No ‘back warmers’: More Filipinas hitting the road on two wheels

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The sisterhood has grown, encouraged and enabled by other women confidently handling bigger-displacement motorcycles.

Ever since Marianne Faithfull squeezed herself into a skin-tight black leather catsuit and hit the road on a Harley Davidson Electra Glide in the 1968 film “Naked Under Leather,” “The Girl on a Motorcycle”—which also happens to be the film’s alternative title—has been an iconic, if transgressive, image.

“I think social media has a lot to do with it,” says Gaki Azurin, better known to the 64,500-plus subscribers who follow her YouTube vlog as “GakiMoto.” “I always wanted to have a motorcycle, ever since I was little,” she told Lifestyle in 2016. At that time she was riding a KTM Duke 200, shuttling between three gigs: as a personal trainer, drummer for indie rockers Flying Ipis and “GakiMoto,” her start-up vlog on YouTube.

Now most motorcycle dealerships are happy to let her field test their top-of-the-line models costing seven figures.She’s also traded up a few times: Her current ride is a sweet BMW F900R. “It’s a fantastic bike,” she enthuses. “Women and men are completely different in general,” founding member Erika Fernandez told Lifestyle in 2017.

 

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