Tag Archives: Women

I’ve had my own violent and inevitable death described to me casually, by complete strangers, an inordinate number of times. It’s always a friendly conversation accompanied by knowing nods and benevolent looks. It’ll be a closed casket funeral, they say. Your ...

I am a motorcyclist, a woman, and middle age. Like most women in my age group I didn’t get into motorcycling until later in life. Not that I wasn’t interested in it, in fact as a kid I used wooden ...

Madeleine Velázquez, a.k.a. MISSRIDER is a long distance adventure motorcyclist. Her rides have taken her from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from Canada to Panama, and most recently to Alaska and back. She even saved Ewan McGregor from himself along ...

We hear it all the time… The fairer gender isn’t exempt from it either. It’s the uproar we face as a reaction to our actions, our look, our desires, our love, and our will to be ourselves. It’s the static ...

Ewa (like Whateva) called me Monday night. She was hooking her battery back up to her bike. The last time I saw her we were in her garage pulling the battery out of her motorcycle and winterizing it. The temperature was right ...

In 1916 Adeline and Augusta Van Buren set out from New York to prove they could ride as well as anyone. With World War I looming, the Van Buren sisters planned to show that women had what it took to ...

In November 2013 Joanne Gearchic Donn was featured as YouMotorcycle’s Woman of the Month. She had demonstrated a passion of motorcycling as lifestyle. Joanne had worked in the motorcycle industry for years including attending conventions such as EICMA in Milan, ...

I see more, I feel more; therefore I am more alive while riding a motorcycle. I have driven these roads hundreds of times since I was a kid but never have I experienced them this way. It is different on ...

We sit behind our desks, or serve average faces coffee. We stand behind wandering eyes, always looking for the next adventure. That next opportunity to grab a moment and store it away into the archives of our mind. Women confined ...

My friend cocked her head sideways and stared at me from across the table. “Everything you just said was a contradiction.” She said. I love it when an intelligent and attractive woman calls me out on my shit, so I smiled ...