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Choosing a BEGINNER BIKE!
I have always been an advocate of starting small and working your way up to a larger displacement motorcycle. It’s how I began riding and usually, for those successful and ongoing riders, starting small was indeed the factor. I can’t stress enough just how much confidence one can get on a machine that can easily…
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Fabulous VINTAGE photographs of female motorcyclists!
Surfing Facebook the other day I found this wonderful article full of historic photos of women on motorcycles. As much as I don’t usually just blog another site, I felt this was truly an article to be seen. I do hope you enjoy it as much as I did! 32 Badass Vintage Photographs of Women…
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REPOST: Bike and Babes: The Female Rider…who is she and why does she ride a motorcycle?
photo credit/chickthatrides What is the quintessential female rider? In fact how do we define women riders in general? Who are those women that decide to reject standard female roles for a less common practice. Are they adventurers, enlightened or just plain mad? The population of female riders is expanding and with that expansion, come women…
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Lanakila Macnaughton–The Womans Motorcycle Exhibit
I had posted earlier this year regarding Lanakila Macnaughton’s Womans Motorcycle Exhibit that was held in Portland, OR. She is an OR rider and photographer that prides herself in showing “real women riders” not just the sexy female prop draped over a beautiful motorcycles. Lanakila likes the more gritty, fun, raucous, presentation of REAL female…
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Why we ride…just in time for International Female Ride Day!
Photo credit: chickthatrides Since International Female Ride Day is tomorrow, I thought it was the perfect time to repost an article I wrote a couple of years ago, where I interviewed several female riders with the question, “why ride a motorcycle?”. I got some amazingly varied answers as well and several that bordered on channeling…
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Survey for Female Motorcyclists and Pillions!!
Vintage photo from google Here’s your chance to speak up, girly riders and pillion riders. A women completing her doctorate degree is doing some academic research and is asking for your help with a survey she is doing involving female motorcyclists and women who ride behind other riders. It will take you a bit of…
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What “women” ride…
Anke-Eve Goldman According to Cycle Trader, the following is a LIST of what we “female riders” ride. I found it interesting and a very small cross section of female riders in general. I believe it is a purely American trend, as in Europe it certainly isn’t true. Women ride a much broader selection of machines…
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Part 3–2012 Girly Ride
We arose to morning fog and cold and coffee seemed to be in order, before considering anything else. The Curly Redwood Lodge was the perfect motel, clean and comfortable with parking right in front of our room and fresh coffee in the office! They even provided a tray so that I could deliver fours cups…
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We are into July…Happy Independence Day!!
Now did that bag fit perfectly or what?? Oh my, where has the time gone! I got home a few days ago from my Canada adventure and after sorting photos, chatting with friends and making a pedicure appointment, I’m ready to embark on a writing frenzy. We had an awesome ride to the Pacific Northwest,…
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Motorcycling meets High Fashion!
Last week I found this really fun fashion collage site called Polyvore and I’ve spent lots of free time playing with it. You can go to any website and clip a picture and build a collage with the clippings. Being I was a hairdresser for a mere 18 years, I still have my inclination toward…