Meet Leticia Cline

MOTO-JOURNALIST • IRON LILLIES CO-FOUNDER

"TWO-WHEELED TRANSFORMATION" PANELIST - 2016

Leticia Cline grew up with her dad building bikes in the living room of their house. Her baby photos show her sitting on rat bikes and choppers and after a while it just became instinctual. She favored the smell of grease over flowers. Her dad put her on a Honda 50 when she was 4 and she never looked back. Together they would spend summers in his garage taking apart bikes, polishing all the pieces and putting them back together, he would handle each piece as if it were a rare and ancient artifact all while telling her what it’s function was and how it related to life. He was quite the philosopher and at the time, to a pre teen little girl it was annoying.

Once she got older she started to appreciate his life lessons more and they would ride to biker events together. When she started announcing for Supercross and Motocross races she would bring her dad with her and then when she had my son she bought him a Honda 50 for his 4th Birthday to continue the tradition.

Leticia’s father passed away the summer of 2008 and it devastated her. She rode his Softtail to the funeral, and then she never got on a bike again until spring of 2014. Before then her life was consumed with a motorcycle race every weekend, dealers conventions, motorcycle events and just riding, but she suddenly found herself unable to go to any of those things. She changed her life completely, moved to NYC and became the director of Marketing and PR at a fortune 500 company. The stage was set for her to be the next powerful lady in business but it just wasn’t her.

After five years of being on autopilot Leticia woke up and moved to back Florida to find herself again. In March 2014 she took her son to Daytona Supercross. The smell of the exhaust and dirt, the excitement on her little boy’s face as he watched the race only assured her of where she belonged. The ride home was emotional, but she knew what she had to do. The next day she rented a Thruxton, rode 300 miles to a motorcycle event and bought her dad a patch to place on his grave. The following week she purchased her Iron 883 and now she rides all over the country.

Leticia was afraid that riding would be to unbearably sad to not share it with her father, but strangely she feels closer now to him than ever. And that’s one of the great things about motorcycles: they’re more then a form of transportation… they’re a form of transformation.

Currently Leticia is a journalist for some of the top motorcycle magazines and blogs. Everyday she get to test parts, gear, and motorcycles and write about it. She’s also a MSF Rider Coach and has an all-women’s traveling class planned for 2017 along with a 10,000 mile trip across America with Kristen Lassen called The Lost Latitudes.

Leticia am the co founder of an all-womens, all-Harley riding club in Orlando called the Iron Lilies, LLC www.theironlilies.com