Danica lives in rural UK and is the newest member of the IVV family. After being diagnosed with chronic headaches, without a cause or cure, Danica's Honda CB125 has become a source of hope and freedom in a life defined by physical pain. Her quirky and honest accounts of her experiences will be featured here regularly as she strips apart her CB125 through the winter to get her ready to ride again, in all its cafe racer glory.
Adventure. We all want it in our lives. We day dream about leaving it all behind for a simpler life. We want to see new things, be new people. For Lindsay she made a conscious choice to make sure life is one big adventure, everyday. That means saying “yes” to life, turning the everyday into adventures and her motorcycle is a conduit to that lifestyle choice.
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. So when she asked if there were any women she could capture for IVV while on her trip... trying to contain my excitement and not fill her trip with women was a challenge!
For those of us who lived an observed life, we often draw many lessons from life on the road into life in general. IVV picked up this great article by Kristen Lassen who shares four essential motorcycling tips from her military father, beautifully laced into larger life lessons found by a girl navigating her way through life while strengthening a relationship with her hero.
Burn to shine. Diamonds start as coal. The light is darkest just before the dawn..... They’re common inspirational quotes used over and over the world over to remind us, that pushing through our hardest moments will make us better, beautiful and visible to more people. For Aileen, The Moto Quest is the conduit that got her through the difficult parts and into the person she is now... open, positive, grateful and free.
Kinga Tanajewska is the first Australian to be featured on Global Women Who Ride and upon seeing her featured I contacted her immediately and was thrilled with the woman on the other end of the phone. Kinga's pre and post communist Poland upbringing was punctuated by solo adventures out of the country, an existence that motorcycling played a large part in and reflected in her decision to travel around Australia, alone.
Zaya and Geordie met in Siberia on the Ice Run where they braved the sub-zero temperatures in Urals together. Geordie is from the small town of Dungog in New South Wales where we shot most of Zaya's portrait series, his mother Nancy is a gasoline nut and uses their 100cc brappy Yamaha to run the dogs (even after both hips and knees were reconstructed!). It was a fun weekend away with these two, both suffering chest infections, but moods always high and up for a ride.
Watching these five Parisienne women travel the Himalayas on their Royal Enfield's was pretty exciting. They travelled narrow, unforgiving roads with shear drops, gravel and dirt, camps and altitude sickness all with an effortlessness of style as only the French can do. Since returning to Paris they've been working very hard to get a film produced of their journey and this if the first of the 3 part film...
A snapshot of a little getaway no so far from home. Most days involved a quad bike, gumboots and my camera to explore country I thought I knew really well. Freedom really is being able to be yourself, explore, dream, set your own schedule and take the time to see what's right in front of you. This place is where Adrian was raised and is instrumental to him being the resilient, dreaming, creative and strong gentleman he is today.
