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First Lady of British Sportbikes
Jenny Tinmouth will achieve her finest breakthrough yet – by becoming the first woman ever to compete in the British Superbike Championship (with Splitlath Motorsport). Jenny has established a reputation for herself as the world’s fastest female motorcycle racer. But she’s preparing to push the boundaries back even further over the coming months. She has…
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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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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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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”
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Protect the Ta-tas…
*Disclaimer* Sorry, it was difficult to keep a straight face while posting this and I realize how valuable the tata’s can be, however, I had to laugh once or twice while posting! I recently found that Dainese makes a chest protector for women riders. Though many see this as humorous, it’s actually a very serious…
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Photographs of my Grandmother’s 1922 motorcycle trip in California astride a Harley Davidson with a sidecar
I began a post a day ago regarding the history of women in motorcycling, and ended it with a couple of photographs that my mother and I had found of my grandmother. She was in moto-garb and astride an old Harley Davidson. Amazed when we found these, it was a total surprise to both my…