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Around 10–15 percent of motorcyclists in the US are women, [8] [9] while at major African American motorcycle rallies, such as Black Bike Week or the National Bikers Roundup, women make up close to half of participants. [10] From 1940 until 2008, Myrtle Beach had also hosted a predominantly white motorcycle rally, called Harley-Davidson Week ...
A motorcycle rally is a gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts. Rallies can be large or small, and one-time or recurring. Some rallies are ride-in events, whereas some like the Iron Butt Rally involve days of riding and an actual gathering only at the end of the ride.
Many rally girls end up traveling throughout the U.S. to work at several different rallies such as Daytona’s bike fest, Laconia Motorcycle Week, and Galveston, Texas’ Lone Star rally.
Poster celebrating Crockett's Iron Butt Rally win. Wendy Crockett is an American long-distance motorcycle rider.In 2019, Crockett achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first woman to win the Iron Butt Rally, an 11-day, 11,000-mile motorcycle endurance event often referred to as "The World's Toughest Motorcycle Competition."
The National Bikers Roundup is the largest camping motorcycle rally in the United States and is organized by a group of African American motorcycle clubs. Its location changes every year [1] but every decade it returns to its founding city of Kansas City, Missouri. More than 1,000 motorcycle clubs attend the event and black women make up close ...
The Oyster Run is a motorcycle rally held annually each September since 1981 in Anacortes, Washington. It is the largest rally in the Pacific Northwest [3] with 2006 attendance estimated in the tens of thousands. [4] There was no rally in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] [6]
Black Bike Week is one of three annual motorcycle rallies in Horry County. Harley Bike Week, also known as Bike Week, will be from May 10-19 . There also is another Bike Week fall rally held from ...
The event has drawn praise throughout its history in national motorcycle press as well as national non-motorcycle media, including in the New York Times ''Americade is doing more for the image of motorcyclists than any other event,'' [4] the Associated Press “Americade is about as peaceful as a motorcycle rally can be.