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Sturgis 2020 was awesome!!! The Full Throttle crew took the long 2,000+ mile trip to Sturgis and the Buffalo Chip Campground this year, despite the COVID situation, and had a great time. We hosted a bike show and bagger blast off on Wed and had over 80 entries in the show! We also had a chance to ride a few days there and went to Mount Rushmore, Spearfish Canyon, Deadwood, and Custer State Park to name a few places. The riding is Sturgis and around that area is amazing! I would suggest you make the trip to Sturgis and stay at the Buffalo Chip as there is always so much going on there and you get to enjoy the bands they bring in for FREE with your camping purchase. Woody knows how to throw on hell of a party, that is for sure. I ended up driving to Toledo, Ohio and saw my mother and picked up my buddy, Jeremy Jurski, who has never been to Sturgis. I cannot wait for Sturgis 2021, hopefully this whole crazy pandemic will be over by then. Events, Events, Events! Looks like the world is getting close to coming back. I am starting to see more poker runs, bike nights and events being booked towards the end of the year and beginning of 2021. In facet we have even started discussing the 2021 EXPO here in the office and who we might be bringing in this year as our headline band and where it will be held. Lots of great stuff being planned. At press time we are still holding our breaths on
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Leesburg Bike Fest and Biketoberfest still happening. We host big bike shows at both events: Friday at Leesburg and Friday at Biketoberfest on the Boardwalk in Daytona Beach. Let’s just do what we can and be sure to follow the rules like wearing the masks in public places and keeping socially distanced from each other. I don’t like the masks like everyone else but if that’s what we have to do to knock out this pandemic, then I will follow the rules also. If you have any events being planned be sure to contact us as we can help promote both in the magazine and on our social media sites. Our Facebook alone has almost 150,000 likes! Full Throttle will be keeping our PRINT ADVERTISING PRICES until the end of the year. That is our ads are half priced through December. A full-Page ad is only $300, and a Half-Page ad is only $150. These are very affordable prices as the magazine is still printed monthly and can be found on our website for FREE every month www. floridafullthrottle.com We are also adding DIGITAL MEDIA AND LIVE STREAMING to our list of advertising. We will come out to your location, do a 30 min to 45 min live interview on our Facebook page and make a 1 min commercial for you for only $500. If you would like us to come to your location and live stream please call me at 727-919-1743 or email me at tonyc@ floridafullthrottle.com I hope everyone has a great month of September. Be safe while riding and let’s go BUCS! I am ready to see some Tom Brady to Gronk Touchdowns, Fire the cannons! Happy birthday to everyone with a birthday in September. I know I am excited as we are getting closer to the Holiday Season! Be safe, Be Smart, don’t drink and ride and I’ll see you soon! <----- TEAM FULL THROTTLE HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!
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Hello Florida and beyond! Well, even though so many events are cancelled / shutdown I sure have been busy! We have had poker runs, a female ride day, numerous bike nights and group rides. The one thing this pandemic has sure done is get everyone outside on their bikes! I wish I were physically able to ride mine too, thank you for not making me feel left out guys! That is huge. I have been reluctant to sell my Bike and get a trike, I still like looking at her every day. So, the big news at Full throttle is we built our own studio last month and have geared up to do more web shows and more production, and sorry more of my epic, shaky live streams. We have more news, but the contracts are not signed so stay tuned we are excited about the future, and that is a nice change for us lately! Thank you for all the support during this shutdown. We could not have stayed afloat without
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our readers, advertisers, and the many volunteers we have for events. The help we get is amazing. And the only way we could do the charity events. Sept is one of the best riding months, we hope everyone is safe. The summer has taken several friends in motorcycle accidents, so please there's UBER, Tow to go, a ride from a fellow biker. Butt to nut is better than a funeral any day. Be that friend. Thank you TBACs and WCFR for so many fun events this month, check out their pages for more. And atty Fran Haasch for sponsoring so much. Most of these events would not happen without her help. I Thank you Fran!! If you see me out please say hello, all you bikers look alike with my lack of glasses at ten feet, do not take it personal please haha! If I wore them at events, I would lose them every time. Looking forward to fall and the things we are working on we cannot wait to share!! Laurie Jo
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Pasco Diva Angels, who are we? We are ladies first and bike riders second! You may or may not know us all, but the Pasco County Diva Angels are made up of 26 lovely ladies from all walks of life, who gather for camaraderie, friendship, group rides, and most importantly, we come together to volunteer in our local community. The Pasco chapter began in 2005 with a handful of women and today we still have 2 of the founding members!
been fortunate to sponsor, participate in Pasco County community events, volunteer our time with charities for domestic violence awareness, abuse centers, animal shelters, children centers, Sertoma Hearing, our Veterans and so many more.
