Photos: Women who ride
Dressed in heavy leather jackets and gloves, long hair streaming from under their helmets, they straddle smoking black-and-chrome motorcycles, waiting for the signal. Female riders are a growing part of the motorcycling population, and are seen by manufacturers as a key demographic.
East Side Moto Babes founder Stacie London, right, rides through the Second Street tunnel into downtown Los Angeles during a group ride.
(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)Female riders are a growing part of the motorcycling population, and are seen by manufacturers as a key demographic.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)