Red Bull Twitch’n’Ride is a skijoring competition….lets start there. WTF is skijoring? A quick google search says: “Skijoring is a winter sport where a person on skis is pulled by a horse, a dog (or dogs) or a motor vehicle.” We don’t believe in animal cruelty here, and motorcycles are kind of our bread and butter so the question now is, “Who’s comin’ with me?!”
Red Bull Twitch ‘n’ Ride took place this year in the Latvian medieval town of Cesis and gathered almost 300 reckless skijoring participants! Getting pulled behind a motorcycle on skis is hard enough, but add the difficulty level of this expert track and now you really have a party.
It’s not often that a late-night text message results in hundreds of women converging in the desert for a biker rally, but that’s exactly what happened when Anya Violet, 29, and Ashmore Ellis, 32, started chatting one summer night in 2013.
“Ashmore and I were texting each other, trying to pick a date that we could plan on going moto-camping,” says Violet, a fashion-design director who lives in Southern California. “We both knew a couple of other women who rode, so we thought we would … More