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- ↑ "There's no stopping 91-year-old Gloria Tramontin-Struck", Motor Cycle News , 17 January 2017
- ↑ Lynn DeRocco (April 20, 2010), Gloria Tramontin Struck: Still ridin' after all these years, Thunder Press
- 1 2 Julie Jacobs (March 16, 2015), Harley birthday! 89-year-old N.J. woman still easy riding, NJ.com
- ↑ Thad Wolff (March 8, 2013), "Motor Maids Matriarch: Gloria Struck", Rider
- 1 2 3 GLORIA STRUCK 2011 Hall of Fame Inductee, Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame
- ↑ Christopher Maag (July 24, 2014), "Queen of the road: Gloria Struck, 89, matriarch of female motorcyclists", Hackensack Record– via The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington),
When the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is over, Struck will point her Harley toward New Jersey and ride 1,700 miles home. 'We do not trailer bikes. We ride.'
- 1 2 "Gloria Tramontin-Struck", Motorcycle Hall of Fame biography, American Motorcyclist Association, 2016
- ↑ Shelley Steeves (July 8, 2015), 90-year-old Motor Maid member says she still has 'plenty of miles left', Canada: Global News
- ↑ Iron Trader News, October 15, 2015
- ↑ "Gloria Struck, Ronnie Jones Join AMA Hall Of Fame", Cycle News , July 14, 2016
Sources
- Siegal, Margie (2006). "Riding pretty: the Motor Maids". In Michael Dregni (ed.). The Harley-Davidson Reader. MotorBooks International. ISBN 978-1-61060-041-5.