About WIMA
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WIMA is the abbreviation of W omen’s I nternational M otorcycle A ssociation and it is the international organization to unite women who love motorcycle. Currently there are branches in 20 countries and approximately 2,500 members in Europe, Australia, the U.S.A. and other countries. WIMA was founded in the U.S.A. in 1950 by an American woman . She had been writing to female riders in overseas during WWII. She hoped that people would understand and live in peace by sharing the joy of riding with other female riders beyond borders and by encouraging each other. At that time, motorcycle was a symbol of counter culture. Besides, female riders were minority in those motorcyclists. It is easy to imagine how hard it could be to live in such an environment. Actually, there were only 4 members joined her when she established the group. On the other hand, it didn’t take long time for WIMA to spread across the ocean, to Europe and to Australia. Now, we do not have anything like headquarters in particular country. All branches are organized in unique style of their own countries and WIMA is a group of all those individual branches, from the countries with a few members to the countries with hundreds of members. Only and the largest of event in WIMA is an annual International Rally held in one of the member country every year. This is really the magnificent, open and attractive event where hundreds of women on motorcycle gather from all over the world. (Please refer to the event page for the detail) Anyone who joins this rally is amazed how close we can be beyond borders and languages when we have only one thing in common “motorcycle”. International Rally is held for one week in every summer. In addition to this annual rally, we also have a special rally once in 5 years; Millennium rally held in Australia and New Zealand followed in 2005.
In
2010,
Japan has
hosted this special
rally.
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