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Happy Valentine’s Day!
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” unknown author A photo-shopped valentine filled with possibilities. ; )
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Another vintage ad…one I nearly forgot!
I have always loved this ad. Plus, I frequently ride just like this… ; )
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My Grandmother’s 1922 Moto trip–Ongoing discovery
After posting my grandmother’s photo album on my blog, I have been approached by a few people with some great advice to assist with identifying the other riders in the album and the route they possibly took crossing the Sierra Nevada Range out of Yosemite. So here’s some additional information that I recently received. My…
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Triumph Datona Ad, featuring a woman rider!
Well, in the world of motorcycle advertising, you don’t see much female representation, so hats off to Triumph for recognizing the female rider and putting her on a brilliant sport bike!!
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Kudos A&S BMW and Gerbing Heated Clothing…
I purchased heated gear at least 3 seasons ago from A&S BMW. I bought a Gerbing jacket liner, gloves and a dual controller to be able to adjust each individually. They have served me well until this winter when one one of the gloves decided it was tired of “giving it up” and no longer…
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9 Foot Ducati Painting Process-A Video by Guenevere Schwien
Simply Awesome…
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British Pathe 1944 Film Clip on Girls Motorbikes-“Fearless but Still Feminine!”
I love coming across these wonderful old historic films and this one seems particularly apropos considering all the recent posts on vintage motorcycling women! This one is of the National Fire Service motorcycle dispatch riders in training. Check out the rigorous training course. These girls are definitely fearless riders and still “feminine” according to the…
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Bikes and Babes-Art and the Female Rider
Well, now this subject was a bit more difficult to research and find any “real” art featuring women riders. Mostly I found either cult like pieces of women on motorcycles or bikini clad calendar girls draped over bikes. But here is the offering from this research including some very relevant credible female rider artists! Unknown…
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New Enough.com becomes MotorcycleGear.com
This is an FYI post to the many that shop at NewEnough. I discovered a couple of weeks ago when ordering that they had changed their name. I am unsure how long it will redirect, so make note that the new addy is http://www.motorcyclegear.com/.
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Bikes and Babes…Women and the illustrious bad-ass motorcycle film
As a continued chronicle of women and motorcycling, I have to include a post on several asinine movie posters I found. How can one do a complete chronicle of women in motorcycling without the irreverent as well as the sublime? Here we have the irreverent. “Hog straddling females on the prowl”
Los Dos
Donna & Gary – Aventuras en Spain