Three-wheeled vehicles, known as trikes in the motorcycling world, are one of the fastest growing segments of the powersports industry. "Trike" is the term for all three-wheeled motorcycles. Most have one wheel in front and two in back, but vehicles like the Can-Am Spyder, with two wheels in front and one in back, are also emerging on the market. Whatever the design, if it has three wheels, you'll read about it on TrikeRidersNow.com.
TrikeRidersNow.com (TRN) is an online magazine launched in January 2009 that covers the entire three-wheeled motorcycling industry. Content is aimed at both men and women. TRN is a journalistically sound magazine not supported by any specific manufacturer. TRN adheres to the highest standards in magazine journalism.
Triker Riders Now Founder Genevieve Schmitt. Who's Behind This
TrikeRidersNow.com is owned by Solitude Ranch Communications, LLC, an online publishing and marketing company owned by Genevieve Schmitt. Genevieve is a leading journalist, marketer and spokesperson in the motorsports industry. Solitude Ranch Communications also publishes
WomenRidersNow.com, an online magazine about women and motorcycling that's considered the leading resource for female motorcyclists.
Genevieve is recognized as a leader in motorcycle journalism and has been working in the motorcycle industry since 1993. In addition to publishing TrikeRidersNow.com and WomenRidersNow.com, she writes a monthly column for American Iron, the number one motorcycle magazine on the newsstands. She previously contributed monthly columns to Friction Zone, Midwest Motorcyclist, and Dealernews, a powersports-industry trade publication. She also contributes articles to RoadBike and has contributed at one point or another to most of the other major motorcycle publications, including Rider, American Rider and Powersports Business. Prior to creating WomenRidersNow.com, Genevieve was founding editor of Woman Rider from 2000 to 2004, a quarterly magazine aimed at women motorcyclists.
Prior to working in magazines, Genevieve worked as a full-time news magazine producer and reporter at Good Morning America, E! Entertainment Television and EXTRA. Later she was a reporter on Speed TV and OLN (now Versus), appearing on the weekly shows "Bike Week" and "ATV Magazine Television." A little-known fact about Genevieve: With her debut on "Bike Week," she became the first woman on television to report from the seat of a motorcycle.
Genevieve is an inductee in the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame for her journalism work on raising awareness of the female riding population. She is also a leading spokesperson on the subject of women and motorcycling and has been quoted in many newspapers and magazines, including USA Today, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, BusinessWeek and Jane. She also appeared on Fox News in a segment on women riders for "Geraldo At Large."