On Saturday, Stanley Freeman, he of Free-Man Electric Bicycles, is sponsoring an electric bike and scooter show and a poker run for scooters, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Tiny Tap, across the street from Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 4321, 2010 Morrison Ave.

The veterans group will benefit from the proceeds of the event for motor scooter aficionados—such as Vespa and other such two-wheeled vehicles. Food—hamburgers, hot dogs and sausage—will be sold. And with Pabst Blue Ribbon is a sponsor, there may well be beer available as well.

There will be a band featuring rock ‘n’ roll, blues and folk music, Freeman said, and a bunch of low-powered, low gas-consumption vehicles. (Electric bikes use about four cents worth of electricity for each day’s charge, and cost between $500 and $1,000.

Besides Pabst, other sponsors are Vespa and, of course, Free-Man Electric Bikes.

For scooters, riders need only a driver’s license, Freeman said; for motorcycles, a motorcycle endorsement is required. “But the beauty of the electric bike is you don’t need any license at all,” so long as it has a top speed of 20 mph or less.

Which gives Stanley a niche.

Each day, he said, he goes down to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office to pull the records of all those folks charged with driving under the influence during the previous 24 hours—which virtually guarantees this group of would-be buyers will fall into that special “no driver’s license” category.

“I send every one of them a card. It hasn’t worked out that great so far, but I’m sure it will,” he said.

For more information on this April Fool’s Day event, call Freeman at (813) 259-9006.