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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…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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Bikes and Babes–Women Motorcyclists Riding into History
Continuing my study of Bikes and Babes, we’ll take a look at women motorcyclists that made history in the early years. In 1915 Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, a mother and daughter team, rode from New York to California to attend the San Francisco World’s Fair while making themselves the first female riders to cross the…