Las Marias MC is an all-female motorcycle club in Mexico City, they found that riding in a group made them far safer on the oftentimes chaotic streets of Mexico and they ride a broad range of motorcycles – a Triumph Thruxton, a Harley-Davidson Sportster, a Beta 200 and a BMW GS 650.
The club was recently interviewed by photographer Kate Disher-Quill and profiled on In Venus Veritas, it makes an excellent read and the photographs alone are well worth seeing.
Click to visit In Venus Veritas.
All images copyright © Kate Disher-Quill 2015.
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