Meetings are held the 1st Friday of each month at 7 p.m., non-members are welcome. We schedule monthly rides led by a road captain, and we also have spontaneous rides of smaller groups . We are a close sisterhood who are always there for each other no matter what the storm and we We enjoy each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s company, riding together, never let our giving back to our community and with that, sisters battle our chapter goal every year is to hold multiple alone. fundraising events to raise funds, and in turn, we give it back to our local charities. Everything 2020 has proved quite the challenge to accomwe do to raise money is completely for women plish our yearly goals! Our monthly meetings and children! have been difficult with so many social restricSince 2005, tions and selecting a charity this year proved we have just as difficult. Nevertheless, this amazing donated group of women has persevered and are still acover $10,000 complishing our chapter goals! to our local charities! We are always looking for new members and All from the encourage you ladies to sit in with us! hard work of so many For more information, visit us at divaangels.org amazing or on Facebook www.divaangelspasco.com members and friends! COME RIDE WITH US! Angela â&#x20AC;&#x153;TANgieâ&#x20AC;? DiBlasi We have Media / Web Director 17
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Sturgis was amazing this year. The 80th Black Hill rally was exciting, and it was great to be back out riding and enjoying the concerts. Once again, the folks at Buffalo Chip rolled out the red carpet for us and we had a blast. We met up with the Stilettos on steel ladies and rode the amazing roads of South Dakota. The ride through Cutter State Park was unbelievable plus a trip to Mount Rushmore and Spearfish
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Canyon. On the Wednesday we held the 6th annual full throttle ride in bike show. Wow those bikes was off the chain. Weather was perfect and we had a record number of bikes enter this year. Make your plans now for the 81st rally. We still waiting to see what happens to Biketoberfest but as for now we are moving forward as if it will happen, we have planned our boardwalk ride in bike show as well as our bike show at the speedway. For all the details follow Full Throttle on Facebook and our webpage. Well, that is all from the back yard. Ride safe and remember. Always keep your stick on the ice. MONGO
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40+ years ago when speed bikes started to look like rockets, when high performance was beginning to be aggressively pushed at the forefront of the industry, I remember as a teen my chest just melting at the sight and sound of those bullets-on-wheels. That’s when my dad years before would take me ride in the country all day long on his 1976 Kawasaki KZ 900cc. Back then this bike was the holy grail of all speed bikes. Sometimes he would let me take the throttle. That’s when as a boy I got infused with the addicting thrill of high-powered acceleration. Mother was always nagging at him so our escapes were the only means to peace we could have. Fast forward to this past August 2020. My need for fast results and performance have not ceased. All my shopping is now done online. At the click of a button I buy my stuff in a more cost-efficient way and, the bonus is, I don’t have to get out and shop. Maybe I should try speed-dating! Sitting at my desk, enticed by Andrew Moramoto’s Facebook advertising “get your dream ride…..”, my eyes got distracted. I gave in to looking at my boy’s dream bikes scrolling down Moramoto’s inventory. Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki and HDs of all shapes and colors … A couple of them looked great and the price was right too! Oh boy! Andrew Moramoto’s advertising got my attention and gave birth to a sequence of action commonly known as a full fledge “advertising conversion”. Yes. I pulled the trigger. After 40 some years of wanting a true beast. A speed machine. A rocket. At the click of a button I bought myself a superb Repsol replica. A Honda CBR 1000rr. It took no less than 10 to 15 minutes to get everything approved and ready. All that from my computer in the comfort of my home. Within a few minutes of sending my query, Anthony my virtually assigned sales rep based in Moramoto’s Tampa location responded. No haggling no pressure. Just an easy clean transaction. “I want a loud high-performance exhaust on that bad boy” I told him and “I want to pick it up tomorrow no later than noon.” To which he responded “yes sir” of course. Next day I ubered and
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