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Women who Ride

Community, Petrolettes, Life + Style, Riders, MotorcyclesHeleana Genauswomen who ride, motorcycles, custom culture, photography, ninetynineco, collaborationComment
Women who Ride

PHOTO | KATE DISHER-QUILL

Custom culture publication Ninety Nine Co. collated this article of social media heavyweights who share their love of motorcycling to their growing followers. IVV were invited to write the forward to pre-curse the ladies stories. Amongst the women sharing their stories of riding are Petrolettes Kinga and The Throttle Dolls filling the popular ranks. 

While women on motorcycles are not a new phenomenon, they seem to be growing in popularity and social media has facilitated this. We're now more connected than ever and able to self publish our own lives. So why not cheer each other on? It's easy to forget the prejudice women have been subjected to in the past with this new wave of women sharing their insights but if we're going to fully gain acceptance (so that websites like IVV need not exist) then we need to have each others backs and cheer each others success, whatever that looks like.

Heleana is a force of nature. The founder of In Venus Veritas and The Petrolette, and a co-founder of Rising Sun Workshop. Heleana shares her love of vintage cars, riding motorcycles, and (not-so-secretly) dreams of flying planes and piloting a riva aquariva (a la Sophia Loren) very fast through the canals of Venice. Supportive and connected, community is her lifeblood, and she is as real as they come.

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PETROLETTES: Summer Sydney 2014

Introducing the first five Petrolettes of IVV. Five very different women, riders, bikes and adventurists but all commonly want to see more women on the road, loving life and living in the moment. Every fortnight IVV will be taking a deeper look at the lives of each of these women further learning why they ride and what they love about it. 

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PETROLETTES: Summer Sydney 2014
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SHELBY: Congruity

Shelby saw that there was a need in her home town of Denver Colorado to create a safe and fun environment for other women to experience riding. There were no feminist reasons for it, just the simple acknowledgment that women are more comfortable sharing the experience with other women… and so was born The Scarlet Headers; an all female social riding group in Denver.

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SHELBY: Congruity
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The Throttle Dolls

The emergence of all-women social groups (who aren't afraid of sharing their moto exploits) is not showing any signs of slowing down. Sydney locals The Throttle Dolls formalised their friendship-cum-riding posse less than eighteen months ago having been having a great time. IVV invited the Dolls to tell us, in their own words, the journey thus far and where it all started.  

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The Throttle Dolls
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IVV PETROLETTES: The Ride

On a sunny November morning in Sydney, IVV coordinated the first five Petrolettes to meet and ride together through Sydney. These ladies turned some heads! Heaps of fun hanging out with total babes talking gear, bikes and riding in the confidence of fellow femme riders. This was the first IVV ride... and definitely not the last.

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IVV PETROLETTES: The Ride
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Leticia Cline's List

Leticia is no stranger to In Venus Veritas: when I featured her story earlier this year, she was just building momentum in her return to motorcycling after a long hiatus. Since, Cline has reinvented herself to include her passion for motorcycling and community making. And with that somehow found the time to compile them all into a list you can find on her website, compiled based on location so you can find ladies near you.

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Leticia Cline's List