Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. Donna gives her fitness and yoga students the same advice she gave herself once she began riding in mid-life: “Let yourself be new.” After successfully navigating through many ups and downs, [...]
Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. “When I ride, I don’t dissect my past or try to control my future. I just have my breath, my bike and my God.” Read Tanya’s moving story. What prompted you [...]
Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. After a childhood moped crash, Stacey lost interest in riding. Twenty-eight years later, after mustering the courage to ride with her date, she fell in love. With riding. Not even a [...]
Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. Barely five feet tall, Cheryl, a management and program analyst for the Department of Defense, Navy Branch, knew that by far her most challenging obstacle was going to be her height. [...]
Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. Facing financial difficulties, Judy had to make the agonizing decision to sell the first bike she’d customized to suit her perfectly over five years. But life has a wonderful way about it. Four [...]
Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. Wrestling with the controls on her vintage bike, Diane managed to send everyone off a main downtown Toronto street in a panic. She has since refined her technique and traveled the countryside [...]
Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. A chance meeting introduced Sue to a person who would teach her to ride. And change her life. Now, as President of Women in the Wind (WITW) Black Rose Chapter in [...]
Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. Cindy Walas dreamt of owning a Porsche. Instead, this graphic arts professional and her husband found themselves owing three Harley-Davidson motorcycles and riding along the Mississippi River. Read how she got [...]
Over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with many women and men on the topic of women, motorcycles and empowerment. Everyone has a story, whether they realize it consciously or not and it’s energizing and enlightening to hear them. The concept of empowerment is not always clear. The Oxford Dictionary defines [...]
Women Riders Speak is an interview series with female motorcyclists. Through their stories, they illustrate the transformative role motorcycling has played in their life. Kristen started motorcycling right around the time she started graduate school. Now, with a PhD in Molecular Genetics, she researches liver cell transplantation to treat children with inherited metabolic disease, is [...]