set in 2014 in the United Kingdom<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhat You Need To Know<\/p>\n
1,200 people participated in Bert\u2019s Barracuda Harley-Davidson ninth annual motorcycle run\u00a0
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More than 2,000 toys were collected and will be donated to Lealman Fire District to be distributed to kids in need
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Participants were hopeful to break the\u00a0Guinness World Record for the largest motorcycle toy run, but were short on toys
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Thousands of dollars were also raised to support veterans and first responders<\/p>\n
1,200 motorcycles took part in the massive event.<\/p>\n
Donna Henry brought lots of holiday cheer with her festive attire and motorcycle decked out in tinsel and lights.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is decorated more than our house is,\u201d\u00a0Henry said about her motorcycle. \u201cBiggest turnout I\u2019ve ever been to and I\u2019ve been doing these for quite some time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The riders brought more than 2,000 toys to be donated to Lealman Fire Rescue. They will get them to kids in need. It\u2019s the most toys this motorcycle run has ever collected.<\/p>\n
To break the record, all the toys had\u00a0to stay strapped down to the motorcycles for the entirety of the ride across Pinellas County.\u00a0The ride was roughly\u00a015 miles, and it took about two hours to complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes this year even more special because not only with our ninth annual, but it\u2019s a chance to really hit something big for the whole world. For the USA to get a world record for giving toys to kids, what a cool thing, it\u2019s the greatest,\u201d said Bert King, owner of Bert\u2019s Barracuda Harley Davidson.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve gotten close to the record over the years, but this is the first time a Guinness adjudicator\u00a0was there to take\u00a0down the official count of participants and toys.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to be where the kids are when they get these gifts. I\u2019d love to see the smiles on their faces, that means a lot to me,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n
They were short 49 toys to break the Guinness record.<\/p>\n
They also raised more than $17,000 for Bert\u2019s Barracuda Charity, which supports veterans and first responders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Hundreds of people fell just short of smashing a Guinness World Record in Pinellas County on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3076,1548,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,1374],"class_list":["post-75031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-good-news","tag-good-news","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-tyler-oneill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}