WRNs Backroads with Betsy columnist, Betsy Huelskamp, is one of several celebrity guests participating in the 1st Annual Broc Glovers Breathe Easy Ride Against Cystic Fibrosis. On Sunday, March 30, 2008, motorcycling enthusiasts will ride alongside a host of racing greats and other motorcycling personalities in this fun street ride to benefit a great cause.
With spring around the corner and thermometers rising, riders living in winter states are readying themselves and their motorcycle for the first ride of the season. Before rolling the motorcycle out of the garage, there are some important items to check to ensure the first ride is a safe one.
Prepping Your Motorcycle for Summer
In five days, I canvassed Daytona Bike Week looking for things that caught my eye and testing new products and motorcycles for future stories on WRN. Armed with a still camera as well as a video camera, here are a few highlights of what I saw, including a teaser of stories to come on WRN.
Daytona Bike Week 2008: Whats there for women
The Harley-Davidson CVO program creates limited edition, exclusive motorcycles produced by teams of technicians in a special assembly area at the Harley-Davidson plants in York, Pa., and Kansas City. Each year several of the regular models are chosen to go through the CVO treatment. These custom bikes feature a Twin Cam 110, the largest displacement production engine offered by Harley. Image shown in the Screamin Eagle Softail Springer.
Custom Vehicle Operations (CVO)
To celebrate the increase in women riding their own motorcycles, Harley-Davidson organized a womens parade taking place during Daytona Bike Week 2008. The parade was the culmination of the “Get Down to Daytona” contest where six winners submitted videos talking about their riding mentors. WRNs Genevieve Schmitt was there covering the event.
Largest Harley Womens Parade Ever
Hundreds of Harley-Davidson women riders joined together in Daytona Beach, Fla., for one of the largest Harley-Davidson womens rides in history. Originally, the Harley-Davidson Womens Day Ride benefiting Muscular Dystrophy Association was to be limited to 105 women, but after an incredible response from women riders asking to join the ride, Harley-Davidson decided to increase the size to accommodate the large demand.
Hundreds of Women Ride in Daytona Harley Parade
WRN is resurrecting some motorcycle video test rides. Heres one we did on the 2008 V Star 1300, which is a step up in power over the 1100. The 1300 features an all new engine and styling call it the next generation V Star. The motorcycle is extremely smooth and predictable, and considering it weighs about 625 pounds, it moves along like its a much lighter machine.
MOTORCYCLE REVIEW: Video Test Ride: V Star 1300
Since I started Women Riders Now two years ago Ive been on a treadmill and the treadmills been running between fifth and sixth speed. For those who regularly use a treadmill you know thats between a jog and a run. Fellow entrepreneurs can relate, Im sure. Running your own business is fulfilling, fantastic, and fanatical. You work more than you play, fortunately motorcycling is a “fun” business so it easily merges with the “play” part of life.
This 2008 Powersports Dealer Expo in Indianapolis was larger than life, bursting at the seams of the downtown convention center. Much to our excitement, this years Expo catered to female riders more than ever before, giving women the power of choice, self-expression, independence, and protection. We spoke with a few well-known brands to get the inside scoop on what theyre doing for todays women on two wheels.
Hot New Gear: Bringing Power to Women Riders
The 2009 American Motorcyclist Associations International Women Motorcycling Conference will take place at the Keystone Resort Conference Center in Keystone, Colorado.
2009 AMA Womens Conference Set for Colorado