Female Moto Travelers (solo) list
 

Dear all,

my name is Gionata Nencini, 26, riding the world solo since 2005 on a transalp made in 1987.

One of my side project is a travelling portal which talk about mot adventures.

I met just few solo female riders and I'd like your help to list a nice bunch of them here, maybe full names or link to their blog, site, forums etc etc.

So far I met and heard of

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please feel free to help me and post here some other names and link.

Thanks all

Gionata Nencini

Don't forget Lois
 

Adding Lois to the list:

Lisa Botherstone
Angelique Hochlahner
Tiffany Coats Tiffany's blog | Tiffany Coates Travels the World
MotoAdventureGal

Lois (Lois on the Loose - Lois on the Loose )

thanks man, i'm checking her blog now.
cheers

Two more
 

Adding two more:

Miriam Orlandi (Italy)
Io Parto di Miriam Orlandi

Cecilia M. Rojas (Switzerland)
Fernweh Travels

Cheers from Lima, Perú !!

Cynthia Milton too.

Weymouth motorcycle duo plan to go around the world (From Dorset Echo)

Don't forget these 2, who gave a talk at Ripley.

world record owner: Benka Pulko
Benka Pulko - 1 Woman, 1 Motorcycle, 1 World

I'll be back on the RTW road in April, :clap: :clap: doing Europe, Africa and Asia in the foreseeable future, then Russia, Mongolia etc after that.

Website in signature.

Cheers

thanks Margaret, I wish i could camp in the wild sharing a bone fire with a hot rider like you....
but in 5 years, it never happened.
;-P

The definition of "Solo'
 

I'm amused at the use of the word 'solo'...for some it's someone traveling alone, for others two women traveling without a man. :innocent:

Any way you slice it, we are all so blessed to be following our dreams, especially as we travel through countries whose people's dreams may never be realized.

Thanks for all the links to other inspiring ladies' tales!

I got your feed on my g reader....

Heya,

Not a huge trip compared to most here but I spent 4 months solo round Europe last year, now saving for the next expedition...

Blog is www.horizonsunlimited.com/tstories/bennitt

Laura

Elspeth Beard and Pioneers. First Motorcycle - Theresa Wallach

I traveled for 10 months in 2008 solo on my wee xr250. I am about to set off again late this year for a much longer time. My website is currently getting made. So please come back when its finished!!

home

Thanks Danielle,

I added you on FB so that I can grab a photo of you and your bike to write this article.

Is going to be a post on my portal about the women riding the world (or part of it) solo.

I'd like your help in gathering here their full names, website links, one picture each, a map of the biggest journey they've done and some extra info and an embed video, if you like.

Thanks to everybody!

www.scrabblebiker.com

My name is Michelle Eisele and I live in Victoria BC. The blog is somewhat disorganized and not all about motorcycle travel. It includes a lot of bicycle travel and a bit of car travel with my girlfriend. But most of my travels are solo and have been for the last 25 years.

Unfortunately no blog site as yet but off to travel africa late 2010............travelled 'solo' many times before but nothing on bike :thumbup1:

Can't wait.......and i dont mind who i travel with as long as the good times roll and the beer flows :innocent:

LouButler (f650gs twin)

'normal is a failure of potential'

Not sure what i am supposed to do on this website as I am new to this, am on my own and want to travel but not travel alone...hope that makes sense!
Ange

Welcome to the site:welcome:

Try and get to a few meets, ask as many questions as you want, find out if anyone lives near to you for perhaps a meet-up and chat, and when you are ready to do a trip ask on the forums if anyone fancies joining you, all the best and enjoy!
:mchappy:

Jenny Morgan--took her Tenere to the US to ride the Trans America Trail and also competed in the Heroes and Legends rally: .: XT660.com - The #1 XT660 Resource :.

It appears that you have to be registered to use that link:thumbdown: I was registered and don't remember my log-in details:blushing:
and the site does look like it can resend your details via email:eek3:

I met a Japanese woman in Ushuaia, then later again on Ruta 40. She's on her second RTW trip, having missed a few sights on the first time around! This one included Mongolia, Russia, the Stans, and the east coast of Africa....so far. I'll not give her name, since I've not asked, but she's one of my favorite people met on the road to date.

I get the impression that there are dozens more, mostly unknown because they aren't sponsored, don't blog, or in other ways pass beneath our collective radar. Seems to me this is a good thing; the world remains full of surprises.

