Daytona Bike Week With Andrea Lowell

BetUS.com was on hand in Daytona Beach, Florida, this week for Bike Week holding bikini contests and castings for their upcoming 2008 Calendar photo shoot and also filming footage for their popular behind the scenes DVD. 

Sports911.com was on hand to take part in this popular event. 

On hand also was former BetUS.com Calendar Girl and Surreal Life babe, Andrea Lowell.  Ms. Lowell is a current spokesperson for the popular online gambling firm.  We caught her riding the mechanical bull.  You go girl!

Lowell will be starring in the new Playboy TV program, Canoga Park, which begins filming in November of 2006. In 2007, Andrea will make her feature film debut, in the motion picture Jason and Ross.

Daytona Beach Bike Week, also called Daytona Bike Week, is a motorcycle event and rally held annually in Daytona Beach, Florida. Approximately 500,000 people make their way to the rally area for the 10-day event. The festivities include motorcycle racing, concerts, parties, and street festivals. The event is usually held on the first full week of March and contends with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally as the most popular motorcycle rally in the United States.

The rally started as the Daytona 200 on January 24, 1937. This first race in Daytona was a 3.2 mile beach and pavement course, and won by Ed "Ironman" Kretz from Monterey Park, California, riding an Indian motorcycle with an average speed of 73.34 mph.

This yearly race took a break from 1942 to 1947 due to World War II. During the years off, an unofficial event was still taking place commonly called Bike Week.

In 1947 the official race resumed and gained in popularity. The event was now promoted by William France Sr., co-founder of NASCAR.

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Sparky Collins, Sports911.com

Originally published March 9, 2007 9:45 pm ET