MOTOLADIES - They Break the Codes

Pioneers, adventurers, riders, creators — they dare everything.

Under the pen and editorial direction of Alicia Mariah Elfving, founder of TheMotoLady.com and the American Women's Motorcycle Show, Motoladies presents the remarkable stories of more than seventy pioneering women in motorcycling in all its forms.

From the earliest days of the motorcycle, women played a central role in making this new machine a respectable and recognized form of transport, leisure and sport. Whether racing riders, record-breakers, stunt performers, creators, round-the-world travellers, artists… The author draws a line of continuity between the pioneers of yesterday and the influential women riders of today. Along the way, she demonstrates that the motorcycle is a formidable means of taking one's destiny into one's own hands.

We follow the Van Buren sisters on their cross-country ride through the United States in 1916, the late Jessi Combs, motorcycle builder and speed record holder, Lois Pryce, adventurer and author, and dozens of others — all inspiring stories that encourage us to follow their example.

Illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs, this book adds another stone to the edifice of motorcycle literature and pays tribute to the women who have opened new horizons for the entire motorcycling community.