Ahh. The attractiveness of
motorcycles to women ...
Being a woman, and having ridden motorcycles for over 12 years now, I have to agree that bikes are very sexy. More
sexy than street, however, is
dirt.
With my
250 XR under me, I can go as far as I want, as fast as I want. The
adrenaline rush can be
surreal -- sliding around switchback corners with 1500-foot drops, flying off washed-out sections of
desert at 50 mph, powering up rivers through rocks and slime and mud, my heart racing, palms sweating, muscles tightening, fingers clenching, trying not to scream ...
Whew.
Riding not only empowers me to do things I could not otherwise do, lets me see places I could not otherwise see, feel the
rush I would not otherwise feel ... It allows me to spend hours and hours
alone in
nature, alone in my helmet, thinking about how wonderful it is to be
alive.