The time has left far behind, when women occupied the second seat on two wheelers. Today, they could be seen taking on the front seat of the giant, heavy engines and breaking the grounds.
Women bikers:
Genevieve Schmitt is a new name in this upcoming trend. Since her childhood days, she had great craze for breath-taking bikes.
In Ms. Schmitt’s words,
We are about a quarter of the way up the mountain. Women are kind of the transitional group as boomers leave the market and the industry tries to reach out to younger buyers. And I believe there are still thousands of women dreaming about getting motorcycles.
Ms. Ryan, mother of two children became owner of Harley-Davidson Lowrider in 2000 and presently, the milometer has 45,000 miles recorded on it. She’s been on a solo bike trip to the adjoining areas,
It has dramatically changed my life. If I’m around women who ride on the back, I’ll tell them they should drive themselves.
Darlene Davidson of McKinney, a project analyst for Cadbury Schweppes in Plano, has been driving motorcycles since she was a child in Canada and even bought one for cheap transportation after she graduated from college. Sharing her experience, she says,
I had to take a little hiatus when I had kids. It’s something I grew up with. It’s not an adrenaline thing. It’s not speed. I get a rush from being outside, from being close to the elements.
Right fit:
Harley Davidson the name itself suggests a man’s world. It’s not only because of the ‘bad guy biker reputation’ it has but cuz of its heavy and huge size. But now more and more women could be seen changing the gears of cruiser. Critics are of the view that this change is because of its ‘low to the ground’ height, which makes it easier for women to handle.
Similar is the case with Kawasaki, it has low seat height as well as three low-rider sport bikes.
Rising trend of women bikers:
Nearly, 10% of motorcyclists in the US are women witnessing one of the fastest-growing segments in the graying $9.7 billion motorcycle industry.
The budding trend is because of the growing empowerment of women and in the words of Jessica Prokup, representative of the (bikes) industry council ‘motorcycling today is more fashionable and hip than ever.’ While others say the rising trend is for the reason that the baby-boomer women have large amount of disposable income and more time on their hands as they are through with all the family raising stuff.
Whatever the reason could be but one thing is for sure, the trend is really suiting the manufactures as they are able to roll in huge cash by making more women friendly bikes by introducing custom designs that would suit the fairer sex.
Via: Dallasnews
