Looking cool, being seen, wearing the attitude we all know the types that cruise the boulevards on chopped, custom motorcycles that seem to wear more style than steel. Now Harley-Davidson has made entering that club of cool easy with one of its latest Sportster models, the XL1200X Forty-Eight.
MOTORCYCLE REVIEW: 2010 Harley-Davidson Sportster Forty-Eight
The average female in the United States is about 5-foot-4—the average male, about 5-foot-10. The average sportbike rider is (overwhelmingly) male. You can see where I’m going with this. If you’re an average American female, go out and find a stock sportbike you can reach the ground on. Go ahead… I dare ya.
READER PRODUCT REVIEW: ICON Bombshell Boots
Two years ago I bought the new Firstgear TPG Monarch jacket. Here are some things that real women riders need to know about the jacket. I am not a fair weather rider. I ride a BMW K 1200 GT and ride between 10,000 to 15,000 miles a year (wish I could ride more). I’m not a big women, but I am no skinny minny size 2 model either.
READER PRODUCT REVIEW: Firstgear TPG Monarch Jacket
On Monday, June 21, the number of motorcycles and scooters on roads and highways will more than double as many riders become two-wheeled commuters to the office in support of Ride To Work Day. Ride To Work is a non-profit organization that promotes this day each year to help demonstrate that riding is an efficient, economical form of personal transportation which makes parking easier and helps traffic flow better.
Ride To Work Day is Monday June 21
Women Riders Now is unveiling a brand new look to this Web site today. The site is getting a makeover for a fresher, more up-to-date look and feel. “It was time for a facelift,” says WRN editor and founder Genevieve Schmitt.
A note from editor Genevieve Schmitt: One of the most common questions I’m asked is if changing out the stock suspension on one’s motorcycle to lower seat height will compromise ride quality. I’m answering the question here based on my experience riding 20 years and owning five motorcycles, followed by a more in-depth explanation by an expert of why and how this done by.
Changing Your Motorcycles Shocks to Get Lower
Today is a big day for me at Women Riders Now as I unveil a brand new look to this Web site. It has been a year in the making, believe it or not. Five years of stories equals a ton of content thousands and thousands of pages and moving it all over to a new database management system is no easy task.
There are two types of women who commandeer their own motorcycles, the pulp celluloid fantasy: buxom, cigarette wielding, bad ass babes, or the ones in reality: large and in charge, could kick my ass 10 ways to Tuesday and appear to patronize the same barber as my father. I am neither of these. I am your typical aspiring adult: urban-living, liberal arts diploma-wielding, edgy preppy-wearing, considering a dog getting-female in her early 30s.
Reader Story: Why I Ride a Motorcycle
An estimated 1000 women from all the U.S. rode to Milwaukee on their motorcycle for Harley-Davidson’s Celebrate Women Riders event, a two-day rally designed to recognize the thousands of women riding their own motorcycles and inspire others to do the same.
Women Riders Celebrate in Milwaukee this Weekend
Me, bare naked at the Laughlin River Run? No, silly! So who was bare naked? The streets of Laughlin were bare naked! During the annual April bike rally, Casino Drive in Laughlin, Nev., used to be an event in itself. Crowds would line the sidewalks in lawn chairs to watch the bad-ass machines cruise by. Boys offering Mardi Gras beads for a glimpse of girls gone wild made the sidewalks nearly impassable in recent years.
Backroads With Betsy: Bare Naked Laughlin