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?
Slovenian Motorcycling Women En Mass
Slovenian rider Eva Rupnik submitted photographs from their yearly motorcycle show and ride for motorcycling women.
“We come from Slovenia, the capital city is Ljubljana, with a population of 2,000,000 people. Every year we have a meeting motoristk (women riding bikes), this is already the sixth year.” They are not a female motorcycle club, she emphasizes, but that they’re a group of like minded women who come from all over Slovenia and abroad. They’re all positive people who have a similar motto, “Life becomes much better when you stop worrying about what others think of you.” Ain’t that the truth?
Watch Edi Gasperin’s video from the Motoristk event on youtube below-
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Posted on June 8, 2015 in Events, MotoLadies by Alicia Mariah Elfving