Tag: #womenriders

  • Meet our new WIMA World officers

    I’m honoured to be able to introduce our new WIMA World officers:

    International President Zara Strange:

    Zara has served the past 3 years as International Vice-President and during this time she took sole responsibility for organising the agenda and minutes of the ICNP meetings. In addition, she organised all our old agenda records, minutes and other archived documents that my predecessor, Claudia Fehrer, handed over. It is all nice and tidy on WIMA’s cloud space, available to all National Presidents. Her contributions to our meetings and discussions, and her advice, have been invaluable.  Those who know Zara will know that she has a warm heart, a clear head, and is dedicated to WIMA and women’s motorcycling – it’s no surprise that she was recognised with the Ellen Pfeiffer Award a couple of years back. I know that she will lead us well and I’m excited about WIMA’s future! 

    International Vice-President Mihaela Hodivoianu:

    Mihaela is the founder of WIMA Romania, one of our younger divisions at only 3 years old, but already thriving, well-established and extremely active with get-togethers and projects running throughout the year. Mihaela has also dedicated a great length of time to the difficult task of updating our constitution. We are delighted to have such an energetic and skilled woman as IVP. 

    PR Officer Liv Seuring:

    Liv is known from her role as an admin in the WRWR, an achievement for which we awarded her honorary lifetime membership in WIMA. Among other things, she was working with PR and she has lots of ideas to take with her to her new role in WIMA. We are thrilled to have someone with her experience and skillset in our team! 

    PR Officer Léa Schaetzlé:

    Léa is one of our newer members and fully passionate about WIMA. She works with PR professionally and she is multi lingual – we look forward to seeing her working with Liv in what is a fast-moving and challenging area.

    Onwards and upwards,

    Åsa, former IP, now “just” a member 🙂

  • WIMA Norway in Straand

    WIMA Norway in Straand

    Straand hotel in Vrådal hosts a bike meet, where everything motorcycle related is in focus!

    Here, people in the motorcycle community, who are doing something exciting and interesting, get the opportunity to introduce themselves and their project.

    WIMA Norway gave a talk and participated in the debate this year, as last year. This time also with our own tent. It was fantastic that so many people stopped by and new women found us and joined our group. Great to chat with WIMA girls from all over the country! Especially; great that the t-shirts got legs to walk on, WIMA’s logo is on the move 🙂    !

    Straand hotell i Vrådal huser MC-folkets treff, hvor faglig innhold, prøvekjøring, hubriding o.l. er i fokus.

    Her får personer innen MC-miljøet, som holder på med noe spennende og interessant, muligheten til å presentere seg og sitt.

    WIMA holdt foredrag og deltok i debatten i år, som i fjor. Denne gangen også med eget telt. Fantastisk gøy at så mange var innom. Knallkjekt å få pratet med WIMA-jenter fra hele landet! Ikke minst; supert at t-skjortene fikk ben å gå på. Nå synes vi godt i terrenget, dere 🙂 !

    The WIMA stall – the t-shirts are popular, no doubt due to the cool brand new logo!

    WIMA had an opportunity to formally talk and get their message across to the audience. WIMA Norway is offering a broad activity calendar covering track days, first aid, gravel training, mechanical training etc. And they have established riding groups all over the country. A key to success it seems as they have now exceeded 300 members, and more are signing up.

    Not everyone stayed in the hotell, camping was also an option.

    Time to leave, Eli and brand new meber Barbro is packing their bikes.

  • Today we welcome four new divisions to our sisterhood: Canada, Italy, Mexico and Ukraine

    WIMA is continuing to grow and we form strong bonds with the connections we made through the WRWR. Today we welcome four new divisions to our sisterhood: Canada, Italy, Mexico and Ukraine!!!!  

     

    Maria O’Reilly, WRWR admin – for which she was awarded honorary lifetime membership in WIMA – is starting a new Canadian division of WIMA (the previous division never got up to speed). Uniting women riders in the vast country of Canada is no doubt a great challenge but we have great confidence that Maria is the right person for the role!

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    Rosaria, former WRWR ambassador and founder of Donne Special, is starting WIMA Italy and we are thrilled – it is about time WIMA gets properly established in Italy, one of the centres of motorcycling. We think Rosaria is the perfect woman for the job!

