I spent the week between Christmas and New Year in Portland making sure I made time to see my friends and family. Chris Herrin, one of my best buddies, and I got together for a day to hang out and play with the motorcycles at his place out in the boonies about 40 mins from Portland. It was a lot colder than expected (in the 20s) so after he taught me to do a burnout, he rode out to the street for a couple wheelies to keep the cabin fever at bay. Naturally, I busted out my DSLR to snap a pic of him against the glorious sunset.
He calls this lil green Kawasaki his burnout bike- as you can see from the rear wheel that’s got a big flat spot from burning rubber in his garage. Since Chris lives a ways out of town, it’s often a lot colder out there than in the metro area, and getting out of the house during winter for a real ride can be a bit difficult between the rain and ice of Portland winters. Hence the burning rubber and spontaneous wheelies.
You can follow Chris’ racing and riding adventures on instagram @chris_herrin.
Have fun wheelie photos of your own? Send em my way through the contact page!
Photographs by Alicia Mariah Elfving, copyright themotolady.com 2014.
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!
Posted on January 7, 2015 in Blog by Alicia Mariah Elfving