Posted September 06, Days before an international pilgrimage of female bikers was set to begin a world tour of more than 80 countries, one woman was still to sign on. But year-old grandmother Colette Tindall Edeling wasted no time in remortgaging her Brisbane home so she could join in. I'm going to try and do the whole thing'," she said. After a visit to the bank for the funds, Ms Edeling then needed a motorcycle, so bought one in the UK on her way to joining the group of what would become 10, female riders in possibly the largest recorded world-wide motorbike relay. Carried along with the group, a baton has so far made it to more than 50 countries, in the hope of encouraging women to take part in motorsports.
Women challenge motorbike-riding stereotype in 10,000-strong international relay pack
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Isfahan is known as the city of bicycles, a reputation forged by its many cycling lanes, a bike-sharing system, and a government that actively promotes biking -- that is, unless you are a woman. The prosecutor in Iran's third largest city announced on May 14 that women have been banned from cycling in public, saying it was "haram," or prohibited under Islam. Women had long assumed that they could bicycle in public if they respected Iran's strict dress code, which requires women to cover their hair and body in public. In , Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared to crush the notion with a fatwa explicitly banning women from cycling in public, but it was not strictly enforced.