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Women In the Wind

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Get Code | Create Your Own!Twisted Sisters Chapter Tulsa Oklahoma---- This site is designed by members of the Twisted Sisters Chapter of Women in the Wind for all Women in the Wind members and other biker ladies. Please feel free to add yourself and others to the site. This should be a great way for all of the Women in the Wind members to get to know each other.Get Your Own! | View SlideshowThe Twisted Sisters pride themselves on acheiving the goals of Women in the Wind: to educate our members in motorcycle safety and maintenance, unite women motorcyclists with friends of common interest, and promote a positive image to the public of women on motorcycles.
We provide our members with safety information, rider training, and mentoring in riding and group riding.
We welcome all women riders to join us for rides, whether for the purpose of joining the chapter or just for fun. Women riders of all experience levels and on all types, makes, models, and sizes of bikes are invited to check us out. We also welcome the gentlemen to follow along on the rides. We think everyone should see the sights and enjoy the fun that we do.
We are not affiliated with any other club or organization besides Women in the Wind so we try to support other motorcycle clubs and riding associations as much as we can. We participate in community events all year round and ride in a variety of parades, toy runs, and poker runs, and attend rallies, other club related parties, and fundraisers. We are members of the Oklahoma Confederation of Clubs and take great pride in doing our part to support all our fellow bikers.
If you are in the Tulsa, OK, area and are interested riding with the Twisted Sisters Chapter or becoming a member, please send us a message and check out our website at: http://www.witwtwistedsisters.com/

My Interests


Promoting a positive image to the public of women on motorcycles, uniting women motorcyclists with friends of common interests, providing training and tips on safe motorcycle riding and basic motorcycle maintenance.

I'd like to meet:

All women motorcycle riders. If you would like to find a Women in the Wind chapter near you, please go to the National WITW website at: http://www.womeninthewind.org/Membership/index.html


Music:

Groovy Rally Tunes

Movies:

Easy Rider, Ghost Rider, Wild Hogs, Kamikaze Grils, Girl on a Motorcycle, Laura Croft Tomb Raider, Biker Boyz, Matrix Reloaded, UltraViolet, Torque, Ultraviolet, Kill Bill Vol. I, Tomorrow Never Dies, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Grind House: Planet Terror

Television:

O.C.C., Biker Build Off, LA Ink, Full Throttle

Books:

PlanetBiker, Shootin' the Breeze

Heroes:

Women and the Motorcycle Hall of Fame – A Selection www.motorcyclemuseum.org/index.asp
Adeline and Augusta VanBuren – Inducted 2002 – These “society girls” sisters rode coast to coast on Indian Power Plus motorcycles From July 4 to September 8, 1916, while becoming the first women to ride motorized vehicles to the summit of Pikes Peak along the way. They were arrested several times along the way for wearing men’s clothes (leathers). There is little evidence they continued riding although Augusta eventually became a pilot and flew with the 99s, a women’s flying group founded by Amelia Earhart.
Dot Robinson – Inducted 1998 – Dot Robinson was the first woman to win in an AMA national competition in 1940. At Laconia national in 1940, Robinson was approached by Linda Dugeau about starting a women’s riding organization and within a year the Motor Maids was established. Robinson began wearing her famous pink riding outfits in the 1950s. Robinson figured that she had totaled a million and a half miles in her years of riding.
Linda Dugeau – Inducted 2004 – Dugeau founded the Motor Maids, the oldest motorcycling organization for women in North America. In the 1930s, Dugeau began corresponding with female riders she read about in magazines, began writing dealerships, AMA clubs and fellow writers to see if there was interest in forming a women’s motorcycling organization. It took 3 years to locate 50 female riders, the Motor Maids were founded with 51 members in 1940 and were chartered by the AMA the following year. The Motor Maids began participating in AMA events and were known for their distinctive riding uniforms that always featured white gloves. Dugeau once covered 3500 miles in two weeks.
Bessie Stringfield – Inducted 2002 – Stringfield said, “When I was in high school I wanted a motorcycle and even though good girls didn’t ride motorcycles, I got one.” It was an Indian Scout and she was 16. Over the years, Stringfield owned 27 Harleys and said, “To me, a Harley is the only motorcycle ever made.” At 19, Stringfield began tossing a penny over a map and riding to wherever it landed. She married and divorced six times and her third husband asked her to keep his name because she’d made it famous. Stringfield once disguised herself as a man and won a flat track race but was denied the money when she took off her helmet. Stringfield founded the Iron Horse Motorcycle Club near Miami. Despite an enlarged heart (three times its normal size) and her doctor’s orders, she never stopped riding.
Theresa Wallach – Inducted 2003 – In 1935, Wallach and her friend, Florence Blenkiron, set off in a 600cc Panther with sidecar and trailer and rode from London to Cape Town, South Africa – with no roads, no back up and no compass. At one point the ladies had to push their rig 25 miles when the engine failed. Wallach wrote about the journey in the book “The Rugged Road.” After WWII, Wallach fulfilled a lifelong dream by touring the U.S., Canada, and Mexico for two-and-a-half years and covered 32,000 miles. She financed the trip working odd jobs along the way. In 1970, Wallach’s book, “Easy Motorcycle Riding” was published and became a top seller. In 1973, she sold her shop and moved to Phoenix to start the Easy Riding Academy. Wallach never owned a car and rode until vision problems forced her to give up her license at the age of 88.
Hazel Kolb (like “cob”) – Inducted 1998 – After her 2nd husband’s death in 1975, Kolb got the idea of doing a perimeter ride of the U.S. as a way to give back to motorcycling and honor his memory. In April of 1979, Kolb, at age 53, left Missouri for Maine alone on her Harley. Harley stepped up and helped Kolb with her ride and set up news interviews along the way, including appearances on “The Tonight Show” and “Good Morning America”. She rolled into California, fulfilling her childhood promise to her brother to ride a motorcycle to California. She wrote a book about her ride called “On the Perimeter” which was published in 1983.
Becky Brown – Inducted 2002 – Becky had been a motorcycle passenger but was curious about riding her own so in the mid-70s she asked a co-worker to teach her to ride. She borrowed the bikes of friends and then bought her own Honda. She eventually fell in love with Harleys and bought a 1973 XLCH 1000cc kick-start Sportster, which she eventually modified to a chopper. In the mid-1970s, Becky didn’t know of other women riders in her area but envied the brotherhood she saw in the male-dominated motorcycle clubs. She decided to place an ad in her local Toledo newspaper in the spring of 1979 and received 10 responses. The name Women in the Wind came about after a reported asked “What do I call you girls?” Though she is WITW’s founder, she has never served as its president because she did not want others to view the organization as something she started for her own vanity. WITW has given Becky the chance to travel abroad and she has visited WITW members in England and has also toured Greece on two wheels.

