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JULY 2020 | ThunderRoadsFlorida.com | 1 2 | ThunderRoadsFlorida.com | JULY 2020 THUNDER ROADS LETTER FROM STAFF THE EDITOR THUNDER ROADS MAGAZINE FLORIDA WELCOME BACK to normalcy, or at least as much P.O. Box 731-506, Ormond Beach, FL 32173 of it as we can expect at this point. 3 months later [email protected] and Florida is back open albeit a few restrictions, but ThunderRoadsFlorida.com people are back out in public, and happy. Bars and restaurants are bustling and everybody I run into is FLORIDA STATE PUBLISHER / OWNER Beth “LuLu” Connors ready to put this Covid nonsense to rest once and for 850-206-6991 / [email protected] all. The quarantine/rest was nice for a while but enough FLORIDA STATE PUBLISHER / OWNER is enough. Since Friday June 5th we have been T. J. Costa 386-852-2815 / [email protected] putting in a lot of time and miles visiting our friends and stopping in to our clients bars and restaurants to share ADVERTISING SALES their excitement at being open for business again. Brevard County Tony Pettinicchi 631-879-7903 / [email protected] So, welcome back to them!! The magazine has been Charlotte County noticeably thinner the last few months because many Doug Lawrence 419-564-4243 / [email protected] Daytona/Flagler/Putnam of our advertisers were closed for Covid and therefore Sherry Fletcher 386-235-3172 / [email protected] did not have a reason to advertise. Several of them Duval/Nassau Counties are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel financially, Beth Connors 850-206-6991 / [email protected] Escambia/Santa Rosa Counties and are back in this issue. Welcome back to them!! Beth Connors 850-206-6991 / [email protected] We anticipate that next month’s issue will be normal Hernando & Pasco Counties size with the last few absent clients returning to our 386-852-2815 / [email protected] Highlands/Hardee & Polk Counties pages with all the info you need to plan your monthly Metric (John Vincent) 863-835-0814 / [email protected] motorcycling activities. Welcome back to them!! Beth Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties TJ Costa 386-852-2815 / [email protected] and I would also like to welcome two new bars to the Lake and Marion Counties Thunder Roads Florida family. Howlin Wolf in Melrose Beth Connors 850-206-6991 / [email protected] and Lit’L Caesar’s Dive Bar in Interlachen, both in Manatee & Sarasota Counties T. J. Costa 386-852-2815 / [email protected] West Putnam County. Both these bars are owned and Marion, Citrus and Levy Counties operated by military vets so let’s go show them some Jason Ingram [email protected] / 720-275-6713 love and appreciation. We had a nice meeting with Martin and Palm Beach Counties TJ Costa 386-852-2815 / [email protected] them both yesterday and first impression is that these Panhandle are good solid people. TJ Costa 386-852-2815 / [email protected] Seminole/Orange County A special shout out to Gator Harley in Leesburg TJ Costa 386-852-2815 / [email protected] celebrating 27 years on July 18th from 10 till 4. Come South Florida Beth Connor 850-206-6991 / [email protected] on out and party! CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS And finally, welcome back to our loyal readers. Without LuLu, Deborah Speicher, Ron Cox, Sherry Fletcher, Phoenix & Metric, you all this would be pointless!! Raven Vanpelt, Bear, Christine Fourman, Dave Twichell, T. J. 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GRANDVIEW AVE • DAYTONA BEACH IN THE SEABREEZE NIGHTLIFE DISTRICT GRANDVIEWLIVE.COM JULY 2020 | ThunderRoadsFlorida.com | 5 Loss of a Great Man Ron Martin BY LULU The biking world is small. I know people from Sturgis to L.A., even France just because of spending time on two wheels. So, it is a surprise that Ron Martin, a fellow publisher, and I have never crossed paths that I know of. I was saddened to hear that on May 21st of 2020 he died suddenly of complications of diabetes. Dear friends of mine LOVED Ron, publisher of Ron Martin’s Souvenir Pocket Guide for the past 25 years. Sherry Fletcher and Willie from Tropical Tattoo have always told stories of Ron and his love of fellow bikers. I hear he was proud of his time in the Navy where he spent time on both the USS Midway and the USS Kitty Hawk. Ron is known for being a patriotic American. His love of the biking world is only surpassed by his love for his family. Ron was a good father to Ronnie and Robin and a loving son to his mom Barbara. His family member Fuzzy is surely missing him…his furry pet child! Another trait that I heard rumors of about Ron is a keen sense of humor and I was told once when a client who had a large dog did him dirty… Ron put a pile of dog doo on the map at the spot where that bar would have been on Main Street. When I heard that I often wished I had that amount of gonads!!! As Ron would say “Ya Baby!” To those of you missing and aching for Ron’s presence here on Earth all I can say is you were lucky to share sands of time with this man, and live a good life so you will see him again on the highways of the stars! motorcycle mounted miniature urns Ridekeychain urns & pendant urns made by Americans for Americans motorcycle mountsForever available for multi-urns craig 352-789-4746 / Laura 352-789-4747 9302 spring terrace, Ocala / www.rideforever.org HOURS 306 N. State Street (US 1) Mon-Fri Bunnell, FL 32110 9am-6pm MOTORCYCLES PARTS, SERVICE & ACCESSORIES MOST MAKES AND MODELS Serving Flagler County for 39 years FULL-TIME MECHANICS ON DUTY PICK-UP SERVICE AVAILABLE 386-437-7000 SCOTT & JUDYOWNERS DENISEMANAGER 6 | ThunderRoadsFlorida.com | JULY 2020 JULY 2020 | ThunderRoadsFlorida.com | 7 PONY TALES By LuLu I am going to rant about the rioting and looting. Don’t call it peaceful protest! Sit-ins were peaceful protests. The first person to stand and yell in a cop’s face, spit on them, throw pre-staged bricks and rocks at them, destroy vehicles, burn buildings, steal merchandise was the end of ANY peaceful protest! My nephew is a GOOD SWAT cop in rioting Louisville, Kentucky. I am fearful for him. I understand daily the fear blacks claim to feel for family members. The thug they are marching to honor has a criminal background that included burglary while holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly. He still didn’t deserve to be knelt on by a rogue cop until he couldn’t breathe, while his “bad apples” just stood there. But this isn’t the days of the Old Testament…it isn’t an eye for an eye in the U.S.A. and even if it was, as I am writing this, 7 cops have been shot, at least 2 have died, one of them a black cop…do Black Cops Lives not matter? Who the hell are these fools marching and giving cover to looters? Minority business owners still reeling from the coronavirus shut down now have broken windows, missing inventory and in at least one case have lost their lives in the crossfire. Let alone the total cost to our government that is trying to keep people fed while having less income tax to finance it all. I have seen on T.V.