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Motor Maids is a women's motorcycle club in North America with over 1,300 members from the United States and Canada. Established in 1940, Motor Maids was one of the first women's motorcycle groups and has been called the oldest existing women's club in the United States. [1]
Spann was one of the first women inducted into Harley Davidson’s 100,000 Mile Club, was named Most Outstanding Female Motorcyclist in 1978, and worked as an activist for motorcycle rights. [12] [13] [14] During their years as motorcyclists, Gloria and her husband became "den mother" and father to the younger riders. The Spanns planted a large ...
It is one of the first female motorcycle clubs with members throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. They bear "colors" of pink and black. The club’s insignia is two flesh-colored [clarification needed] women angels with upswept brown and gold wings facing one another. A golden banner, with the 1983 conception date of the ...
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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Bessie Stringfield (born Betsy Beatrice White; 1911 or 1912 – February 16, 1993), also known as the "Motorcycle Queen of Miami", was an American motorcyclist who was the first African-American woman to ride across the United States solo, and was one of the few civilian motorcycle dispatch riders for the US Army during World War II.
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
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 ...