Mon 25 Jun 2007
Marianne Weber: an impressive woman!
Par Christelle, Mon 25 Jun 2007 à 17:32 :: Lady Bikers
"Riding is the same as listening to music on stereo, you are really part of the environment ". Marianne Weber.
In1944, Marianne Weber is 20. Imagine this young woman, her life… nothing to do with the young women we can meet nowadays. Nevertheless she was about to become a personality in the motorcycle world. Did she already have a feeling about it, days after the end of the WWII?
She decides to organise one of the first motorcycle rallies post war: The "Brabant-Ardenne" (between 135 and 155 miles, depending on the year). Preliminary Inspections of the route, map elaboration without any mistakes… of course men snigger before her first rally, expecting a lot of mistakes and problems. But she succeeds in surprising them. . Marianne’s objective is to finish in the shortest time.
On her route, she uses paths that are not yet lanes, and lanes that will only become roads in some 10 or 20 years time.
Mud tracks and potholes are on the agenda every year.
"As soon as they arrived, most pilots went for a shower, all dressed. They had asked for beautiful and difficult routes, they got them. Year after year they came back to participate in the "Brabant-Ardenne" more and more numerous. I was the first motorcyclist woman post war. I was accepted ".
From motorcyclist woman, Marianne becomes pilot woman. She beats the Belgian speed record, against well-known male pilots. When she doesn’t participate in rallies, she rides in Europe and Africa. Talking about Africa, she remembers a flat tyre in the desert, 350 miles from the nearest village ! "I chewed a whole pack of chewing-gum for a very long time and I filled in the internal tear in the tyre. As soon as it was hard enough, thanks to the sun shining, I could finish the leg ".
She has a really busy life: travels very far from home, rallies and works in technical fields in Belgium factories. Belgium, French and British motorcyclist press appreciate her technical and tourist reports. In the official international Motorcyclist Federation magazines or even in the international press, her articles are on the same pages as ones of male pilots, photographers or well-known journalists of international fame.
Source : La Moto au Féminin, mardi 10 juin 2003, par Jean Van Der Rest
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