I’m so excited to announce the project that I’ve been working on for two years… a book all about badass motorcycling women! In the MotoLady’s Book of Women Who Ride you’ll meet 74 of the most influencial motorcyclists of the last century. Motorcycle heroes, trailblazers, and record-breakers like Jessi Combs, Shayna Texter, Laia Sanz, Gloria Tramontin-Struck, the Van Buren sisters, and more can be found inside the 184 pages of this hard cover book celebrating motorcycling women!
Nick DeWolf’s Motorcycle Photography
Nick DeWolf carried around multiple cameras for most of his life, cataloguing the events and views around him. Nick was a MIT graduate, engineer, entrepreneur, and photographer. He co-founded Teradyne in 1960, a Boston based company that manufactured automatic test equipment. Back then, automated equipment like this was a big deal. They didn’t exactly have super computers and google back then.
His son-in-law, Steve Lundeen, has archived his photo collection on flickr- with a total of over 77,000 scanned images. These are some of my favorites.
Above, Gerda Waigand, poses at the Grand Canyon with a 50cc Puch Moped on which she and her husband rode around the world (August 1958).
“Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance are vital in Vietnam. Innertubes survive 30 patchings!”
To peruse all 77,000+ images, head over to the Nick DeWolf flickr archives.
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Posted on November 14, 2014 in History, News & Features by Alicia Mariah Elfving