Vicki’s Blog
Woman Rider Don’ts- A List Today’s Woman Has Never Known
Though this has little to do with motorcycling, yet I wanted to share. I found this article for the woman rider, bicycle rider that is. It was so incredibly amusing, and actually rather parallel to the issues women have faced...
Riding Georgian Bay Loop – The Road Was All Mine!
What a lonely road this is, isn’t it? It’s really any motorcyclists dream. No cars, no traffic lights, no interference – just the wide open road and the sensation of the ride! This is found along the Georgian Bay Loop...
MOTORESS Rolling Continuum of Motorcycling for Women
Very best wishes of the New Year! I hope amidst usual attentions to family and friends, you are eagerly planning your 2012 motorcycle journeys, vacations, races or motorcycle bike purchases. There is nothing better than the excitement that comes from...
Call Me Blonde, What’s Really In a Motorcycle Name?
Recently I was watching a very interesting program on the National Geographic channel about martial arts and the true master forms of the various disciplines. The show then progressed to the level of which weapons were the most effective, the...
Motorcycle Instructors Need Training Upgrades Too
At the end of May, Canada hosted the ERTS (European Rider Training Symposium). This was staged and implemented by the FIM recognised CMA (Canadian Motorcycle Association) and the CSC –Canada Safety Council. A few instructors were selected, myself included, to present specific...
International Female Ride Day Spring Board to Motorcycle Riding Season
Too fast! Time is speeding by. How is it that just over a month ago I was out there riding, enjoying the sensations motorcycling invokes; while women riders from all parts of the globe did the same. It was during the...
Enjoy Your Fifth International Female Ride Day Women Riders!
It’s here again, the fifth year where we all get on our motorcycles or scooters, together, and “JUST RIDE!” Did I know five years ago this idea would be global? Did I believe it would be embraced by women around...
Get Out Your Money Two Carl Fogarty Ducati 888 Corsa’s Could be Yours!
Carl Fogarty If you don’t know who Carl Fogarty is, you probably aren’t into Ducati’s or World Superbike racing. He is quite simply the legend of World Superbike racing. Renowned and worshipped his gutsy, aggressive racing style and a determination to win...
Little Adjustments in Motorcycling Create Big Results
Vicki Gray Zandvoort The Netherlands Frequently during interviews I’m asked if motorcycling has influenced or changed my life. Questions asked to me namely by women, not men. Women aiming to link or underline the psychological benefits motorcycling may affect in...
South Africa’s First Woman of Colour Female Motorcycle Rider Motocrosser
Dolly Mdiniso, from Kensington Johannesburg South Africa had never ridden a motorcycle. She grew up in Soweto, the second of four siblings raised by a single mother, graduated from high school and got a job. But all she ever really wanted to...
NFL Superstars Pose on MV Agusta Motorcycles for Nike
It’s a good tie in for sure, using the “Get Fast or Get Forgotten” NFL superstars athlete catch phrase. Famed sports brand Nike chose MV Agusta as its partner for the new advertising campaign dedicated to the stars of the NFL. Five NFL...
Plug Into Our Electrifying Motorcycle World
A friend sent me a video link to the soon to be released film “Charge-Zero Emissions Maximum Speed”, by Mark Neale director of famed MotoGP movie “Faster”. When I looked at the video, the tantalising sounds of these electric race...
