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The Girl on a Motorcycle (French: La Motocyclette) is a 1968 erotic romantic drama film directed by Jack Cardiff, starring Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull. [2] It is based on the 1963 novel La Motocyclette by André Pieyre de Mandiargues . [ 3 ]
Sequana Joi Harris [1] (December 11, 1976 – August 14, 2017) [2] [3] was an American motorcycle road racer and stuntwoman. [4] She made history as the first African American woman to be licensed as a motorcycle road racer, racing professionally since 2014, after taking up motorcycling in 2009. [5]
She-Devils on Wheels is a 1968 American exploitation biker film about an all-female motorcycle gang called The Man-Eaters, directed and produced by Herschell Gordon Lewis. [2] Actual female motorcycle club members were cast for the film, who were from the Iron Cross motorcycle club's Cut-Throats Division.
Motor Maids range from 18-98 and come from across the U.S. and Canada. The riders will hold their annual convention in Dublin from July 9-11.
In June 2014, the San Francisco Dykes on Bikes Women's Motorcycle Contingent was filmed for an episode of Sense8 during Dyke March. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Women from Dykes on Bikes feature briefly as characters in the 2018 film The Mule , where they have a passing encounter with director Clint Eastwood 's character.
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 ]
As a cost-saving measure, a stunt scene of a motorcycle crashing into a pond was taken from co-producer AIP's comedy The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966). The Born Losers is also significant for its social criticism and portrayal of the biker gang as a force of pure, unredeemable evil.
Resurfacing required as much as a million board feet of new lumber per 1.25 miles (2.01 km) of track, which would have cost around $125,000 at the prices prevalent at the time. [20] Thus, during the last decade of the board tracks, carpenters would repair the tracks from below, sometimes even during a race, while the cars raced overhead at 120 ...