We had the opportunity for two of the powersports industry’s top community builders to talk shop at last year’s AIMExpo. Tigra, who was instrumental with the Riders Of Kawasaki community before she went to AMA to orchestrate a couple global women’s conferences, was helping Dealernews, NPDA and The Lilly group with their show efforts, when she had the opportunity to meet one of her heroes, Indian Motorcycle Ambassador and pioneering publisher, Porsche Taylor:
I have the awesome chance to speak with Porsche Taylor... Porsche, please introduce yourself.
Okay, I am Porsche Taylor, owner of Black Girls Ride magazine. We started our magazine in 2011. So this is our 11th year. We built quite a motorsports community of female riders.
What are you up to now? What are some of your current projects?
Wow, I'm excited. From a personal standpoint, I am an Indian Motorcycle Ambassador, and I also work with Polaris Slingshot. I do an educational series as Black Girls Ride across the nation in different locations where we educate women on long distance riding. Our goal is to have them ride outside of their comfort zone. We want them to be prepared… When you're prepared, there's less anxiety to ride. So that's been our focus.
We produce different events as well. We have our annual ride to New Orleans for the Essence Festival, where we take 300 women from all over the country to New Orleans, and it's the best party of the summer. And then we're also doing the Beautiful Bikers Conference, which is always the weekend before Thanksgiving. In 2022 it was in Long Beach, California.
Great. Is there more information I can get on the magazine and events?
Absolutely. You can get all the details for our events at www.BlackGirlsRide.com and then the Beautiful Bikers website will be revised soon.