Petra Ruzickova
FastDates.com Calendar Kitten

Petra Ruzickova is one of the most strikingly beautiful SBK World Superbike grid girls who I, Jim Gianatsis, saw when watching the European rounds of the SBK race coverage on TV. She was usually pared on the starting grid and awards podium with another equally tall and beautiful Czech model, Jitunka Parinka. From the first time I saw them, I knew I had to have them as featured models in the FastDates.com Calendars.

Beginning in 2013 I cotacted World Superbike photographer Max Olianato find out who they were, and then booked them through one of their Prague based model agencies - Petra's Angels, who books most of the grid girls to DORNA for the SBK and MotoGP races in Europe. The first year 2014, I had Max photograph Petra and Jitka together at the Nurburgring SBK race for the 2015 Fast Dates World Superbike Calendar.

Of course, their pictures in the 2015 Fast Dates Calendar came incredible, in part to Max's great photography, so I booked the beautiful SBK models to come to Los Angeles the following year the summer of 2014 for two weeks. I inviited them staying at my house and shooting with me for all three editions of the next 2016 FastDates.com Calendars.

The 2016 Fast Dates World Superbike Calendar was shot with all the top factory race bikes up at the United States round of the Superbike World Championship at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, where Petra and Jitka again also work on the SBK starting grid and Awards Podium on race days as the official SBK girls. The weekend started off with a fun drive up the Pacific Coast Highway which is featured HERE and it the FAST 2016 Calendar Yearbook available in Member's Corner.

You'll find more of Petra in her
Members Corner Portfolio

The next week Jim showed the girls around Los Angeles, which included a trip to Griffith Observatory and the Los Angles Zoo, Rodeo Drive and Venice Beach. There was also a mid-week studio shoot for the 2015 Garage Girls Calendar.

The next weekend was our big annual LA Calendar Motorcycle Show where the Czech beauties met with Calendar fans through the day and helped award the Calendar Bike Building Championship Trophies. Then the next day they shot in the studio with all the top bikes at the Calendar Show for the next 2015 Iron & Lace Custom Motorcycle PinUp Calendar.

Two days later the girls flew back home to Prague, but not before becoming good friends with Jim Gianatsis and sharing a lot of wonderful memories. We look forward to work with them again soon!

Petra Ruzickova
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