Clara Wagner is often lauded as the first woman to race a motorcycle—or at least the first documented woman to do so, as captured by many newspapers in 1910. But is she?
Clara Wagner: The First Woman to Race Motorcycles?
Liz Horton aka DeathRodDixie
Liz riding her XS bobber
Liz Horton is 31 years old, and works as a Surgical Laser rep, and a bad ass motorcycle riding lady in her spare time. A New York native, she now lives in Denver, Colorado.
She attended the Babes Ride Out Joshua Tree camping weekend, but with hundreds of women, I didn’t run into her. However! She and Wes from Threepence flew into LA this weekend to attend the flat track races at Del Mar, and the Quality Control helmet show and motolady four year anniversary party. She was incredibly sweet, super intelligent, tall and beautiful. It was a pleasure to finally meet her.
As for being a Surgical Laser Rep- if you’re curious what that entails (like I was)… it means she works in Operating Rooms all over Colorado teaching Surgeons how to use different lasers. Liz has been riding about two years- she fell in love with her hardtail XS650 as soon as she laid eyes on it, and never looked back.
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- Ronin Motorworks
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- XS Bobber
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- Babes Ride Out
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- Del Mar Flattrack
Follow Liz on instagram @deathroddixie.
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Posted on January 22, 2015 in MotoLadies by Alicia Mariah Elfving
She got to ride a Ronin – color me jealous.