Motorcycles: why women ride

October 20, 6:37 PMMotorcycle Travel ExaminerPatty Davis

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Women enjoying the adventure of riding & vacationing from the back of their respective motorcycles.

Photo Credit: David A. Davis

Actually women ride motorcycles for the same reason men ride: for the freedom, the sense of adventure, and the pure joy of riding. The reason women came to the front seat is a varied as the women themselves.

Some women were born to ride, coming from motorcycling families where weekends were spent in the dirt or on the highways and on two-wheels. Those girls knew from an early age that they would be grabbing the handlebars and taking off whenever the spirit called.

Some women, after enjoying a few decades of riding behind, are ready to see why the motorcyclist has a permanent smile.

Some women hear their doctors proclaim them cancer-free and after thinking that over for a moment, choose not to let another opportunity to live life to its fullest ever pass them by.

Some women decide to celebrate mid-life changes or a mid-life crisis, such as an empty nest or a suddenly single status, just like the men would do; go out and spend some money and buy a toy.

Some women are encouraged by a girlfriend who rides. Maybe that friend even says “sign up for the Motorcycle Safety Foundation class and I will take it with you.”

With the advancement of technology (electric starters for example), the availability of training, and the encouragement of other women riders, the percentage of women riders is the fastest growing segment of the motorcycling public.

For the men who comment “I would never let my wife ride” we retort “and that is why I would never marry or let my daughter marry someone like you.”

But the main reason women ride is BECAUSE WE CAN!

If you want to share the reason(s) you ride, leave a comment below.

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