Top 10 Best Female Bikers in the World 2025

List Of Top 10 Best Female Bikers in the World 2025:

Women have become more and more prominent in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing, where speed, talent, and sheer willpower come together on courses and trails all over the world. As of 2025, the sport is still changing. Women riders are breaking down boundaries and setting new records in everything from road racing to off-road endurance. This list honors the top 10 female bikers for their breakthrough work, strength, and contributions to a sport that is mostly male. These women exemplify the spirit of adventure and excellence, from the dangerous turns of the Isle of Man TT to the hard dunes of the Dakar Rally. Their stories not only inspire the next generation, but they also change what we think is possible on two wheels.

1. Maria Costello MBE:

Maria Costello MBE is a huge name in motorcycle road racing. She is from Northamptonshire and has had a 30-year career full of daring new ideas and historic events. Costello was born on June 9, 1973. In the early 2000s, she started to get attention. In 2005, she became the first woman to win a podium in the Manx Grand Prix, finishing third in the Lightweight event on a Honda RVF400. This historic win not only made her name famous on the Isle of Man Mountain Course, but it also marked a huge change for women in the sport. She won three medals for the best female performance in the Manx GP (2002, 2004, and 2005), and in 2009, Prince Charles gave her an MBE for her work in motorcycling at Buckingham Palace.
Costello was also great in the tough TT Races. In 2025, she competed for the 17th time, riding a Galgorm Resort-branded Kawasaki Z650 in the Supertwin TT and a Galgorm LCR Honda F2 in the Sidecar TT with new rider Alice Smith. This all-female sidecar team was a big step forward, expanding on their cooperation since 2023. She finished 12th in the Supertwin class in 2016, which was her best solo result. But her Guinness World Record for the fastest female lap of the TT course—114.73 mph in 2009, set with a fractured collarbone—makes her a legend. Even though Jenny Tinmouth eventually broke it, Costello's record-breaking ride under pressure is still proof of her unshakable spirit. Outside of racing, she's the first woman to lead the 67-year-old TT Riders Association, where she fights for riders in need, and she's a freelance journalist who writes for Irish Racer Magazine and other publications. Her involvement as a mentor with FHO Racing in 2025 shows how dedicated she is to helping young women succeed, which will help her legacy go on.

2. Laia Sanz:

Laia Sanz, a Spanish star who was born on December 11, 1985, in Corbera de Llobregat, is a master of two-wheeled sports. She has dominated trials, enduro, and rally-raid events for almost three decades. She started riding her brother's Montesa Cota 25cc when she was four years old, which sparked a desire that led to her first race in 1992. She was the only woman to enter the Spanish Cadet Championship in 2000, which was the start of an amazing run: 14 Women's Trial World Championships and 10 European crowns. Sanz was very good in enduro, winning five world titles. She had a spectacular return in 2021 after an eight-year break, winning the FIM Women's Enduro World Championship in Portugal, Sweden, and France.
Sanz's biggest test has been the Dakar Rally, a punishing 9,000-kilometer journey through deserts. She won the women's motorbike category and came in 39th overall in her first race in 2011. She did the same thing in 2012. Her 25th place finish in 2020 showed how strong she was, and her 15th place finish in 2016 showed how tough she was. In 2025, Sanz is still a GASGAS ambassador and continues to teach others, stressing how important trial is for each rider to learn balance and patience. She claims, "I still get butterflies before every race." This feeling helped her win five enduro races and an 18th trial title in 2014. Sanz's impact off the bike is just as big; she's a strong supporter of women getting into motorsports and raced in Spain's first 24-hour endurance car event in 2014. Laia Sanz is the "Queen of the Desert" because she has won 19 world titles and finished the Dakar race 11 times in a row. She inspires riders all over the world to do the impossible.

3. Beryl Swain:

Beryl Swain, who was born Beryl Tolman on January 22, 1936, in Walthamstow, London, was a trailblazer who broke the strict gender rules of motorcycle racing in the 1950s and early 1960s. Swain was a shorthand typist, but her love of speed began in 1952 when she met Eddie Swain, a motorcycle repair shop owner who became her husband in 1958 and taught her how to ride a motorbike. Eddie gave her her first bike, and she rapidly became an expert on 50cc bikes like the Itom and Bultaco. Her light frame helped her in the agile class. By the late 1950s, she was a mainstay at UK circuits such Brands Hatch, Snetterton, and Silverstone, joining the Racing '50' Motor Cycle Club and gathering awards, including the 1960 Montesa Trophy for ladies.
In 1962, at the Isle of Man TT, Swain achieved her greatest success. She was the first woman to compete in and finish a solo motorcycle race on the famed 37¾-mile Mountain Course. She rode a race-ready 50cc Itom and did two laps at an average speed of 48.3 mph, coming in 22nd place even though she lost top gear on the second lap. The feat got a lot of praise around the world, but it also got a lot of criticism. In 1963, the Auto-Cycle Union (ACU) took away her license because the TT had a bad safety record and said racing was "too dangerous for a woman." Swain didn't give up, though; she lobbied the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man to get her license back, but the ban stayed in place, ending her career at its peak. She retired to retail management at Sainsbury's, later helping with the Women's Institute and Meals on Wheels in Essex, where she lived until her death from Alzheimer's on May 15, 2007, at age 71.Swain's legacy survives as a symbol of defiance. A 2019 blue plaque at her Walthamstow childhood home recognizes her as a "pioneer of women's motorcycle racing," and her tale drives modern tributes, including the Valkyrie Connie Club's all-female efforts at the TT. Beryl Swain rode into history at a time when women were not allowed to compete. She showed that fearlessness on the track knew no gender.

