PirateJohn's Most Unique Guide to Motorcycling in Northeastern Florida — 2005 Edition
  PirateJohn's Most Unique Guide to Motorcycling in Northeastern Florida is laid out as a series of trips, starting in Daytona Beach. Why Daytona Beach? Because a fair number of readers will be looking at this book while attending motorcycle events there.
Of course, you do not have to follow the routes precisely, and if you can read a map—or better, use a GPS—you shouldn't have much trouble navigating.
This book discusses...
- Rider friendly pubs and other establishments: upscale, downscale, and some places where the scales have been broken for years
- Fish camps, seafood shacks, Brit pubs, and other interesting and out of the way dining opportunities well worth the trip
- Intriguing and fun places you can ride to, and in some cases, ride away from... quickly! From biker bars and gentlemen's clubs to Disney, Jimmy Buffet, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, this book covers the places you want to see
- Extensive maps plus mapping coordinates for GPS users
- Detailed information on Daytona Beach Bike Week and Biketoberfest.
Table of Contents
- A few words on how this book is organized
- Introduction
- Historical and hysterical perspective on Northeastern Floriduh from a motorcycling perspective
- Florida climate and wildlife
- Native customs (of particular interest if this is your first trip to the USA)
- Let's go out and ride
- Daytona Beach
- Main Street, the heart of traditional Bike Week
- Greater Daytona Beach, but off Main Street
- The Southern and Western "suburbs" of Greater Daytona
- US 1, South to Titusville
- Southwest of Greater Daytona—Look out Orlando!
- Westward ho! (Leesburg, Ocala, etc.)
- On to Jacksonville! (Micanopy, Starke, Southwestern Jacksonville)
- Ocala to Flagler Beach, and points north (Palatka)
- The Loop
- US 1 and the New Main Street
- Ride North up the coast (St. Augustine, Jacksonville, etc.)
Appendices
- The David Allan Coe scale of biker bars
- A word on GPS (Global Positioning Systems)
- Index and list of author's favorite places
About the Author...
Pirate John is a veteran motorcycle rider with years of travels through the United States, Canada, and Mexico under his belt. If it's wild, weird, upscale, downscale, tawdry, or just plain mischievous then John either knows about it, has been there, was involved, or has his photo on display at the local Sheriff's office.
Pirate John's Most Unique Guide to Motorcycling in Northeastern Florida presents John's rather different perspective on motorcycle touring in Northeastern Florida, including information on Daytona Bike Week and Biketoberfest. John discusses the good, the bad, the weird, the strange, the gossipy, the touristy, and the odd places that are off the beaten path. But most importantly, John will keep you entertained. PirateJohn has a wicked sense of humor, and it shows through in this book.
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