To prove their point, on 4 th July 1916, 32-year-old Gussie and 27-year-old Addie Van Buren departed from Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Brooklyn, New York, in an attempt to cross the continental United States. They also had another agenda, and that was to prove that women could ride motorcycles as well as men, and deserved the right to vote. Two sisters, descended from the eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren, were dedicated to the cause and endeavoured to become dispatch riders in order to help the war effort and free up men for other tasks.
It was 1916 the world was embroiled in the First World War, and Theodore Roosevelt’s Preparedness Movement had swept the United States.
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