Latest News


HARLEY-DAVIDSON SUPPORTS SUFFRAGISTS RIDE & DEALERSHIP EVENTS

  • Dealernews
  • Jul 08, 2021

 

Women's Motorcycle Tours welcomes Harley-Davidson as a major partner on the Suffragists Centennial Motorcycle Ride (SCMR2021). Harley-Davidson will be supporting the event with dealership events along the way, hosting the Centennial Riders at the 81st Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, offering a unique Museum experience and party in Milwaukee, and offering long-distance, rolling demo rides all the way from Milwaukee to Arlington, Virginia.

"Harley-Davidson has a very long history of supporting women motorcycle riders. Beginning with Effie and Avis Hotchkiss, the first two women to ride across the USA in a motorcycle sidecar rig in 1915," said Alisa Clickenger, Women's Motorcycle Tours Founder and Centennial Ride Event Producer. "Harley-Davidson has been a significant contributor to the growing number of women riders, and I am honored to be working in partnership with them on this ride and the conference.”

Like the Hotchkiss sisters, Clickenger will also be riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in the cross-country event. "So many female riders throughout motorcycling history have been associated with the Harley-Davidson brand,” she notes. “Vivian Bales, the first motorcycle cover girl, long-distance motorcycle rider and stunt rider in the 1920s-30s was a Harley-Davidson rider, as was Dot Robinson, the founder of the Motor Maids. Bessie Stringfield, the first African-American woman to complete a solo cross-country ride, also rode a Harley-Davidson.

“It's delightful that we'll be carrying on her tradition of long-distance motorcycle riding. My Centennial motorcycle events are always at the intersection of historical remembrance and modern celebration, and Harley-Davidson is the perfect partner for us to expand the narrative of bold and audacious women who paved the way for our modern women and our right to vote," claims Clickenger.

SCMR2021 is an AMA-sanctioned event celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment, women’s right to vote. In August of 2021, hundreds of female motorcycle riders will join the celebration in one of 13 cities across the U.S.A. The SCMR2021 is a non-political event celebrating the guiding principles of unity, community and freedom of the road. The SCMR2021 ends at the Women's Motorcycle Festival & Conference in Arlington, Virginia on August 19-22, 2021. Click here for more details:

https://centennialride.com/

« Return To The List

Comments:
Add New Comment
Name:  
Email:  
Website:
Title:  
Comment:

 

NP Auctions Ad 2

 

Bobcat

Become A Dealer for FIN GPS

Motorcycle Industry Jobs Logo

Buzz Media content marketing ad