I’ll be sure to check out Janet’s comments. I like a good debate, especially on a topic that is first hand to me.

I’ve been an avid supporter on several sites for beginning women riders. I think it takes a different motivation and a lot of encouragement for women to learn to ride and in choosing their first ride. Once they, or “we” are on the road, we are at that point empowered.

I’m empowered by the bike between my legs, the “nod” I get from my fellow biker at a red light and the road beneath me. I don’t need a group of women around me to feel this. Maybe that’s just me.

Daytona is my great escape every year. It comes at the perfect time for us northerners who are suffering from winter meltdown right about now! My goal is lots of pictures this year which I’ll post on FB as much as possible. Someday you gotta make it down there!

My opinion on this has been questioned & criticized in the past about my opposition of this. I think it’s a bad idea for women to segregate themselves in this manner, yet I feel the need to support the idea of HD Women Riders month because I *want* more women to get out there and ride, whatever the motivation.

And if they’re the kind of women who eat up taking part in a “women’s ride” then more power to them. I am not that kind of woman biker. Janet, over at Biker Chick News *is* and makes a rather good argument for it, if you’d like to hear from that perspective.

Either way, I hope you have a GREAT time in Daytona and know that I’ll be jealous that I’m not there as well!