The sisters decided to ride coast to coast, from New York City to San Francisco, as a demonstration that women could serve as dispatch riders as well as any man. This at a time when female motorcyclists weren’t exactly unheard of but were still rare enough that only a decade before, the magazine Motorcycle Illustrated ran a headline that read, simply: “Detroit Has a Female Motorcyclist.” As in one. In all of Detroit.
The Van Buren Sisters Were Tough-As-Nails Suffragist Moto Pioneers – Adventure Journal – July 4, 2019
The post The Van Buren Sisters Were Tough-As-Nails Suffragist Moto Pioneers – Adventure Journal appeared first on Motorcycle Philippines.