Blue Strada Motorcycle and Sports Car Tours

21/03/2025

So many wonderful women riders through the years... that we NOW know about!

𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐌𝐀 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝐃𝐨𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧

This Women's History Month, the AMA recognizes outstanding women in its Hall of Fame who have improved motorcycling for all riders.

A pioneer for women riders, Dot Robinson was instrumental in forming the Motor Maids, an organization for women who enjoyed motorcycling.

She also opened doors for women in racing, competing in endurance runs in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s despite attempts to prevent her from participating. In 1940, she became the first woman to win an AMA National event, claiming the sidecar class in the prestigious Jack Pine National Endurance Championship.

20/03/2025

A GR8 American Ladies Team... Go for the Gold!

Team USA for the 2025 FIM Oceania Women’s Motocross Cup in Australia 🇺🇸 We have a strong team with check out their week leading up to racing this weekend GO GET EM LADIES‼️🇺🇸

20/03/2025

More Excitement from Mazda..! Excellent!

The Whelen Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by Michelin will be the focus of a new docuseries on Prime Video debuting March 25. The premiere date and first trailer were revealed during a private screening …

18/03/2025

Sardinia, Italy !!! After a beautiful driving day in Tuscany we drive onto the ferry to Sardinia, Italy. After morning coffee we're off to enjoy some of the most amazing roads, views, hospitality and of course food! Five more days of excitement and fun awaits us there. Join us October 18th if you love driving 2-seaters on winding roads... and so much more. www.bluestradatours.com

18/03/2025

A fantastic movie elevating Cycling in USA in a huge way.

In "Breaking Away" (1979), Dennis Christopher plays the lead role as a young man who is fascinated with everything Italian as he aspires to greatness as a bicycle racer. Ironically, Christopher is an Italian-American whose birth name is Dennis Carrelli.

The Little 500 bicycle race that forms the centerpiece of the plot is a real race held annually at Indiana University. A reenactment of the race was staged for the film in the "old" Memorial Stadium on the IU campus, which was demolished in 1982, four years after "Breaking Away" was shot. The team is based on the 1962 Phi Kappa Psi Little 500 champions, which featured legendary rider and Italian enthusiast Dave Blase, who provided screenwriter and fellow Phi Kappa Psi team member Steve Tesich the inspiration for the main character in the movie.

Blase, together with team manager Bob Stohler, provided the name of this character: Dave Stohler. In the 1962 race, Blase rode one hundred thirty-nine out of two hundred laps and was the victory rider crossing the finish line, much like the main character in the film. Blase himself appears in the movie as the race announcer.

This is the second of three times that Paul Dooley and Christopher have played father and son. They first worked on the film "A Wedding" (1978), and also in the "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" episode "Cherry Red" in 2003.

In the scene where Christopher's character Dave admits to Katherine that he is not Italian but is actually a "Cutter" (one of the local residents), Robyn Douglass, who played Katherine, starts to walk off, then turns back and slaps him across the face. According to director Peter Yates, she did not 'fake' the slap but actually did strike him, and fairly hard at that. There were over six takes for this scene, with several onlookers flinching every time Christopher got slapped. (IMDb/Wikipedia)

Happy Birthday, Dennis Christopher!

10/03/2025

"Trip of a Lifetime" were the words by two couples that went on the first "Explore Sardinia Miata Driving Tour". Miles of winding roads and coastal views. Oct 18-27 still has some availability. www.bluestradatours.com

Among the many flavors of Miata, the third-gen MX-5 fills a sweet spot between affordability and capability, and people are taking notice.

08/03/2025

Exciting 2-seaters go way-back. I'd be thrilled to do tours of Italy... or even the UK in a fleet of these. The Miatas and Fiatas are probably more fun

04/03/2025

Must see... ❤️❤️

28/02/2025

It's True! Women that ride.. have more fun.

In 1929, Vivian Bales rode her 1929 Harley Davidson for 78 days and 5,000 miles across the country. She told the papers her motorcycle was a “key to the whole United States.

Vivian Bales was the first motorcycle cover girl and was known for several long distance motorcycle rides around the US, (before most of the roads were paved) in the 1920s and 1930s.