Salt Lake City-based motorcycle collective The Litas gives women and nonbinary riders confidence, community

Ashley Alvey pulls on leather gloves before getting on her motorcycle for a ride up Emigration Canyon with The Litas, a Utah-founded motorcycle collective for women and nonbinary people, May 12, 2023.They don’t wear large back patches. They don’t have a president. They don’t even call themselves a motorcycle club. But branches of The Litas, a Salt Lake City-founded motorcycle collective for women and nonbinary people, can now be found around the world in about 30 countries.

“I wanted it to be somewhere where you didn’t have to try and be cool,” she said. “And you didn’t have to know anything. It didn’t matter. It was like, we’re just these humans coming together to connect. And we both happen to love motorcycles. And because of that, we can enjoy each other’s company and have fun.”

Casey said, “I do think that for a lot of people, there is that kind of patriarchal wall in the way, of ‘I am not supposed to be on a motorcycle because it’s dangerous, and it’s for men, and it’s not something that women or “ladies” do.’” When Manch walked into the bar, she told her friends that she had locked up her bike down the street, and “both of them thought for some strange reason that I meant motorcycle,” she said.“That was the minute the lightbulb went on,” she said, “that I could ride a motorcycle. It never even crossed my mind that that was something I was capable [of] or that I would do.”

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