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Biker Chicz TV – Episode 1.1 Teaser
Produced by Blockhead City Entertainment and created by biker author Edward Winterhalder, “Biker Chicz” is a docu-reality TV series featuring the colorful, entertaining and engaging women who are members of an all-female motorcycle club known as the “East Coast Biker Chicks” (ECBC).
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Pepper Massey – Avant Garde Motorcycle Consultant
Pepper Massey’s contribution to the motorcycling community is impressive. Based in Sturgis, South Dakota, she was a key player in the town’s storied motorcycle rally for a number of years before setting out to run her own consulting firm, PM Consulting, which she founded in 2008.
She served as Director of the Sturgis Rally Department for two years and Executive Director of the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame for the four and a half years prior to that. She also put in a two and a half year stint as the Director of the National Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame and worked as Executive Coordinator for the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM) for eleven years.
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Lucky Belcamino and ECBC
East Coast Biker Chicks is an all female Motorcycle Club originating February 2003 in the Boston Ma. area now with members from MA, NH, CT, ME, VT, RI and PA.
We are very excited about announcing we have started the process to form individual state chapters. This new direction will prove us to be a well oiled machine going into the coming years. We welcome enthusiasts to come take a ride with us and become a “Chick For Life”. We are not prejudice to make or model of motorcycles and members must be 21 years or older.
Ashley Fiolek: Motocross Phenomenon – Say What?
Some women ride on the street; some ride off road. And then there are those brave souls who prefer to mix it up on the racetrack. In a sport that’s equated with noise – lots of it – two-time Women’s Motocross Association Champion Ashley Fiolek has been making quite a bit of noise both on the American and International motocross scene, literally and figuratively! But Fiolek hasn’t been paying any attention to the noise she’s making: she was born deaf in Dearborn Heights, Michigan on November 22,1990.
Despite her inability to hear, which one would assume to be a serious drawback for anyone operating a motorcycle on or off the street, Fiolek has proved to be a riding phenomenon without equals. Her charisma, talent, winning ways and total commitment to the sport – not too mention her good looks – has seen Fiolek become one of the biggest ambassadors for women’s motocross in the United States and abroad.
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Charlene Casey – SassyBiker
Charlene Casey has created a way for female bikers to feel stylish on a motorcycle – or as she likes to call it, “getting sassified.” She finds her inspiration and tools in crystals – Swarovski crystals.
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JoAnn Bortles
I can remember the first time anyone ever referred to me as a “biker chick.” It was 1993 and someone commented to the guy I was dating, “ I hear you’re going out with that biker chick.” Biker Chick? Me? Up that point, I had never thought of myself as a biker chick. Sure I rode motorcycles, and I had either been painting or welding on bikes since 1976 when I was 16 years old.
And back in the early 80’s I did look the part, fulltime sunglasses, leather wristbands, chain wallet, lots of black leather. I did look “tough.” And in those early years, my life revolved completely around motorcycles and muscle cars. I had but two pairs of jeans, any money I made, went to my motorcycle and hot rod projects.
In 1976, I had started welding and guys would bring me their broken bike parts to repair. I had always been a gearhead. I would sit for hours going through hot rod and bike magazines, studying the paintwork I saw.
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Women Bikers Are Alright By Me
Cris Summer Simmons
As a kid in my native Belgium back in the 1950s, I grew up around motorcycle riders – both men and women. To see a woman riding a motorcycle was not at all unusual and nobody gave it a second thought. Motorcycles, and its predecessor the bicycle, were a main source of transportation. In post World War II Belgium, cars were expensive and gasoline was expensive. (Not much has changed except that unions have ensured the working stiff earns enough money so he/she can afford – at least on credit – to buy a car.) But up to the mid-60s most people couldn’t afford the luxury of four wheels. Back in the ’50s there were still more bicycle riders on Belgian roads than anything else. But anybody who had a bit of a commute to work rode a motorcycle or moped.
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Life in the Fast Lane – A Family Affair
© 2010 By Edward Winterhalder and Wil De Clercq
(Excerpts from the upcoming book Biker Chicz of North America)
Mitchell, South Dakota’s Laura Klock is a wife, mom, business owner and a biker – the really fast kind. Legal, too! Laura is the kind of woman who is not afraid to try new things in life and meet challenges head-on. Taking up the dangerous sport of land speed racing on motorcycles,
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Go With The Flo
My name is Flo and I live on Vancouver Island. I purchased Motorman’s “Learn How to Ride the Easy Way” four years ago. I was enthralled about how Motorman taught and figured even I could learn how to ride at the age of 49.
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Leslie Porterfield
Foremost Insurance sponsored Leslie Porterfield (right) was accepted by Guinness World Records as the Fastest Woman in the World on a Motorcycle,
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