Jackie H. Flood
Home: Atlanta, GA
Age: 56
Profession: Administrator for a business consulting company.
Marital: Single, again
Children: A petite daughter who raced a GSXR on the WERA circuit and a son, a DJ in California with the gift for gab.
Years of riding: 33, with the mileage increasing yearly and over the past 5 years logging 20,000 – 22,000 per year.
Longest ride: solo to Montana and back to see how far it was in 1998.
Most memorable trip: the motorcycle trip of a lifetime around New Zealand in January, 2001.
First bike: 1967 or 1968 Kawasaki 125 dual sport.
Total bikes: 13 over the years.
Current rides: 2000 BMW R1100 & 1990 Honda Hawk GT 650.

Never having been one to shy away from notoriety, when Ian Schmeisser asked me if I'd like to see my name in lights, I jumped at the opportunity. "Jackie Flood on Jackie Flood" made me think, "Just how irreverent can one get in writing a bio about oneself for the BMW MOA?" 

What's small, white and weird, besides Uncle Ben's Perverted Rice? Well you take one little Brit at age 12, yank up her tender little roots, move her over the pond to Canada for 5 years and then drop her into the deep south for the rest of her life and you can begin to understand the above question. 

Life for this funny-talking little woman changed forever when she learned to ride a motorcycle. Who would have thought back in 1968, after she hopped, skipped and jumped around the block on a 90cc Honda so slowly until it finally fell over on her, this tiny female would make it all around Montana or New Zealand and live to tell about it? She has perfected the art of falling off a motorcycle and still does it occasionally.

Back then, there were no MSF classes. It was all "seat of the pants" training. The only protective gear worn was a helmet. Gloves and boots came after you got tired of briars tearing up your hands and kick starters whacking you in the shins. Jackie started on the streets and moved to the safer haven of dirt riding: hillclimbs, motocrosses, enduros and trials in the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s and ended up back on the streets.

Although she was the first woman to motocross at Road Atlanta, in 1973 there was nothing in AMA rules about women competing. Only once did officials try to ban her from participating in an AMA sanctioned event, which was a hillclimb in South Georgia. After some pretty foul language and helmet throwing, the officials decided to put it to a rider vote before she killed someone.

30 years ago, a dual purpose125 Kawasaki was the first in her assortment of Japanese dirt bikes and cruisers. Then in 1999, a BMW R1100R entered the picture and the scenery started to become more of a blur. That was the beginning of a love affair with corners and far away places yet to be visited. The cut down seat from the first BMW was moved to a 2000 R bike and the relationship continues to grow.

Storytelling has become an extension of Jackie’s motorcycling persona. The more miles logged on the road, the more stuff that can happen and someone has to write about it. She has had several stories published in national publications, but her next big adventure will be writing a book about an upcoming trip to the 4 corners of the USA. There are so many miles yet to be covered….

Viewing life from a somewhat different perspective, Jackie's alterego, Winglessflite has been known to say, "If you love your bike and it leaves you and then comes back - you've probably high-sided!"