Hola,
I am Duane C Stamm and I am developing bike rides in the Tampa Bay Area. I live here in Ruskin, and love tacos!!! I have stopped at many of your places already while riding my bike through the area. I am creating a local ride called Tour de Taco. I envision a route lined with authentic street tacos and mariachi bands, or at least Mexican music being blasted by loud speakers the day of the bike event. The more Mexican flags and memorabilia on display, the better the authentic feel will be. I know this ride will be very popular in the coming years.
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The good thing is, many cyclists will come back to ride it throughout the year and will most likely stop at your place again when they do.
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The date I am posing for the ride is Saturday, 08 May 2021.
If you want me to list special offers for the cyclists to entice them to stop at your place, please send it to me in a text at 863 860 0950. If you check out the info by going to the route's page under the main page, then under Trips, then under Tour de Taco, then going to the bottom of the page and clicking the routes in pink, you will bring up the different routes. If you click on the blue bicycle icon, you will see some info pop up, such as the name of the place, the address, hours... etc. I would like you to personalize this info for your place, along with any special prices for cyclists, and send it to me in a text to 863-860-0950 or in an email to duanestamm@gmail.com and I will include your place on the route with that info in the map for the cyclists to choose from. Please include your name and the name of your restaurant.
This bike ride event will be a start to a regularly ridden route by cyclists and will bring new customers to your business. I would like your restaurant or taco truck to offer your best soft tacos for $1.00 or $2.00 even (no tax on top of that) to my participants on the day of the ride. They can choose to buy other items, but for the morning of the ride only, I believe $1.00 or $2.00 tacos will bring them back in the future and you will reap the benefits of this one day discount. The reason I need the price to be even is cyclist should not have to carry change. I want them to have a stack of dollar bills and they should decide where to spend these, or they could carry a card.
They will vote for the best soft taco at the end of the ride and the winner's business will be featured as the background picture, as well as the Best Taco to beat, for the next year's ride. A full writeup of the business will also be featured on this website and linked to the ride's webpage as a subpage. The Best Taco will be announced after tallying the votes after the end of the ride. This ride will build into a bigger and more organized event, but this year, we are starting with a couple of free water stops.
If we can use your parking lot for our 10x10 canopy, please let me know. This will be where one vehicle will be parked, a canopy will be set up, and a table with coolers of water will be provided to the riders.
Try to set yourself apart from the others. Even a story or some history behind your place would be great for them to read.
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If you want your place listed on the routes, please text me this info at 863 860 0950:
1) Name of Restaurant
2) Address of Restaurant
3) Name of Owner of Restaurant
4) Phone Number of Owner of Restaurant
5) Any other specials, besides $1.00 or $2.00 soft tacos, you can offer the cyclists to draw them in to your place.
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I might switch the start to a bigger parking area east of Wimauma for lower traffic purposes.
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The Tour de Taco is a ride which will tour the different taco stands, which will be stops, listed on the routes around Ruskin and Wimauma, FL. The basis is to stop at a taco place every 10-15 miles, top off with cerveza / agua / taco / shot of spicy tequila and ride to the next.
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You can see the example of the routes below in pink. I have added a few of your places as examples. When the riders click on the stop, your info will come up as the name of your place, address, and any specials that you have in addition to the $1.00 or $2.00 soft tacos for the ride.
Routes are not final, but are listed here:
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60 MILE - Tour de Taco - A bike ride in Hillsborough County, FL (ridewithgps.com)
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40 MILE - Tour de Taco - A bike ride in Hillsborough County, FL (ridewithgps.com)
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20 MILE - Tour de Taco - A bike ride in Hillsborough County, FL (ridewithgps.com)
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