Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: These women are 'revved up'… and challenging established norms in Iran. They're just some of a growing number of women ...

When Merat Behnam first gathered enough courage to ride her yellow scooter through the gridlocked streets of Iran ‘s capital to the coffee shop she runs, traffic wasn’t her main worry. Women on ...

Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament is facing a difficult choice: will it finally grant women the legal right to ride motorcycles? For decades, women in Iran have been barred from obtaining ...

They rumble by night, these bikers. Dressed in heavy leather jackets and gloves, long hair streaming from under their helmets, they straddle smoking black-and-chrome motorcycles, waiting for the ...

Instructor Maryam Ghelich (L) gives women students a lesson in riding motorbikes at a training centre in northern Tehran — ATTA KENARE When she first started learning to ride a motorbike, Iranian ...

Women in Iran can now formally obtain a licence to ride a motorcycle, local media reported Wednesday, ending years of legal ambiguity surrounding two-wheelers. The law previously did not explicitly ...

Women in Iran can now officially get a licence to ride motorcycles, local media reported Wednesday, ending years of uncertainty about the law. Before, the law did not clearly ban women from riding ...

DAYTONA BEACH — When Carolyn “Cricket” Lapins first rode from her home in Marquette, Michigan, to Bike Week on her motorcycle in 1987, she was a rarity. “The people I rode with were mostly men,” said ...

In a bid to get more women into motorcycles, during the 1970s, Yamaha delivered a bike designed with women in mind alongside a strong marketing campaign.

NEW YORK (AP) – Cris Baldwin was 7 when she commandeered her brother’s minibike on their Wisconsin dairy farm and first felt the wind in her face. More than 250,000 miles and 42 years later, it’s ...