Frosty Morning is Good--Let's Get it Out of the Way...

Cold (for us) Wx Just Won't Go Away!

After chucking logs in the fireplace last night, it wasn't suprising to see roofs covered in frost around the North Florida area this morning. For the past two weeks, temps have been below normal, but the outlook for the end of this week, (& the start of Daytona Bike Week), is sunny, high in the seventies! When I rode out to secure a 12 pack & some groceries yesterday morning, it was 40 degrees. March in Florida warms quickly.

A note of caution: Surf temps are still in the 60 degree range, even on a warm sunny day, but when I lived in upstate New York, the spring fed lake behind our home almost never got into the 70's, so we understand if you want to don your speedos & swim with the sharks...

SHARKS??

Yes. Daytona is in Volusia County, the stretch of beach where a full 37% of ALL THE SHARK ATTACKS IN THE WORLD OCCUR! Why here? A sandy, sloping shoreline, which only drops 60 feet miles from the beach. The toothy critters love it, they're not out to eat us, but if the water is a little cloudy at low tide, & you step on one, or rub up against one, or are on a surfboard (the absolute worst place to be is right on top of 'em), thrashing to get goin' and catch the next roller, they'll think you're a morsel in trouble, and take the appropriate action, which is to.... EAT YOU. 'nuff said?

Daytona Survival Guide

Official Bike Week Welcome Center

Riverfront Park, Beach Street

386.255.0981

Daytona Int'l Speedway

(if you can't find this place, you need a tom tom)

386.253.7223

Our Favorite Watering Holes

(remember, we're poor scooter trash)

BFFAR

(bikers for first amendmnt rights)

Righteous Joint Packed with Brothers & Sisters

144 Ridgewood, Holly Hill

Boot Hill Saloon

"You're better off here, than across the street"

That's because the CEMETRARY is across the street!

The one that started it all. Bikers come from all over the world to buy their tees.

310 N. Main, Daytona Beach

Dirty Harry's

Middle of Main Street

Expensive Beer, Shots, but the wet tee shirt scooter girls & beer chix are very hot.

Full Moon Saloon

Middle of Main, Across & down from Dirty's.

2 Buck Bloody Marys

(they like to premix in a construction gang's water cooler)

Wise Guys Watering Hole

Middle of Main, across the street from the Full Moon

Guys cranked up their own $2 BM special. A really hot chick attired in garters, bra, and heels mixed us up some fat drinks up on the second floor. She even took to the pole in honor of some old dude from Tn. We thought that dance was gonna send him to the ER!

This joint has a balcony in front of the second floor bar, packed on weekends, but on weekday afternoons, there's not a better place at Daytona's Main Street to people watch, as the bikes slowly roll by on the street below. Some of the Miami chix on 'busas are very droolable...

I guess you can tell ABM spends a lot of time here?

On the way up north...

US1, going north from Daytona up to Rossmeyer World (Harley), passes through Holly Hill, and then past a mini-stretch of biker bars, the Miracle Mile. Some of our favorites in this stretch, just before I-95...

Iron Horse Saloon

1068 US1 North

$4/3$ beers, live music, packed with bikers.

Roll your ride into the compound, if you can get through the tight crowd.

Smiley's Tap

1161 US1 North

Small Place, Cheap Beer, Good People, $7 all you can eat bbq buffet!

And lest we forget...

The Cabbage Patch

Samsula

386.427.8969

When mid-Saturday Arrives, just go by the speedway, follow the bikes southwest.

warning<<

2 wheeled camping available, but very tough to get in and out because of traffic.

this place has thousands of bikers, perhaps a hundred vendors.

IF GOING, READ THIS!!

Ride down to the four way traffic light (where all the cops are). Ride straight through the intersection, go down the road a half mile or so, do a 180, & come back to the light. Turn right, then immediate left into the Cabbage patch lot. If you keep going, or pull in before the turn around, you'll wind up paying to park your bike. Be careful, the place will be freakin' packed, and soon as one band take a break, the next cranks right up. Why this place is always out of Cornonas, I'll never know, but if you haven't been here, you haven't really been around. Last year, they attmpted to set a world record for the largest crowd ever to take a hit off the BEER BONG!

WORLD CLASS FEMALE COLE SLAW WRESTLING!

Honorable Mention:

(want to take a ride out into the country, away from the crowd?)

Cheyenne Saloon

Hwy 17, Palatka, just down from the Bridge

386.328.9216

A Mini Iron Horse Saloon, only wilder, out inthe country, and the Palatka girls love to come out & meet vacationing Yankees! Good place, decent food, & drink prices, and oh, did i mention the girls? Wet tees, no tees? Nah, they wouldn't do that!

This is a nice ride for bikers who tire of all the humanity & want to get away from it all. Make a loop out of it back to Flagler Beach, & ride beachside on A1A all the way back to Daytona!

Bunnell (US1 Just North of Rossmeyer's Harley World)

The White Eagle

4-5 mi south of Bunnell

Vendors, Camping, Food, Beer, Usually one Name Band

The Dog

Headed North, turn right at the first lite (there are only 2 anyway)

half mile on the right. Biker owned and operated. Nice Joint.

The Bantam

Fish Sandwich $5.99

(so big, even Linda Lovelace couldn't get her mouth over it!)

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We'll be there!