4. Avalon Biddle:

Avalon Biddle, now Avalon Lewis after her marriage, was born on September 21, 1992, in Auckland's North Shore. She is New Zealand's speed queen, a fierce competitor whose journey from little motocross tracks to global circuits shows Kiwi grit and global ambition. Avalon was born into a family of motorsport royalty. Her father, Keith Biddle, was a speedway racer, and her uncle, Bruce Biddle, was an Olympic cyclist. She started racing on a Yamaha PW50 at the age of six with the North Harbour Mini Motocross Club. She switched to road racing at age 13 and quickly became the best in her area, then went on to win in Australia and Europe. She made it big in 2015–2016 when she won the European Women's Supersport 600 Championship, riding 130-horsepower bikes at speeds of more than 260 km/h.
Biddle's 2025 season is the best yet: she will compete full-time in the first-ever FIM Women's Circuit Racing World Championship (WorldWCR) with Carl Cox Motor Sports. She made her debut as a wildcard at the 2024 opener in Cremona. She is also the first woman to win the New Zealand Supersport 600 title, which she did in a historic victory at Taupo. Biddle lives in Brisbane and works as a co-host on Sky Sport's Skyspeed, writes columns for Bike Rider Magazine, and promotes road safety and marketing campaigns. Her 2016 Dame Joan Harrex Memorial Scholarship helped her push for a spot in Europe, showing that she is a top achiever. "I pave the way for future females by competing in a male-dominated sport," she says, her credo being "no obstacles too big." Avalon's career, from Auckland dirt to world stages, shows that passion and hard work can rev engines and break molds, from tiny motorcycles to superbikes.

5. Ashley Fiolek:

Ashley Fiolek was born on October 22, 1990, in Dearborn, Michigan. She is a deaf dynamo who has broken records in motocross, showing that silence on the track makes the heart roar. Fiolek's family moved to St. Augustine, Florida, in 1998 so she could go to the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. She has been culturally deaf since birth and uses American Sign Language to communicate. At seven, she found motocross there, a sport where instinct is more important than sound. Her professional debut in 2008 on a Honda CRF250R started a four-year AMA streak: four Women's Motocross (WMX) national championships (2008–2011), including a spectacular win in 2008 at Steel City with a fractured collarbone.
Fiolek became the first woman on the Honda Red Bull factory squad in 2009, which got her an ESPN ESPY nomination and a cover on TransWorld Motocross. She won gold in Women's Moto X Super X at X Games 15 (2009) and 16 (2010), making her the youngest WMX champion and the first deaf medalist. Her 2010 autobiography, Kicking Up Dirt, which she wrote with Caroline Ryder, told the story of her climb. In 2010, she became friends with Iranian racer Noora Moghaddas, which led to worldwide support for women's riding. Fiolek retired from professional racing in 2013 after winning 18 WMX races. She then switched to stunt work and coaching, starting Ashley Fiolek Motocross Schools to help girls. In 2025, she and her husband Josh will be raising money for kindergarten PE programs in Oceanside, California, through All Kids Bike. "If you work hard, you can do anything," she signs. This saying helped her get over her own problems and inspired deaf athletes, showing that motocross knows no boundaries.

6. Maria Herrera:

Maria Herrera Muñoz, who was born on August 26, 1996, in Oropesa, Spain, is a trailblazer in grand prix racing. Her career, which has lasted more than ten years, has included breaking records in Moto3, WorldSSP300, and MotoE. As she moved up the Spanish junior ranks, Herrera shocked everyone in 2013 by becoming the first woman to win a FIM CEV Repsol race at MotorLand Aragon in Moto3, filling in for Alex Rins on a Repsol-backed KTM. She then made wildcard appearances in the Moto3 World Championship in 2013 and 2014, which led to her full-season debut with Husqvarna Factory Laglisse alongside Isaac Viñales in 2015. In 2017, she was the only woman in the paddock with AGR Team on KTM. She started 54 Grands Prix, and her strength showed through her financial troubles, such as when she paid for her own 2016 privateer KTM entry.
In 2018, Herrera switched to WorldSSP300 with BCD Yamaha MS Racing. He finished fourth and had several top-10 finishes. In 2019, she shocked MotoE with the Ángel Nieto Team, finishing fifth at Misano as the only woman in the series. With the Klint Forward Factory Team, she finished in the top 10 and 16th overall by 2024. She started her sixth season in MotoE in 2025 with 60 starts. That year, she won four of eight WorldWCR races and came in second in the other four, chasing Beatriz Neila for the first title. A RFME women's commission member, Herrera offers camps for riders aged 5-50, teaching Moto3 and MotoE wisdom. "It's nice to help other girls," she says. She is the most experienced female racer in top racing, with two campaigns in MotoE and WorldWCR in 2025. From winning the CEV to being a pioneer in electric cars, Herrera's throttle-wide attitude speeds up equality one lap at a time.

