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KDQ in the AMERICAS!

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KDQ in the AMERICAS!

PHOTO | KRISTEN LASSEN

Seen here on the back of a Honda with Izak Yee in Orlando

Seen here on the back of a Honda with Izak Yee in Orlando

Photographer (and all round legend) Kate Disher-Quill is currently on a solo adventure through the USA and Mexico. Readers will know her work well, it's ALL over this website... and so when she asked if there were any women she could capture for IVV while on her trip... I was like... ah... YES!!!! Trying to contain my excitement and not fill her trip with women was a challenge!

So far she has been having a blast! Meeting up with LA moto babe Lindsay Todd Merkle, hitting the dirt with Tara Henry. In Mexico she became an honorary member of Las Marias MC... and somehow lost her brunette tones to more superhero like grey/purple. 

Currently in Orlando Florida with IVV supporters and contributors Kristen Lassen and Leticia Cline before they head off on their Lost Latitudes road trip. Then there is The Scarlett Headers (yay!) and possibly more.

She's having a blast, capturing some incredible women and landscapes exclusively for IVV and possibly never coming back to Sydney.

 

Heleana is a force of nature. The founder of In Venus Veritas and The Petrolette, and a co-founder of Rising Sun Workshop. Heleana shares her love of vintage cars, riding motorcycles, and (not-so-secretly) dreams of flying planes and piloting a riva aquariva (a la Sophia Loren) very fast through the canals of Venice. Supportive and connected, community is her lifeblood, and she is as real as they come.

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IVV PETROLETTES: The Ride

On a sunny November morning in Sydney, IVV coordinated the first five Petrolettes to meet and ride together through Sydney. These ladies turned some heads! Heaps of fun hanging out with total babes talking gear, bikes and riding in the confidence of fellow femme riders. This was the first IVV ride... and definitely not the last.

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IVV PETROLETTES: The Ride
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VICTORIOUS: Sydney

Capping off a month of motorcycle events here in Sydney was VICTORIOUS, an exhibition of motorcycle inspired photographs hosted by Sol Invictus Motorcycle Co. Photographers exhibited included Cole Bennetts, Billy Zammit and (IVV contributors) Cam Elkins, Kate Disher-Quill and yours truly. The place was packed, and was really nice to see some images made for the interwebs get the attention they deserved, printed and hung on the white walls of M2 Gallery in Surry Hills.  

Petrolettes, Life + Style, Events, MotorcyclesHeleana Genaussol invictus, mercury, photography, exhibitionComment
VICTORIOUS: Sydney
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Women who Ride

While women on motorcycles are not a new phenomenon, they seem to be growing in popularity and social media has facilitated this. We're now more connected than ever and able to self publish our own lives. So why not cheer each other on? It's easy to forget the prejudice women have been subjected to in the past...

Community, Petrolettes, Life + Style, Riders, MotorcyclesHeleana Genauswomen who ride, motorcycles, custom culture, photography, ninetynineco, collaborationComment
Women who Ride
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Leticia Cline's List

Leticia is no stranger to In Venus Veritas: when I featured her story earlier this year, she was just building momentum in her return to motorcycling after a long hiatus. Since, Cline has reinvented herself to include her passion for motorcycling and community making. And with that somehow found the time to compile them all into a list you can find on her website, compiled based on location so you can find ladies near you.

Community, Petrolettes, Life + Style, Riders, MotorcyclesHeleana Genausdirectory, Leticia Cline, the lost latitudesComment
Leticia Cline's List