My Blog

Good Wheel Riders Toy Run 2007

We once again joined the Good Wheel Riders for their annual toy run around Catoosa, OK.  Usually a tad chilly, this year's weather was unseasonably warm and sunny.  This toy run gets bigger ...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:06:00 PST

Robber’s Cave

Skippy, Beaner & I met this morning and headed out on a ride.  The prime destination was Robber's Cave State Park, with the possible addition of Talimina, time permitting.  We didn't mak...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:00:00 PST

Chapter Mileage

We managed to get the paperwork finished for 8 of our members for Women in the Wind's Safe Mileage Program for 2007.  From November 1, 2006 through October 31, 2007, those 8 members rod...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:07:00 PST

United We Ride Poker Run

Let's see how I can do with a ride summary.First, we met at Route 66 at dawn and it was frigid. We hit the turnpike with 11 riders and the finest chase driver in the land. We paced ourselves as to kee...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:31:00 PST

Godzillas Fundraiser

We missed all of you that didn't get to attend Godzilla's fundraiser. We did have a good turnout though. In attendance yesterday were: Skippy, Scout, Beaner, Krackhead, Lana, Dana, Barney, Skeeter, Ch...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:55:00 PST

Nickname Decoder

We Twisted Sisters believe everyone deserves a nickname, whether they like it or not.  In fact, we like nicknames so much that sometimes people have more than one.  Here is a handy nickname ...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:54:00 PST

Grasshopper & Sprouts Ironbutt Quest

We had a series of small misfortunes and didn't make 2000 miles in 48 hours, but we did ride 2000 miles over the 3-day weekend. Sprout earned her Iron Butt membership when we rode 1100 miles the first...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:31:00 PST

The Long Ride Home from Eureka Springs

First, Grenade, Undertaker, Ducky and I stopped at the Twisted Sisters' Smokehouse, er, I mean the Smokehouse for breakfast and to meet up with all the early risers (where the hell did THOSE ladies co...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:18:00 PST

Eureka Springs Meetup with Khrome Cowgirls

Well here we go ladies.....the trip started off early for Rain Goddess and Skeeter. They headed out in the morning. Myself, Scout, Tazer, Grenade, DL, Undertaker, Sprout and Chopper all headed out ar...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:47:00 PST

2007 Barney Whorton Poker Run

Wow, what a great turnout!  The dog days of summer often find us scattered about as some ladies try to squeeze in vacations, get their kids ready for school, and it just gets too freakin' hot to ...
Posted by Women In the Wind on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:13:00 PST