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When this group first started it was composed of 51 members in 1940 and has grown to over 1,300 members. Linda Dugeau and Dot Robinson co-founded Motor Maids with 51 members and a dream. She took interest in the idea of creating a women’s group in the 1930s and took the liberty to reach out to motorcycle dealerships, AMA clubs and fellow riders in search to find women riders who wo
Gloria Tramontin Struck (born July 7, 1925) is an American motorcyclist who was one of the early members of the Motor Maids women's motorcycle club, which she joined in 1946, at age 21. [2] She is both a Sturgis Hall of Fame and Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee. Struck was born in a room behind her parents' Clifton, New Jersey motorcycle shop ...
Women in the Wind (motorcycle club), founded in 1979, has had 100 chapters in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Portugal, also purports to be the largest women's motorcycle organization Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), founded as an international organization in 1894, had roots from 1855.
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The Women's International Motorcycle Association (WIMA) is a motorcycle club established by Louise Scherbyn [1] in 1950 in the United States. [2] Branches began in many countries, including Great Britain ( Theresa Wallach was the first international vice president) [ 3 ] and Australia [ 4 ] where the branch was started by Hazel Mayes. [ 5 ]
In 1928, the first motorcycle race organised exclusively for women at the Brooklands track took place. Nine of the ten women finished and Ennis took second place half a mile behind M Ruffell whose finishing speed was 78 mph. [11] This competition was part of a meet organised by the Essex Motor Club and saw Jill Scott (under her married name Mrs ...
More than 80 percent of motorcycle owners in the U.S. are men, according to the Motorcycle Industry Council. This all-women's motorcycle club is Washington's coolest group Skip to main content
In 2002, the sisters were inducted into the AMA's Motorcycle Hall of Fame and into the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame during 2003. [ citation needed ] In 2006 Bob Van Buren, great-nephew of the sisters, and his wife, Rhonda Van Buren, retraced the route taken by Gussie and Addie on a Harley-Davidson Low Rider from New York City to San ...