what's the real biker babe

The first thing that comes to mind for many, when they hear or see the
phrase “Biker Babe” is a vision of some 19 year old hard body in a
bikini posing alongside a $50 thousand dollar custom chopper.  While
there might actually be a handful of such women, the vast majority of
these biker chicks that have been created in our own minds have likely
not been any closer to a real motorcycle than a photo shoot much less
having actually ridden one.

Without a doubt the sexy little biker babe stereotype has become
synonymous with bike rallies and motorcycle promotions, both live and in
print.  Rarely a complaint is made when one of these pretty biker chicks
crosses our path and we have grown to expect a heavy presents of biker
babes at major bike events and shows.  Biker babes are great for dressing
up a featured bike in a scooter rag, holding a bike accessory in an
advertisement and they sure look good serving up the cold beverages at
bars and motorcycle rallies across the nation.  But even with these
lovely ladies being such an integral part of the motorcycle community, is
it fare to assimilate these ladies with the term “biker”.

Some would say that these pretty young things are anything but a biker
and rightly so, at lease from a literal sense, I mean, they don’t ride
right?  But is riding really all that makes a person a biker?  Others
might argue that even though these ladies may not ride, that it would be
hard to deny that they are part of the lifestyle.  Maybe we are simply
being narrow minded in our thinking that there can only be one type of
lady biker.  Why wouldn't these ladies, who immerse themselves into the
biker lifestyle even if just on the fringes, not be considered a biker?
Certainly lady bikers are quite different from the sexy little biker babe
that works as window dressing in a vendor booth as lady bikers due
actually ride and in some manner live the lifestyle instead of just
participating in it however, it would be difficult to deny that many of
this women we call biker babes, the ones that show up at bike events
every weekend and interact with motorcycle community regularly as well as
and the ones that do motorcycle related promotional work week after week,
are bikers in their own sense.

While we are so quick to place the biker babe label on the “cuteness”
of it all, rare is it to be found that men do not label their female
riding partner as a biker babe as she is in her own right.  Inside the
lifestyle, the biker babe label is not one of aesthetics, it is one of
the personal content.

There is no moral to this story but if we were to look outside the labels
we have created we would likely find a little bit of biker inside every
biker babe and without a doubt a biker babe inside every lady biker!