"Grandma was a motorcycle courier"

"During the London Blitz, Grandma was a motorcycle courier working for the Ministry of Information" Via:jrjenks blog.

The art of Graham Corcoran.

Ah, blogger comes through again, this time a a nice piece of art from Graham Corcoran-a freelance illustrator, be sure to check out the rest of his drawings at modern whimsy.

Youtube: Indian women riders.

Thanks to Helmet Hair for the great link!

San Francisco opens the first motorcycle workshop for women.

Happy girl photo from urban Moto

From sf.metblogs:

Now the time to register for Lisa Duke's superlative motorcycle workshop -- that is, if you're a girl. This is the CCSF's first-ever motorcycle workshop for women, where 13 female students get a hands-on sampling of the motorcycle program offered at CCSF. Lisa Duke already has quite a following for her get-your-hands-dirty workshops where students take apart motorcyles and fix problems on their own bikes; this is a great way to learn tune-ups, troubleshooting, systems overviews and to work with other students solving different bike problems (or just watch). There are a lot of kick-ass female bike mechanics in town, like Werkstatt owner and mechanic Jennifer Bromme, superbike maven and owner of Mission Motorcycles Wendy Epstein and Lisa Duke. But on a recent trip to a mechanic's convention, Duke would up being the only woman in a room full of 200 men... and thus the idea for this workshop was hatched!

The holy Trinity.

Wiki:

Trinity is the main female fictional character in The Matrix universe, played by actress Carrie-Anne Moss in the films The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, Enter The Matrix, and The Matrix Revolutions and in the film segments of The Matrix: Path of Neo-The character's name is derived from the name given to the triune Godhead in Christianity.


Trinity was the first officer on the Nebuchadnezzar, a Zion hovercraft commanded by Morpheus. Her "birth" name as a human living inside the Matrix is unknown. However, she only briefly and vaguely refers to her previous job as an accountant during the first Matrix movie. While inside the Matrix, Trinity had made herself as a local legend in the illusory hacking community of humans living in the Matrix for hacking into the Internal Revenue Service database. Based on Neo's recollection on first meeting Trinity, as well as information from "A Detective Story", an animated short film from The Animatrix, most people make the mistake of assuming someone of Trinity's reputation as being a man.

Flashy wallpaper from starwallpapers

In real life, Carrie-Anne had to overcome her fear of riding for the second Matrix Film –The Matrix Reloaded. Practicing for months on smaller bikes before dominating the bigger, more aggressive Ducati. The more serious and dangerous riding was performed well known Stuntwoman Debbie Evans.

A must for your desktop (or shrine) Trinity on her Ducati statue from Hot movie props

With the release of the final Matrix film Ducati produced a limited edition Ducati 998. A literal copy of Trinitys green bike in the film- but only allowed pretty women in black latex jumpers to buy them....