chocmintz, I hear you loud and clear! I don't have a curvy aft, the armored jacket I always wear hides the girls, and the full-face has a tinted visor so I've been blatantly mistaken for one of the guys twice now (c'mon, how many guys would have heart stickers all over their helmet?!). Though I admit it kinda hurts when it happens, lol, it's not such a bad thing; I figure it leaves me less a target from thugs who might think me an easy victim if they knew I was a girl. :]

The Harlot and I get lots of looks. She's black and drips chrome. I'm tall, blonde and booby and almost 50. Do I like the attention? You bet your drawers I do.

wish my gal would learn to ride

I like it when the "elderly" women come up to me and comment how cool they think it is that I ride a motorcycle. They then begin to tell me their adventures of being an independent women when they were growing up or to say they wished they had tried different things when they were younger. I like talking to the older (than me) generation, they have so much to offer. But then again when I'm at the race track and they are looking for the "Racing Grandma" I often get smiffed looks then they just walk away. So I don't look like your typical grandma........yet.

 I am really enjoying the post on this discussion.  I have never won the Miss America title nor have I appeared on Extreme Make Over.  I am a decent looking woman that can mix and mingle at a black tie in an evening gown, or fill out a pair of jeans and a tank top where they need to be filled.  For a woman in smelling distance of 50, I still got it.  When I am on my Harlot, I am Miss UNIVERSE riding my chariot with class and style.  Call me a girlie girl, but all my Harley clothes match my Harlot and dang.....WE LOOK GOOD.

women riding their own bikes is staight up HOT! and i say that with respect!!! my wife just started riding her own- and i love it!

I love riding my own and I really enjoy taking solo distance trips. The most attention I get when I'm on one of my 'adventures' is from older people who want to come up and talk to the "biker girl" (Ha, I'm a few months shy of 50 and I'm a "girl" LOL). The conversation usually starts with them telling me how brave I am and then ends with the wife pulling me aside and telling me to be careful. There are always jerks out there but, by and large, I have met some awesome people on the road!! (And yes, I do get the smiles and comments from guys - and no, I don't mind at all!)

i am a pretty modest person, so i don't like the attention all that much. I do HATE when i am gearing up, having some punk guy watching me... now if a nice lookin' biker was watching me, that'd be a different story!

LOL Phoenix.  I don't care for the punks either.  It is especially annoying when I have all my gear on and some moron asks, "Do you ride?"  I just say "No, I fall down a lot and my doctor told me I had to wear this."

Lol DeuceRider - I say 'No I'm waiting for a bus' - that usually shuts em up quick

It's one thing to get attention from the guys.
But, its a whole different feeling when you see a little girl in the backseat of her parents car pointing at you. I remember when I was 10 or so and I saw a lady on a Harley at a stoplight. That was like the coolest thing I had ever seen in my whole 10 years of life. I wanted to be just like her!

true very true

My biggest supporter/helper is my "old school" neighbor - he's in his late 60's, foul mouthed, cranky and been riding forever and a day.  He loves to piss off our neighbors by revving his bike, then shutting it off and going inside - waiting a few hours and repeating.  

He's definitely got his mindset - and it doesn't include women riding their own.  I nearly laughed one day when he was talking to another friend of ours and announced that "women don't belong on the front of bikes, they belong on the back" - while I was standing there next to them... apparently, I'm now one of the guys.  He also talked about how he won't ride with women... but he rides all the time with me and he's the first one to come and help me when I'm working on the bike (usually with a bunch of inaccurate advice, but he's honestly trying to help). 

I love that... I always make sure to give them a smile, a wink, and a thumb's up to reinforce the positiveness of a woman on her own bike.  

Well when I made my first post on this topic I wasn't a rider. Now I have an entire riding season under my butt so I have a new opinion. Like any girl I do try to keep myself looking pretty and do like it if a man notices. However once in a while I get a little nervous, especially being a new rifer, when a guy stays even with me in a car and gives me a wink or smile. Again, normally that would flatter me, but it kind of scares me to have a car riding right next to me like that.

One Sunday when my wife started riding her Sportster, we pulled into Cooks Corner's and she took a turn a little tight and lost her balance and started to fall. Needless to say, she or her bike never hit the ground. Before she could blink and I could stop my bike, at least eight guys grabbed her and her bike and straightened both up and dusted her off. If it had been me, I'd still be picking the gravel out of my forehead ... it's good to be a woman on a bike and even better to be married to one. ;-{)>>

I've found that extra mystique with female riders has interested people of all ages, male and female, especially when I ride to work in my scrubs. The old people and their families get a big kick and brag that their nurse rides a Harley.

I've been riding for six years now and I love it! Although I ride a big bike, it depends on the time of year, most guys think I'm a guy riding so I don't get much attention but come the nice weather days, hell ya I love it LOL

Got a cat-call the other day. Then I realized it was for the bike! LOL Love it anyway. I think as long as it's mutual (liking your bike or liking yourself), it's all good. :-)

I ride alone most of the time but when I am in a group with mostly male riders, I find them to be more attentive or daresay, 'protective'?  I feel at ease with them (maybe due to 5 brothers) and they tell me I am a great rider.  Learned to ride in jr high, finally getting a harley bike in my 40s, and at 51, I am soooo basking in the elation of riding whenever, wherever I can on my V-Rod .........with full and unconditional support and encouragement from my incredible hubby!  He rides when he can.  I am very confident in my skills as a rider and often travel from AZ to NM and CO, solo and/or meet up with friends/family along the way! No matter the distance, solo or not, I do get my share of looks of admiration mostly and occasionally, a 'kid' yelling to his/her parents, "I told you it's a girl!"  haha! LOVE IT!! Meeting people from all over the globe when I take a 'quick trip' to the Grand Canyon is absolutely awesome!  'My backyard' so to speak! They have no problem coming up to me and asking for photo ops ........ I let them sit on my bike too, their expressions are memorable, especially moms, grandmothers, aunts, etc.!  My grown kids love to tell their friends their mom is a 'biker chick' who is also a 'grandmother' ........... life is too short and time is not a luxury to me, unbridled passion for riding keeps me young in body, mind and spirit!

This past summer I discovered the freedom of riding my own bike-love it! Ladies can be Biker Chicks one day and wear an evening gown the next- so cool to enjoy every minute of life

Like your answer SuziQ - I enjoy the freedom, the leathers, and all the gurly, gurly things too! I've never been mistaken for a man on my bike yet, but I guess there's always a first for everything. As long as we enjoy the journey, everything else is just a plus!