Local motorcyclist Misty Prophet has been chosen to lead a group of women riders to the Women’s Freedom Ride Rally in Topeka, Kan., June 13-15.

The group will be traveling by motorcycles approximately 2,500 miles in nine days.

“I am honored to accept this challenge of leading women riders across five states while raising funds for wounded veterans,” Prophet said. “Not only will we be able to take this amazing ride, but the journey continues when we arrive at the rally with a five-mile ride alongside over 1,184 women riders to break the world record of most women riders in one ride.”   

The annual ride has changed this year by adding eight locations from which over 300 women have chosen to take part in organized, guided rides the week of the rally.

These rides will be converging in Topeka.

They will begin in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.

Others will ride their own route from around the country.

Prophet will lead a group beginning in Scottsdale, Ariz., through Albuquerque, N.M. and then Oklahoma City

“Myself and five other lady ride captains will ride from Oklahoma,” said Prophet. “By the time we get to the rally in Topeka, we will have 38 women riders with us.”

Riding to raise funds for veterans, while celebrating women riders and their freedoms, these ladies will be gathering at Heartland Motorsports Park to break the world record for largest number of women to ride together in one ride.

The Women’s Freedom Ride Rally founder and director, Karen Collins, has been organizing National women’s motorcycle rides since 2010.

In 2018, she and a group of women riders accomplished a 23-state tour within 18 days.

They raised over $30,000 in 2018, donating the funds to the medical expenses of a wounded woman soldier who received a prosthetic arm, as well as, sent five disabled veterans and their caregivers on a retreat.

“The caregivers need a break too,” Collins said. “We donate funds for veterans for equipment they need and medical expenses, but for the veterans’ caregivers, we donate trips that are much needed to rest and rejuvenate.”