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The baton in the Women Riders World Relay arrived for the Australian leg yesterday with about 58 women riding out of Perth. Among them is 55-year-old Brisbane grandmother Collette Tindal (pictured above) who has so far ridden all the route, except for Indonesia. Women Riders World Relay (WRWR) is a world-first all-female motorbike relay passing a baton across 80 …
Vikki van Someren is married to Anthony ‘Dutch’ van Someren, the founder of the hugely successful Bike Shed Motorcycle Club (BSMC) in 2011. Since that date, The Bike Shed has not only run annual custom motorcycle shows in London and Paris, it has also branched out and set-up a 12,000 square foot venue in Shoreditch, …
The 2014 Babe Raid motorcycle rally in Ballina has set a world record for the most women on motorcycles in one place. Babe Raid organiser Debb Dagger says the annual Ballina Raid is now the biggest all-women’s motorcycle weekend event in the world. Last year, 284 women rode to the coastal NSW town to set …
Women are safer riders then men according to statistics, so we asked women why that is so and give you some tips on how you can become a safer rider. According to the ABS, there are almost 745,000 motorcycles registered in Australia for 2013. Staggeringly, this number is an increase of 31.2% since 2008! From …
A Biking Ladies Day has been organised to “celebrate and educate female riders”. Erika Fearman, a self-confessed “weekend chief kitchen bitch” at Bellbird Creek Cafe, Kenilworth, in South East Queensland, says she decided to organise the free event on March 29 “to build a bit of community spirit”. “The ladies day is mostly intended as …
In Part 1, we looked at the pioneers of women’s motorcycle riding apparel and how it has blossomed only in recent years. In Part 2 we look at more of the newcomers who are helping get more women into fashionable protective riding gear and on to bikes. DriRider designer Andrew Wright is a man who …
The first women’s riding gear was a pair of jodhpur pants made by Harley-Davidson in the 1920s. There followed a long hiatus where motorcycle manufacturers and riding gear companies basically ignored women riders’ needs. It’s only been in recent years that riding gear companies have bothered to target women riders and pillions. YOU MIGHT ALSO …
Not all women riders are battered wives with rough husbands like on Sons of Anarchy, says women riders rally organiser Debb Dagger. She says women need to “work hard on having the wider community understand who we are”. “We are not all Sons of Anarchy,” she says. “Sadly, a woman I met recently referred to …
Women’s-only riding courses and basic mechanics courses could encourage more women to take up riding, according to women riders. These are two suggestions from women riders I interviewed today in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The question arose a couple of days ago after I published a story about a Harley-Davidson study of more than 2000 …