The 2008 Motorcycle Bloggers International Choice Awards are under way and accepting nominations! So, check out the site, view all of the categories and get to nominating! The nomination period ends on February 10th. Yours truly has been nominated for “Women riders booster of the year“-how cool is THAT? But already the competition is tough. [...]
‘Sup dudes?! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season and got lots of shiny things to bolt onto their big, metal babies. Now that all of the holiday madness has passed, we cold weather climate dwellers have a nice, long stretch of months to lament the fact that it’s still too cold to ride [...]
Lately I’ve had a bit of an obsession with the Steampunk movement. What the heck is that? you may be wondering. :Steampunk: Definition: a genre of science fiction set in Victorian times when steam was the main source of machine power. (You can learn more at wikipedia.) Artists have been experimenting with steampunk art for [...]
Thank you to Gabrielle Faust from Eternal Vigilance™ for giving the Community Blogger Award to Rippin-Kitten.com. The Community Blog Award celebrates people who reach out and makes the blogger community a better one. It also underlines the importance of a blog’s readership community, one of the most rewarding parts about blogging. It’s the people that [...]
Here’s a clip of another inspiring woman, Sasha Mullins from the 2003 Discovery Channel documentary “Motorcycle Women.” Sasha has been busy writing books and making music with her band Motoroadeo. P.S. Rippin-Kitten.com is mentioned in the latest (and fabulous) blog post by GO! Smell the Flowers! So, a big thanks and many flowers to them!
The latest contest from Harley-Davidson got me thinking: who are some female riders who have inspired me? When I decided to get my motorcycle license I didn’t have a female motorcycle “mentor” so to speak. I hung out with a lot of guys that ride and spent plenty of time on the back. I watched [...]
I was looking forward to riding down to Cape Cod for multiple personal reasons and because I was finally going to take the Vulcan out for a good, long ride. The weather was hot-the thermometer read 91 degrees and the sun was blazing. From Salem to Provincetown, according to Google, is 141 miles. Taking some [...]
I found this video of Brigitte Bardot a few months ago when I was looking for motorcycle videos to post on Tuesdays. I thought it was cute and campy, and let’s face it, who wouldn’t mind watching beautiful Brigitte singing in French around a shiny motorcycle? Well, apparently I wasn’t the only one: Cyril Huze [...]
I just read an article about a guy who made a monocycle and it reminded me of a TV show I saw, I think it was a Biker Build-off. Billy Lane, who some of you may be familiar with, is a custom bike builder out of Melborne, Florida. He also has a mechanical engineering degree [...]
Lady Biker magazine is a new quarterly magazine based out of the UK. It’s geared towards ladies who love all aspects of motorcycling, whether they ride their own or like to be passengers. The summer 2007 issue is out now and available world-wide. There is an accompanying website, too.It’s a bit light on information, has [...]