\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWithin a month, it was clear there was a niche to be filled. I got quite a few messages thanking me for having a website full of beautiful photos of motorcycles and the women that ride them, from all sorts of folks. Having always wanted to travel on motorcycle, covering events and writing articles\u2026 I decided to start with my daily experiences. MotoLady came to stand for real women motorcyclists who needed a voice in the community that is motorcycling. We’re here, we’re passionate, we’re capable. Pay attention to us!<\/p>\n
My intent has evolved both obviously and subtly as the site has continued to grow. Inspiring women to ride and dispelling the negative stigma that surrounds motorcycles is my main goal. Giving men something to look at while speaking to the legitimacy of women riders is a pleasant byproduct.<\/p>\n
What’s your idea of a perfect ride?
\n<\/strong>One that starts on pavement and ends with camping for a weekend. Long straights mixed with sweeping turns so you can really play with the centrifugal sweet spot after blasting it wide open.<\/p>\nWe sure hope Icon let you keep that jacket<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWe found you through Jeff at Saint Motorbikes. How’d you know him?
\n<\/strong>Jeff Yarrington and I met through the interwebs! A real motolady love story. His custom Ural, the green cafe racer, got a lot of attention on my website. I posted an image of it from behind with the comment, “Ohhhh, I’ve got the Ural infection\u2026” and a link back to his blog. The next day I got a bunch of requests from readers for more images and info on the bike, so I posted a couple more. Next week I got an email from Jeff saying thanks for posting his bike and that he found me tracking back the clicks his blog got from my posts. And so we began talking. I was going through a rough spot in my life- my marriage was failing plus I was unemployed and searching for work. We quickly became friends, and haven’t stopped talking since.<\/p>\nWhen I got my Monster, he offered to bang out the tank dents and paint it black so I could have a decent looking bike. When I sent it to him it suddenly got more complicated when he asked, “If you could paint this tank any way you wanted\u2026 what would you do?” \u2026and so the Monster Project was born. Not only has Jeff been a great friend, but he’s also given me loads of mechanical advice that’s saved me time and money, and he even did the mods for the Monster Project’s front end swap.<\/p>\n
How many motorbike riders are female? “About one in ten,” Alicia says<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nAny future plans?<\/strong>
\nI’m always planning. I’ve got a few things in the works, both long and short term. The nearest announcement is my new website. I’m moving off of the tumblr platform since it’s unreliable and can’t handle the amount of visits I get. The new site will look very similar, but content created by me such as photography and blog entries will be more obvious. And the search function will actually work, wow! I’m also planning some adventures out of state, hoping to make it to Bonneville this summer.<\/p>\nWhen it comes to the long term stuff\u2026 I’m trying to find partners\/investors for a motorcycle website\/phone app that I’ve dreamed up\u2026 I can’t talk about it past that but just know that if it comes to fruition, we’ll all be stoked.<\/p>\n
If your current ride was a song, which one would it be?<\/strong>
\nAs in, my current bike’s anthem? Motorcycle Blues by Jesse Colin Young. “Yeah your spark plugs are new mama, lord and your wirin’ too. \u2026but your ports are corroded and your alternator won’t be true.” I’m thinking those are the lyrics… my god it’s hard to understand them southern boys sometimes. Ha ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/span><\/p>\nImagine, if you can, motorcycling with all the superficial artifice stripped away. What would you be left with? What would remain at the core of the experience? Allow me to tell you. It’s those moments you have when you’re gliding down that perfectly curvy road in the country, five feet off the ground with the sun shining and the warm wind blowing and time standing still while you get to take a fleeting glimpse into the windows of the big house of the gods. This is something, I’m convinced, that almost anyone with a soul, be it male or female, would really enjoy. The thing with motorcycles is that to get to this sublime point you have to negotiate a whole bunch of smoke, horsepower, oil and a mountain of other ridiculously blokey stuff. Stuff that can turn the fairer sex right off the whole shebang – which is a real shame when you think about it. That’s probably why most females I know would much prefer a day of riding horses than revving horse powers. Except one, that is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[831,760,830],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10234,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/10234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeburn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}