Photo featuring the lovely Misty Whitten.
International Female Ride Day was founded by Vicki Gray, also known as Motoress. The Motoress website is an online magazine dedicated to women motorcyclists. Vicki and I share a passion for motorcycling- we both eat, sleep, and breathe motorcycles. She founded the ride because she wanted to give us more presence- “Women riding motorcycles isn’t new. As long as there’ve been motorcycles, there’ve been women who ride them. It’s simply a way to show how many of us there are.” She says that it’s accomplished it’s mission. “For eight years now, women get out there and just ride, and that’s all I ever asked. Of course, I hope someday it will have a permanent place in women’s lives. Like Mother’s Day, for example.” (Cycle World)
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I’m so excited to announce the project that I’ve been working on for two years… a book all about badass motorcycling women! In the MotoLady’s Book of Women Who Ride you’ll meet 74 of the most influencial motorcyclists of the last century. Motorcycle heroes, trailblazers, and record-breakers like Jessi Combs, Shayna Texter, Laia Sanz, Gloria Tramontin-Struck, the Van Buren sisters, and more can be found inside the 184 pages of this hard cover book celebrating motorcycling women!
Posted on May 4, 2014 in Blog, MotoLadies by Alicia Mariah Elfving