Why women ride? We ride because we love it! I ride with nine to 10 other women every month. We have so much fun. We ride, eat, shop, ride, you get the gist of it. We normally leave around 10:30 a.m. and return home around 4 or 5 p.m. We try and have a different route each month and I have thoroughly enjoyed every ride we have had.
Reader Story: My Motorcycling Group
Wow. The holidays come, and the holidays go. The Lord gives, and he takes away. Its a seemingly chaotic blur going on around us through the holidays. Busy people with too much to do, with too little time and too little resources are all angrily fighting for parking spaces. The days are cold and short on sunshine. Cold and flu season sets in while everyone eats, drinks, parties and shops their way through the madness.
Backroads With Betsy: The Impermanence of Things
With more women riding motorcycles, women-only motorcycle clubs are popping up all over the country. Now, women interested in joining a riding group have a resource to help them locate one in their area. Women Riders Now has just posted its Womens Motorcycle Clubs page in the “Its All About You” section of links on the left side of the site.
Womens Motorcycle Clubs Page Now on WRN
Toy rides are a popular way for motorcyclists to get together around the holidays while doing some good for their community. WRNs Backroads with Betsy columnist Betsy Huelskamp documents her December outings to two toy rides that had her looking at the holiday season a little differently and re-examining the meaning of life through it all in typical Betsy fashion.
Betsy Reflects on Life, Motorcycling Toy Rides
Biker Premium is a US based motorcycle apparel design and manufacturing company making a new kind of riding pant. Recently, we got to test the leather accent jeans and the half chaps from Trisha DeHall Designs line of high-end stylish leather riding apparel.
New Designs in Denim Riding Jeans
I grew up on a moped, but I have been riding a Yamaha 230 dirt bike for about three years, and Ive been riding street bikes since last February. My first bike was a Honda VTX 1300C, which is a great bike, but I just purchased a 2003 Honda VTX 1800R. The main reason I chose the VTX 1800R was because of the looks. Then when I rode it, I fell in love with it.
READER MOTORCYCLE REVIEW: 2003 Honda VTX 1800R
My heart was pounding as I pulled on my riding boots. My fingers were sweating as I donned my Harley-Davidson vest. I went to the key rack and went through all the keys that we have had hanging for so many years, some that wed long since forgotten what they were for. I saw the Harley-Davidson key first and ran my trembling fingers across those black letters … the key to my new life.
Reader Story: I Am a Changed Woman
The Sportster family of motorcycles, otherwise known as the XL platform, comprises Harley-Davidsons entry level motorcycles. There are seven models. XL is the designation of the chassis or frame around which the Sportsters are built. They all have five speeds, a belt drive, and fuel injection comes standard. Shown is the 1200 Sportster Custom.
A Honda Rebel no longer has to be relegated to just a beginners bike. Cobra Engineering has an accessory line for the Honda 250 Rebel that gives Rebel riders a reason to hold on to the bike long after theyve outgrown it because of the added functionality the bike now has.