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Meet Woman Motorcycle Rider Marcia Holley First Lady of Fast
Marcia Holley with Kawasaki KZ1000 Streamliner named Lightning Bolt It was in the mid to late 1970’s Marcia Holley made a name for herself firstly as a stunt woman in Hollywood. She was also a passionate woman motorcycle rider who...
Bessie Stringfield Trailblazer First African American Woman To Ride Her Motorcycle Solo Across USA
Bessie Stringfield (1911-1993) was a trailblazer and pioneer of her time. To say Bessie Stringfield was an amazing woman would be an understatement. She was the first African American woman to ride across the United States solo. During World War...
Meet Yvonne Stagg Britain’s First Female Wall of Death Star
Meet Yvonne Stagg Britain’s First Female Wall of Death Star The story of Yvonne Stagg is one I would deem as bittersweet. It is the story of a woman motorcycle rider and her glorious success but sadly with an unfortunate...
England’s First Woman Motorcycle Cop Has Passed Away
England’s First Woman Motorcycle Cop Janet Knott *photo courtesy of UK Media Janet Knott, who lived in Croydon, passed away on February 7, at the age of 77. She was born in Exeter, she was the eldest daughter of Phyllis...
Valerie Thompson Reaches 300 Mph at Bonneville Becoming World’s Fastest Female Motorcycle Racer
A massive congratulations to ‘Speed Queen’ Valerie Thompson! The seven-time land speed record holder has once again made history, achieving an astonishing top speed of 304 mph aboard the iconic Denis Manning-designed ‘7’ Racing streamliner. This remarkable feat, accomplished at...
Queen Elizabeth II Majestic Motorbike Manoeuvres
Queen Elizabeth II Majestic Motorcycle Manoeuvres It’s likely a surprise to you but yes these are the images of Queen Elizabeth II training on a motorcycle. This Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (since 1952) is...
Taru Rinne Feisty Finnish First Lady of Motorcycle Road Racing
Taru Rinne Feisty Finnish First Lady of Motorcycle Road Racing Meet motorcycle racer and Finnish woman rider, Taru Rinne. Taru Rinne achieved 23 championship points in 1989 with a 17th overall finish out 44 male contenders. Undoubtedly Taru is the...
Dot Robinson: Trailblazing Founder of the Motor Maids and Women’s Motorcycling Pioneer
Dot Robinson: Founder of the Motor Maids and Women’s Motorcycling Pioneer If you ask any woman motorcyclist or motorcycle history buff to name one of the first women’s motorcycle clubs in the USA, they’ll likely mention Dot Robinson. Dot was...
American Leslie Porterfield Fastest Woman in the World
Leslie Porterfield Riding motorcycles since the age of 16, Leslie Porterfield is now a well-known name in motorcycling. She holds the Guinness Record as the fastest woman in the world on a motorcycle. She managed the average speed of 232.522...
Women Riders Achieve BMW Motorcycle High Mileage Award!
Voni Glaves and Ardys Kellerman hit a million miles and became the first two women in North America to document riding one million miles on BMW motorcycles. This acheivement gained them the prestigious BMW Motorcycle High Mileage Award! As they...
The Courageous Women Motorcycle Dispatch Riders of War – Saluting The Wrens
The Courageous Women Motorcycle Dispatch Riders of War – Saluting the Wrens During times of war, when telecommunications were unreliable and security was a constant concern, motorcycle dispatch riders — or “despatch” riders — played a crucial role in military...
Ilse Thouret Woman Motorcycle Racer 1930’s
Ilse Thouret Woman Motorcycle Racer of the 1930’s In the 1930’s Ilse Thouret was considered a star motorcycle racer by her country, Germany. Born into ‘high society’ in Hamburg, of French Huguenot extraction, Ilse was highly educated in typically German...
