The nation’s oldest motorcycle club for women is holding its annual conference in Spokane this week. The Motor Maids were founded in 1940 to celebrate and promote motorcycle travel by women.
“They wanted to form a group of women who could ride a motorcycle and still be ladylike,” said Sue Mikicic, the club’s historian.
Mikicic is the keeper of a folding display with a handful of black and white photos.
“These are our original 51 members, our charter members. Most of the women who joined in the beginning were wives of dealers, motorcycle dealers,” she said…