his employer to gain engineering and financial support was declined due to reliability problems with the Barton engine. Buell then quit his job at Harley-Davidson to devote

more time to his racing effort. Following that The Buell Motor Company got some attention because by late 1984 the American Machinist's Union Racing Team bought, tested and raced the first publicly sold Erik Buell’s bike, the RW750 (commonly known as 'RW750 number 2'), and gave it glowing marks. In the Spring of 1985, AMA announced the Superbike class would supplant Formula One. This left Buell with no market for his creation. Buell forged ahead and designed his first entry into the sportbike market, the RR1000. Using his connections at Harley-Davidson, he acquired left-over XR-1000 engines. He designed critical parts some of which became a patented engineering trademark of Buell sport bikes. The fairing design had lower aerodynamic drag than a few 21st century sportbikes. Buell designed fabricated and sold fifty RR1000 models during 1987-1988. In 1987, Devin Battley smuggled Erik Buell onto a cruise ship for the Harley-Davidson annual dealer's meeting. They set up a table for Buell to speak with dealers; by the end of the cruise he had deposits and orders for 25 motorcycles. Buell then saw the newly-developed 1203 cc Harley-Davidson Evolution engine being used in their 'Sportster' model line as solid base platform to further tune the performance and handling qualities of his bikes. The RR1200 model was introduced during 1988 using a modified version of this different engine design. Through 1989, 65 were produced for sale. In 1989, Buell introduced the RS1200 model, a two-seat version of the RR1200. 105 of these models were produced through 1990. In 1991, Buell incorporated a five-speed transmission mated to the 1203 cc engine. Buell responded to Harley by further improving an already innovative design: the RS chassis. Later that year, Buell introduced a single-seat version of the RS1200 model, dubbed the RSS1200. It won approval of the industry press. Combined production of RSS and RS models totaled 325 through 1993.

In the 1990s, Buell reformed his house as the 'Buell Motorcycle Company' in which Harley-Davidson invested a 51% interest. Harley-Davidson bought complete control of Buell Motorcycle in 2003, and distributed all Buell motorcycles through select Harley-Davidson dealerships. Erik Buell remained responsible for the engineering and design of all Buell motorcycles. Buell led the company to create some of the most innovative, usable sport bikes under Buell Motorcycles. On October 15, 2009, amid the economic crisis and to Erik’s surprise, struggling Harley-Davidson announced that production of Buell motorcycles would cease on October 30, 2009. Buell only wishes he would have been part of the conversation. Not surprisingly, most executives involved in that decision were thanked for their services after. In November 2009, after being dropped by Harley-Davidson, Buell launched Erik Buell Racing. The firm produced and supported race-only versions of the Buell 1125R. Unrestricted by Harley-Davidson, the company released the EBR 1190RS, the 1190RX and the 1190SX. The engines have been re-engineered with a displacement of 1190cc, with a substantial power boost to 185 hp and 102 ft-lbs. of torque. I usually don’t get into specs that much but this is worth mentioning! I thought my BMW s1000rr was badass! During July 2013 the Wall Street Journal reported Hero MotoCorp, a maker of high-end street motorcycles bought a 49.2% stake in Erik Buell Racing LLC, for $25 million. The remaining stake was held by Erik Buell, the founding chairman and chief executive, however the company went into receivership and is owned by a liquidation firm in Michigan. Erik is no longer involved.... Now Erik is almost retired but he is having fun focusing his engineering energies on design work for the FUELL E-vehicle company. In 2019 Buell partnered with French financiers to form a new Electric Vehicle company Called "Fuell". This new company currently offers an electric bicycle called the "Flluid"

and is hoping to release an electric motorcycle called the "Fllow". The Fllow is touted to have an urban ride range up to 150 miles, fast charge time under 30 minutes, and the acceleration of a superbike with a curb weight of only 350 lbs. The Flluid bicycle was first released in 2019 through an Indiegogo campaign, and now is being distributed by Tucker to their dealer network. Buell’s EBR 1190RX currently holds best lap record at JenningsGP. Erik’s grin at the mention of that achievement betrays his justifiable pride. “It was the best handling bike at the time” Buell said. Father to 4 daughters and step father of 2 sons he says his children are his pride and joy above all. His advice if anyone cares to listen he says is to “cut politics down, look for talent and bring jobs back to America”. “Governments should enable choices, not force them” Buell declared. “Tesla has created more new American jobs than any other car manufacturer” he said. One of his best memories is the pride of his Buell co-workers when their bike won the AMA championship shortly before Harley announced they would cease production of Buell motorcycles. I will forever be thankful to Erik for this interview. It truly is a privilege to have spent some time together discussing life, dreams, family and all that should consume a man in this lifetime. Erik was once pronounced dead after a serious accident. His outer body experience taught him we truly are here to be kind to each other helping each other. Looking back his wish among others would be to have better navigated corporate politics. www.facebook.com/floridanighttrain Sources and pictures: Erik Buell, Internet

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