Mark

(from Sierra de la Ventana, where it has been surprisingly raining in torrents)

Annette Pearson is a HUBBer with amazing tales to tell:
Alaska to Argentina - Annette's Adventure

--Mike

What's her name, mark? or website?

Thanks

Ok girls and guys, here is a first draft of what my Adventure Motorcycling Handbook will talk about, in the Female Riders sections.

If I mispelled names or missed weblinks or forgottern anybody, please let me know.

I would also like somebody to autorize me to publish a couple of pictures (with names and credits in the caption) about one or two of theese female riders.---------- EDITED FOR SECURITY REASONS --------------Regards.

Gionata Nencini
Partireper.it: Il Portale del Viaggio Avventura

:Dcheers

Sorry, you're missing my point. I'm not giving her name. She can chime in if she pleases.

The whole concept of trolling on the internet for second and thirdhand lists of women who travel alone strikes me as more than a bit weird. Maybe I'm too sensitive....but are you planning to check with the actual women involved to find out whether they mind being used in this way to fill your book? Does this make anyone else uncomfortable?

Mark

It does when you think that other women would like to get in contact with somebody of the same gender which has actually travelled the world on a bike.
It does also prove that ride the world on a bike isn't purely a male experience and these women have proved it quiet clearly.

As men we might not feel it, but women often contact me in private to make the point where "it's easy for us guys to ride the world, but is not as easy for women (for safety reasons...)". Well I guess testimonial like the one i listed above can show guys and girls that everything is possible and that gender mustn't be a limit.

But I respect your sensitivity, if this make you feel more confortable.

Gionata Nencini

Hmmm ... good point.

I should have thought of that. And now that you have pointed it out, yes it does make me a little uncomfortable.

Gionata, Mark's point is we dont know who you are ... even if we did, we cant be sure of your intentions. As Mark points out, what this thread has done is to have collated the names of a lot of relatively vulnerable solo travelling women onto the internet in one place.

Thanks, Colebach. Sometimes I wonder whether (or to what extent) I'm just out of touch with the workings of the world.

Seems to me there is a big difference between someone who contacts an author or web forum and asks to be publicized and someone whose name and/or contact info is gathered by secondhand reports, then published.

Mark

(from hot hot hot central Paraguay)

Pardon me, but I still don't get the point of putting on a list name and links (public links) already public?

It would be a problem if somebody came here to ask for their home phones and addresses, but you all have simply replied to my question by posting here what the web offers.

I repeat myself: I don't get your point as there is plenty of anonimous male and female riders out here which simply chose not to share / tell / publish their travelling story, but those who do (and that accept donations, comments on blogs and photos) are exposed to everyone's attention. Mine as a writer and other's as trolls or whatever you define them.

Regards.

Gionata Nencini
Partireper.it: Il Portale del Viaggio Avventura

As I caught up with the various posts, I also had concerns about creating a published list of solo female riders unless you obtain their written permission.
No one here should give you the OK on their behalf.

I agree that whilst riding solo, it is more difficult for women to make contacts and there is an element of safety when in a foreign country. But advertising there is a bunch of women riding the world on their own, is surely putting their personal security at risk.....? JMHO

I am a member of a women's motorcycle club: [url=http://www.wimaworld.com/]WIMA
As I caught up with the various posts, I also had concerns about creating a published list of solo female riders unless you obtain their written permission.
No one here should give you the OK on their behalf.

I agree that whilst riding solo, it is more difficult for women to make contacts and there is an element of safety when in a foreign country. But advertising there is a bunch of women riding the world on their own, is surely putting their personal security at risk.....? JMHO

I am a member of a women's motorcycle club: http://www.wimaworld.com/ and believe there is a need for such support groups but I would be very careful how you publish this list and consider how the information could be abused (unfortunately a sad part of today's society).

Hi Phoenix,
might I ask you what could be the worst case scenario? I mean, what could possibly happen to these female travellers if the "wrong" persona found their list of name?

Regards

partireper, whoever you are:

You can argue and try to convince, but what you've just heard is that at least some people are made quite uncomfortable by what you're doing. You may not find this discomfort reasonable.....but you're you, and your position in the world is different from theirs.

Think about it. Is it your goal to serve these women by providing something they'll value? In that case, there should be no problem whatsoever securing permission from each and every one of them before publishing a list. If they're all in favor, you've lost nothing. But I think the responses you'd get to a query might surprise you.

There is a big difference between listing some books by women, or even links to their websites, and publishing a list headed "Women who motorcycle around the world alone."

Mark

(now whiling away the idle hours somewhere nondescript in Central Brazil)