Girls Gone Geek

It doesn't seem like it, but I'm a geek. A motorcycle riding, macbook-toting, die hard mac and all things tech, geek. But I guess many women who ride motorcycles are highly intelligent and technically oriented, smart individuals, right? ;)

At the beginning of Macworld 2 weeks ago, I went to this great event hosted by the Girls Gone Geek Academy. They're a cool group of women who love all things tech and podcast about it weekly. Just do a search for them on itunes and you'll find their feed. It's free! I was lucky enough to be interviewed by them at this event to tell all I could about my website, blog and passion for riding and gear.

Who knew that at a geeky event like Macworld I'd find a fellow sportbike enthusiast named Liana. As one of the producers of GirlsGoneGeek, she also rides! I was so excited to talk motos, tech and mac with her. What more could a girl ask for? (Oh yeah, one of these).

It just goes to show that no matter where you go, there's always a 'secret' motorcyclist hiding somewhere. Even if he/she doesn't appear to be someone you might think rides. I think that's the secret beauty of women riders. We're just everyday, average women who happen to ride motorcycles. I think that's where our story lies, isn't it?

Final Tshirt Design, For Real!

After getting a few quotes for shirts, I decided to go with this color scheme (Yeah for Lo-Fi Customs!).

Something about the charcoal gray background and the extra devilish look in her eyes made me pick this color scheme. I hope everyone will like it enough to buy one :)

Hopefully they'll be finished within 2-3 weeks at the most and I'll post when they're ready to sell. I'll be only doing a short run of ~50 of this design so if you like this one, let me know. I don't know if I'll ever bring this one back after they're all gone!

Final Tshirt Design and Bras.

Finally, I have my final design completed. After a little tweaking, and here she is! It'll probably be on a black tshirt, with a crew neck and hopefully an alternative apparel tee, which are even softer than american apparel (in my opinion).

I need to get a couple more quotes for screenprinting but hopefully they'll be done by mid-February.

On another random note, I recently went bra shopping at Nordstrom's last week (which, by the way, is the best place to shop for a bra!). I had no idea that my size had changed substantially in the past few years and ended up replacing my entire collection with 4 new, snug, properly fitted bras. Upon getting myself fitted for a new bra, I noticed several similarities to shopping for gear. I guess it's like getting ready for any athletic activity, right? Whether you're cycling, playing football, soccer or anything else where you have to completely change your outfit given the circumstances.

Apparently I was wearing a size to large in chest size and 2 sizes too small in cup size. I'm not going to reveal these numbers, but if you're a guy, just ask your woman friend what this means and she'll explain it to you. Basically, I wasn't wearing a small enough size, causing my straps to constantly fall down. It's a bit snugger than I'm used to, but after a few weeks, my bras will stretch and feel looser.

When you're spending 10-12 hours a day in something like a bra, you really want it to fit perfectly. And it definitely takes seeing someone that knows what they're talking about, in terms of proper fit. Knowing what does and doesn't work for your body is so important and can make such a huge

Happy New Year!

Hope you were able to squeeze in a New Year's ride for 2008. We took a lovely ride through Napa, Calistoga and Sonoma. It was great to get out and ride after an almost 2 week hiatus.

I hope to work even harder on my site this year. I feel like I haven't accomplished as much as I had hoped when I first started this last April. A few things I have in the works:

- videos (interviews) focusing on women and riding. Basically I'm talking to your average, everyday female rider. We're everywhere and we do everything from run small businesses unrelated to riding (*gasp*), have regular jobs like everyone else. I think there's always a unique story to tell behind every woman who rides and I'm in the process of telling it. I posted my most recent (and best so far, I think) video of a wonderful friend of mine by the name of Saskia Pardo who co-owns MotoJava (where we have purchased 3 out of 4 of the bikes we've owned so far!). Her story is unique as well and I was so honored that she let me capture it on film. I plan to do more of these this year as well, for fun as well as improving my video production skills.

- tshirts. I hope to have tshirts done by Feb 1st if possible. It took me a while to figure out what brand of tshirt I want to use, but I finally found what I was looking for.

-more videos. I plan to take my camera out this summer to some women's trackdays and possibly Femmoto to interview more women!

I have updated my Getting Started page with some tips when you're shopping for gear, if you've never shopped before! If you're not lucky enough to live somewhere that has a knowledgeable staff when it comes to women's gear, then I hope this helps.