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Lockdown check-ins. Kojii Helnwein
We're checking in with our moto friends across the globe to see how they're holding up during the pandemic. First up is multitalented Motowitch founder, writer and podcast host, Kojii Helnwein.
Lockdown check-ins. Nina Kaplan
We're checking in with our moto friends across the globe to see how they're holding up during the pandemic. Horse-enthusiast and Harley-rider Nina Kaplan is currently eight months pregnant and has just relocated to NorCal.
Amy Miles. Rider, writer, sparkle enthusiast .
LONDON – Get to know one of Hairpin's resident writer/ editors, Amy Miles, with a lightning quick 20 questions about her place in the world of all things motorcycle.
Sheila's Shakdown by Netty
Gals trying to eat sausages off strings while riding. Checkout a short but sharp selection of sweet pics from the 2020 Sheila's Shakedown, shot by none other than Netty Eldridge.
Super Women: heroines for modern times
The collaboration between Super Women founders Georgie Rogers and Alice Smith, is one set to inspire, as well as nurture and develop creative female talent.
AUS – Dirt Daze Weekend photos!
AUS – One of our favourite moto photographers, Annette Eldridge also known as Netty sent us these epic pics from Dirt Daze Weekend, a sweet little Aussie moto festy back in April. Finally, Australia is starting to warm up and moto shenanigans are on the cards again...
Petrolettes Festival 2019 - Photo essay
GERMANY — Hairpin's fave Berlin based photographer Alice Connew attended Petrolettes Festival, a women's moto utopia, back in late July 2019 and shot a whole raft of beautiful images that we just can't stop looking at
Women Riders World Relay — The Victoria leg in pictures
AUSTRALIA — Photographer Melissa Butters braved the nearly zero degree temperatures and met up for the Australian leg of the Women Riders World Relay – The Worlds Largest Motorcycle Relay – aboard her trusty Yamaha SR, with camera in hand.
From London to Istanbul on Two Profoundly Shit Little Bikes
UK — “I would not say they’re beginner's bikes, they will try to kill you and they have a tendency to wheelie”
Meet the crew – Annelise Sealy
LONDON – Attend any bike-related event in East London and the chances of running into marketing extraordinaire and motorcycle nut Annelise, and either her 54 Triumph Tiger Bobber or 2016 Triumph Scrambler, are off the charts.
A few super women
Both experienced broadcasters, Georgie Rogers and Alice Smith decided not enough was being done to close the gender gap in the media, so they’ve taken matters into their own hands with their new platform, Super Women.
Petrolettes. International Female Ride Day in pictures
GERMANY – Petrolettes, they’re opening up a male-dominated industry and firing up female spirits by creating a supportive and open community where women can discover and develop their passion for motorcycles.
A taste of victory
CANADA: Little Victories is an all-women’s bike group that’s rad three times over. They teach women to ride, they run wrenching workshops and social nights, and they’re working on a master plan to introduce women’s dirt bike weekends – all for free.
A little pick me up
Caylee Hankins. Photographer, racer, motorcycle enthusiast caught up with us for a chat about racing, riding, crashing and a long motorcycle trip through Southeast Asia with barely any riding experience.
Sheilas Shakedown 2019 in pictures
Photographer Melissa Butters shows us what a female only biker party outside of Melbourne looks like for the second year running.
Remembering the 2018 Malle Mile
The sun was hazy. The air thick with dust. The flag drops and the small but attentive crowd roars. Wheels spin and vanish in a cloud of ochre dust and engine smoke. This was the 2018 Malle Mile.
Riding the PCH1 – Los Angeles to San Francisco
The legendary Pacific Coast Highway, California’s stunning coastline from San Diego to San Francisco. For most bikers, it's up there among ‘the unforgettable rides to complete before…’ well, you know...
Nina in the wild
When our friend and Instagram female biker sensation Nina Kaplan got in touch a little while back to say that she and some friends had made a video that shows her riding the wide open spaces around the area near her home in LA, we jumped at the chance to post said video on Hairpin!
Celebrating Women Who Ride, 2018 - London
Holly Richardson and Corrina Milner dreamt up the idea for a women’s ride-out and photoshoot over a glass of wine a while back. One Saturday afternoon in London the girls, their gang of new friends and some pro photographers made the mission happen.
Gentleman’s ride 2018. London.
Like a giant, cancer-crushing avalanche, the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride continues to grow year-on-year and raise more and more money for both men’s mental health and prostate cancer research. We went along to the London event with a camera and captured some snappy dressers.
Tales from South America - Egle Gerulaityte
UK — South America is so much more than just an exotic destination. Indigenous Quechua women are discovering feminism, Andean shamans are falling in love with motorcycling, contemporary jazz is taking over Colombia and human rights activism is sweeping across Argentina.
883 or nothing. Gabriella Montrose
UK — When you’re thinking about getting a motorcycle most people in the know will tell you to start off small and take it easy, which is exactly what Gabriella Montrose didn’t do.
Babes, Bikes, Beards — for the ladies, but guys can come too
Boston — AL and Chris became firm friends, good things were bound to happen. They recently launched B3 – Babes, Bikes, Beards – a bike night series that is bringing the Boston moto community together
Dirtquake VII — Ladies class not such a classy move?
UK — Dirtquake, a flat track race day, is one of a string of motorcycle events in Europe in which unlikely racers and unlikely bikes are encouraged to sign up and give the usually elite world of motorsport a test drive.
Camp VC 2018 - Tale of a new addiction
UK — To corrupt her perception that only overweight old men with sunburnt necks ride motorbikes, we sent Jess Murphy to this year’s Camp VC in Wales.
Just a perfect day
UK - Slovakian-Greek artist and model Dominika Grnova stopped her custom Ducati Scrambler just long enough to chat with Hairpin Journal’s Neil Young.
The Café Racer Cup 2018
UK — Somewhere near Canterbury in the UK, the first annual Café Racer Cup, put on by Bike Shed at Lydden Hill raceway, was held. Hairpin made the journey down to see what was going on and to meet some of the women we assumed would be there to race.
Assembly London 2018
UK — Covering Assembly London 2018, maybe the biggest chopper show in Europe, for a website/ magazine based around women's motorcycle culture seemed, at the outset at least, like a pretty daunting task. It's a dude heavy culture for both audience and participants...
Summer of Love
USA — When Kate McCaw’s mother passed away, she knew she had to make the journey to Babes Ride Out East Coast, USA 2018.
Wise words from Eagle Rock
USA — I have a series of extremely risk-averse hobbies - knitting, baking, avoiding high speeds at all costs - so I might seem like an unlikely person to interview the inimitable moto babe Nina Kaplan - Harley enthusiast and lifelong rider.
London Bike Shed 2018
UK - Custom bikes, craft beer, music, art, photography, fashion, tattoos — you couldn’t have kept us away from London Bike Shed 2018 if you’d tried. Not that you would, eh.
Notes on being a boss bitch
USA — We all have our heroes, but there’s something different about the influential women of the motorcycle industry. Mix brains, guts and a touch of badass-ery and you’ve got some of the strongest, wildest women out there carving their own niche in the motorcycle industry.
The faces of Camp VC
UK — The self proclaimed Vicious Cunts (it's what VC stands for, you know) have, in an almost ironic turn of events, ended up being some of the most helpful, fun and encouraging bikers you'll meet.
Freedom and “F**k YES!”: An interview with @Tankgrrrl
NEW ZEALAND — After quitting her job in the capital and moving back to Hawke’s Bay, Amy is saving for her world motorcycling adventure.