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Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, Salt Lake City, 1915 At Pacific Ocean, 1915. Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, mother and daughter from Brooklyn, New York, were pioneering motorcyclists who completed a 9,000-mile (14,000 km) round trip ride from New York to San Francisco and back on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle-sidecar combination in 1915.
In 1970 she published the successful Easy Motorcycle Riding (1970, Oaktree: ISBN 0706122623). In 1973 she sold her shop and moved to Phoenix, Arizona where she opened the 'Easy Riding Academy'. In addition to her riding school Wallach was heavily involved in the formation and running of the Women's International Motorcycle Association.
She also drove a tricar in the twenty-four-hour London to Edinburgh Trial, again with a female passenger, making good time in torrential rain. [8] Roc at Right and Rex on the left with Muriel Hind in about 1907. In 1907, AW Wall of Roc created a V-twin engined motorcycle to her specifications of a dropped (lady's) frame. [4]
Clara Marian Wagner (11 November 1891 – 30 December 1961) was one of the first documented woman motorcyclists, who became notable as an endurance racer and was sponsored by the Eclipse Machine Co., a bicycle company, for using its braking products. Wagner motorcycle, 1911 model
Scherbyn started riding motorcycles in 1932, after years of riding in a sidecar and then as a pillion passenger. [3] Scherbyn's first motorcycle, purchased by her husband George as a gift, was a Hendee Indian Scout. [2] She was initially concerned what others might think but was supported by women from work and embraced riding. [4]
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 ...
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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.