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    We are delighted to have Angelica on board with us and see the first ever WIMA division in Latin America open. Angelica has had her eye on WIMA for many years and now we are happy to finally welcome WIMA Mexico and hope to see many more countries in Central and South America to follow suit.

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    Alena, former WRWR ambassador, is trusted with the role of uniting the Ukraine women riders and building WIMA Ukraine. We have been communicating for quite a while and she has some great ideas up her sleeve.

    Welcome Maria, Rosaria, Angelica and Alena to our international sisterhood! We are delighted to have you with us – WIMA now forms a 37 division-strong organisation and we are growing every day!

     

  • WIMA France makes new memories in Barcelonette

    WIMA France makes new memories in Barcelonette

    WIMA France Sud-Est regional rally took place in Barcelonnette during the Alpes Aventure Motofestival from September 4 to 6, 2020. Reunions, new meetings and good times makes beautiful memories !!! 🤩😎😍 See you next year !!! ✌️🏍✌️

    Rallye régional Wima Sud-Est à Barcelonnette (04) lors de l’Alpes Aventure Motofestival du 4 au 6 septembre 2020 . Des retrouvailles , des nouvelles rencontres , des bons moments pour de beaux souvenirs !!! 🤩😎😍 A l’année prochaine !!! ✌️🏍✌️

    Thanks to Anne Jadin for words and photo.

  • WIMA GB and the Cream Tea Tour

    WIMA GB and the Cream Tea Tour

    In the UK, WIMA GB recently had its first event in many months, a socially distanced ride down the length of Cornwall. We called it the Cream Tea Tour as we finished at the aptly named Lands End. The sun was setting in the west over the Atlantic Ocean, giving us great views as we enjoyed a cream tea picnic. 15 riders took part, many travelled hundreds of miles to join in the fun.

    Photo and words by Tiffany Coates

  • Greetings from Wilnsdorf

    Greetings from Wilnsdorf

    Greetings from Wilnsdorf 🙋🏻‍♀️🌻☀️😎🏍

    In the most beautiful weather and with a little bit of sadness in the heart, some WIMA women arrived in Wilnsdorf. It’s just nice to see that at least a few girls managed to meet up. With distance and mask but with a lot of love ❤ Great that members could meet up for a day tour at least. 👍 The WIMA community is just great, also in difficult times 🥰😍

    Ganz herzliche Grüße aus Wilnsdorf 🙋🏻‍♀️🌻☀️😎🏍

    Bei schönstem Wetter und mit ein wenig Wehmut im Herzen sind einige Wimafrauen in Eigenregie nach Wilnsdorf angereist. Es ist einfach nur schön wenigstens ein paar Mädels zu sehen. Mit Abstand und Maske aber mit viel Herz ❤ Toll, dass auch Frauen nur für eine Tagestour vorbeikommen.👍Die Wima Community ist einfach spitze, auch in schwierigen Zeiten 🥰😍

     Thanks Andy, WIMA Germany for the photos and text!

  • Welcome WIMA Nepal!

    Welcome WIMA Nepal!

    We are proud to announce the establishment of WIMA Nepal and welcome the women riders of Nepal to our international sisterhood.

    Let us introduce the leaders of WIMA Nepal:

    Born in January 1997, Ms. Sunita Deshar is a well established motorcyclist. She pursued her motorcycling career in 2015 by engaging herself in various events like racing, riding and touring since then. She is also a safety instructor and has given various training on bike riding skills, safety management, emergency response to women riders.

    Winner of JK Tyre Biking Slalom Bangalore and 2nd Runner up of Women National Bike Riding Competition “Racenari 2017”, Ms. Deshar is also an active member of Women in Motorcycling and Nepal Motorcycling Federation. WIMA Nepal is very proud to have such adventure loving person as a Coordinator.

    Born in May 1994, Ms. Usmita Thapa is an active motorcyclist and a medical personnel by profession. She has been an active participant in various events organized by Women in Sports and Adventure. Ms. Thapa is a first aid and trauma handling trainer who has contributed a lot in the health and safety management field. She has been nominated for Secretary of WIMA Nepal.

    Ms. Sony Tandukar is an active motorcyclist and enthusiast member of Women in Motorcycling Team. She has been contributing to Women in Motorcycling related events since 2015. She will be working as a Treasurer in WIMA Nepal team.

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