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In the 1930s, Dorothy “Dot” Robinson (1912–1999) regularly challenged male competitors in endurance and sidecar races, and during the Second World War, rode as a military dispatch rider with a select group of women. Riding her famous pink Harley-Davidson after the war, Dot Robinson was considered the “First Lady of Motorcycling” and acted as longtime president of the Motor Maids, motorcycling’s first and most prestigious club for women. See our photo essay “Early Women Motorcyclists” on display, post–security in Terminal 3, and online at: https://bit.ly/3Crwudf
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