Jezebel: Motorcycles

Women Increasingly Buying Motorcycles, Starring in Freedom-Themed Montages

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:50:43 EDT

In this era of inside voices, Netflix Instant, and the infinite staying-in-excuses the Internet offers, some women are choosing instead to seek freedom and adventure outside, on the seat of a motorcycle. Yes, women are climbing onto hogs from coast to coast in record numbers, and not from the vantage point of sitting behind some dude who is driving them around; the number of female motorcycle owners increased 52% from 2003 to 2008. It's positively trendy to be badass! More »

See Lady Gaga As Mary Magdalene In New "Judas" Video

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:20:00 EDT

We were told that Lady Gaga's new video, "Judas," would be premiering on E! tonight. But wily one that she is, this afternoon she put five minutes of the 10-minute clip up on YouTube. What you'll see: Choppers. Leather jackets. Bandanas. Cornrows. A crown of thorns. Foot-washing. Norman Reedus from Boondock Saints. A large gun. A miracle? A stoning. Dancing! More thoughts tomorrow. More »

George Clooney Gets Vroom Vroomy

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:16:00 EST

[Hollywood, December 13. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

Rare Photographs Reveal The Ladies Who Hung Out With Hells Angels

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:48:00 EDT

Life.com just put up a never-seen before, unpublished Hells Angels gallery. And while the images (from 1965) of the guys are interesting, it's the women who will really catch your eye. More »

"I Feel Free, I Feel Empowered": More U.S. Women Own Motorcycles

Sadie Stein — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:40:00 EDT

The number of female motorcycle riders is growing. "This is a female population that doesn't want to ride on the back of the bike. These women have the financial resources to buy bikes of their own," says one seller. [Philly.com] More »

She's Crafty

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:45:00 EST

"I decided on making cozies for empowering objects which happened to be very hard, masculine, recognizable objects. The covers kind of softened them up and changed their determined roles," explains extreme knitter Teresa Honeywell. She was, of course, inspired by a toilet-paper cozy at a flea market. "It kind of made me a little sad to see someone's handmade craft discarded and being sold for pennies, but it mostly saddened me because it was such a bizarre and useless object. I pictured a sad housewife with nothing better to do then knit up a cozy for a roll of toilet paper. I knew then that I wanted to use that same lonely technique, and meaningless process, to cover up an object that I wouldn't ever need or have the opportunity to use again in my new role as a housewife." [Andew Sullivan] More »

Eric Dane Eyeballs Italian Stallion

Anna Holmes — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:10:00 EDT

Susan Carpenter, the "Throttle Jockey" at...

maria — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:40:00 EDT

Susan Carpenter, the "Throttle Jockey" at the LA Times, finds that riding motorcycles is a great way to get attention from guys, but up to a point. She says that when a woman rides a large bike (above 1,600 cc) men no longer perceive the female rider as being "sexy". While testing a Suzuki C109R (which weighs 787 pounds and 1,783 cc) Carpenter says she felt "over the top and masculine" and experienced less eye-contact from men on the road, supposedly because they thought she was "batting for the home team" because of her big bike. However, Carpenter enjoyed the larger motorcycle, saying it was "by far" better than a sex-change operation. [LA Times] More »

Motorcycle Manufacturers Hawk Hogs To Women

Anna Holmes — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:03:32 EDT

Motorcycle manufacturers like Harley-Davidson are attempting to appeal more to potential female customers by designing riding gear with rhinestones (ugh), creating motorcycles that sit lower to the ground, and hosting the cock-rocket equivalent of Tupperware parties. [NYTimes]