Florida Motorcycle Expo (January 30-31)

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Florida Motorcycle Expo and Bike Builders’ Invitational

Saturday and Sunday (January 30-31)
Harbor View Center
300 Cleveland Street
Clearwater, Florida
$10 Admission

Link: http://floridafullthrottle.com/expo.htm

See you there…


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[dcameras]

Looks like it would be great to go to and if I lived a lot closer I probably would go but I'm up in south Georgia and have too much going on this weekend anyway.

I went to their website and clicked on the picture of the women that dt2mx used and here is that link of more women from the Miss Full Throttle contest.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=59795812&albumId=2655994

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I’m taking three 15 yo’s, so I’ll probably need to skip that part ^^^ … but only for fear of the collective wrath of their moms. However, having been 15 once, I’m fairly certain that they’d like to see that show. 

[dcameras]

I'm sure they would enjoy the show and be like  but I'm sure the moms would be like 

Be sure to get pics of the bikes and the girls  if possible to share with those of us that can't make it there.

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 They would actually not see any more than they would on any beach here in Florida.
 Except of course for no overweight people in too small suits (male and female)

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Be sure to get pics of the bikes and the girls    if possible to share with those of us that can't make it there.

Count on it! 

They would actually not see any more than they would on any beach here in Florida.

True, for sure. Maybe they wouldn’t mind and I’m the one overreacting here. Nah, it would be all over town in twenty minutes. 



btw, I’m currently planning on going Saturday morning. So if anyone goes and sees me there, please join us.

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We went to the Expo today as planned and saw some pretty cool and strange motorcycles. The Expo continues tomorrow. There are three components to the Expo. Outdoors in the back lot are vendors and a stage with rock bands on and off. It was rainy and windy today, so there weren’t that many vendors out there and I didn't hear much music. There were also a couple cool local bikes that were nice to look at in the outside lot. The Expo uses the first and third floors of the building. The first floor is more vendors; it's big, maybe 100 or so (there’s a mc hearse vendor with that whole deal set up; pic later). Also if you want insurance or a tattoo this week end, this is the place to go. The third floor has the build-off bikes. It was mostly Florida guys. I was hoping to see the chain and fire extinguisher bike; nope … booo. Some awesome stuff though.

It was kind of cool to see a couple bikes that we’ve had in our weird thread. However, the vast majority of the Build-Off bikes were most recent builds. It didn’t seem particularly well attended. I was crawling around on the floor studying the cool details of the custom bikes without worrying about anyone tripping over me. Overall, with studying all the bikes, talking to all the builders and checking the vendors stuff, it’s probably a four-five hour event. Definitely worth 10 bucks. It runs through tomorrow.

Sorry in advance for some of the images; the lighting inside the Expo Hall was really bad and my Olympus Digital was constantly adjusting.

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We’ve seen this custom before, except it now has a side car with an afterburner, Gatling gun and sidewinder missiles. There was so much cool custom detail on this bike. It’s first because I thought it was first and voted same in the Peoples-Choice awards.






Me and the builder…


This is Cody ^^. He built this and the next two bikes. 14yo -- Amazing kid!




NOTE the chain frame on this one.






















Kind of an old west theme bike; one of the few bikes that the builder wasn’t around (maybe he noticed me bugging the shit out of everyone else and ducked out). The bike was covered with intricate detail leather work; see next. This was one awesome custom motorcycle!









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We’ve got some photos of this Egyptian Themed motorcycle around here somewhere.














GoodFellas Themed …


NOTE Pistol on the kick and the bullets.






One of the many bad pics; but this bike was so sick … I would have given this dude a hundred bucks to let me jump on it and ride around Clearwater for a couple hours (in the rain).




This was called Area 51. If there was a WTF award, this would have won big time. Also, it was like a foot and a half tall. I swear that seat came no higher than the middle of my shin. Christ! If it wasn’t flashing like a goddamn circus ride, you’d have tripped over it. lol











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Man, would someone turn off the goddamn spinning platform so I can get a good shot of this deal?




















This dude was from Tarpon Springs. Super nice guy; talked about his two bikes in the show at length … this and the next bike (two pics down).




Orb! Orb! Do you see it? I actually got an Orb in a photo! Spirits from beyond! Pent up paranormal ectoplasm! Ghouls, specters, poltergeist draining us of our motorcycle energy at the Expo. Someone, quick call Jason and Grant at TAPS! Lol









A little vintage Café’ action…








Yup…only one biker babe while I was there…and all I have to show is this shitty photo. I think she was like 40. lol

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Okay, that ^^^ was the biker build off. Here are some other shots around the Expo.


Photo of the entrance to the building.


Ride to Eternity, Inc. Dang!




Someone’s sweeeet hack!


These were the folks I just bought my new dirtbike from.


Sick Trike in the outside vendor area.




The Expo was sponsored by Full Throttle Mag. This is their vintage fire truck. I don’t think it looks like much in the photo, but it was sweeeet. Well done custom work!


Nope, not on display. Some dude rode this thing to the show.













There ya go!



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[dcameras]

Thanks for sharing the pics with those of us who couldn't make it down there.

[mrbones]

Wow! What a write up! Awesome pics, too. Looked like a great event.