7. Veenu Paliwal:

Veenu Paliwal, who was born in 1972 in Jaipur, was a firebrand who epitomized the raw, unrestrained freedom of Indian motorcycling. Her life was a frenzy of chrome, freeways, and unapologetic independence that inspired a nation. Paliwal is a restaurant owner, but her journey on two wheels began in 1990 at Sophia College in Ajmer, when friends taught her to ride on Rajasthan's dusty tracks. Her father, Kailash Chandra, a retired banker, gave her her first bike. She got through a tumultuous marriage that ended in divorce in 2015 by getting back on the road and buying a Harley-Davidson that became her other self. By the middle of the 2010s, she was India's top female rider, a Harley Owners Group (HOG) member who could go 180 km/h and led Sunday rides that blurred the borders between gender and toughness.
Paliwal's greatest work was her all-India journey after Holi in 2016. She rode alone for 10,000 kilometers from Jaipur across the subcontinent's veins, filming a documentary to promote women's riding and equality. "It's a passion, an addiction," she told other riders. Her trips were about making the world a better place by speaking out for the poor and becoming involved in politics to get her voice heard. Sadly, on April 11, 2016, near Gyaraspur, Madhya Pradesh, her Harley skidded on a turn, and she died at 44 from internal hemorrhage. The country was sad; HOG chapters praised her as a stereotype-breaker, and her 10,000-km journey was an inspiration for women motorcyclists. Paliwal's legacy as a motorcyclist, philanthropist, and visionary carries on, encouraging Indian women to break free from the confines of society. Her Harley spirit will always be on the horizon.

8. Melissa Paris:

Born in the late 1980s in Oceanside, California, Melissa Paris rushed into motorcycle racing with a ferocity that turned heads and broke ceilings. Her two-decade journey from local tracks to world endurance proved that women belong at the top of the pack. Paris began racing on a duct-taped 1990 Yamaha FZR600 when she was 20 years old. By 2005, she was racing 125cc and 250cc bikes in clubs. Her professional debut was at Daytona in 2009, where she finished 21st on a Yamaha R6. That year, she made history by being the first woman to qualify for a World Supersport event. This led to her being accepted to the AMA Daytona SportBike (15th in 2010), the British Supersport at Brands Hatch (2011), and a revolutionary Yamaha M1 MotoGP prototype test at Valencia, where she was the only woman ever invited.

Paris's 10th-place finish in the 2013 Daytona 200 broke her previous record, and her fourth-place finish in the 2014 FIM CEV Repsol Superstock race wowed Spain. She was the WERA West A Superbike Champion in 2015 and had several top-10 finishes in MotoAmerica Supersport before winning endurance races. In 2016, she led the first all-female team to qualify and finish the Bol d'Or 24-Hour. She did it again in Le Mans in 2017. After retiring from full-time racing in 2017, Paris started MP13 Racing to help young riders, especially ladies. She mentored riders like Jamie Astudillo while also competing occasionally, including in AMA Pro Flat Track. She raced until she was four months pregnant in 2018, showing that she was able to make her own decisions. As a Royal Enfield Build in 2025. Train. Race. Paris cycles for fitness and empowerment through her story: "The bike doesn't care if you're male or female—what matters is beating the one ahead." From wildcard qualifier to team owner, Melissa Paris is racing's ultimate mentor, and her legacy is a full-throttle call to the grid.

9. Elena Myers:

Elena Myers Court was born on November 21, 1993, in Discovery Bay, California. She is American road racing's prodigy-turned-pioneer. Her high-rev career was a symphony of firsts that silenced critics and inspired women riders. Myers' parents, Matt and Anita, taught her how to ride pocketbikes. Her dad was her first coach and mechanic. She won her first race at 11 in 2006 riding a 1997 Honda RS125 GP with John Ulrich's Team Roadracing World in the USGPRU 125cc class. By 2010, when she was 16, she had already made history as the first woman to win an AMA Pro sprint road race at Infineon in Supersport. Then, in 2012, she won the Daytona Supersport race, making her the first woman to win a professional motorsports event at the Speedway.
Myers's rise to fame peaked with a 2011 Yamaha M1 MotoGP test aged 17, where he touched 190 mph on Alvaro Bautista's Suzuki, and a top-five finish in the MotoAmerica Superbike series in 2016 on his own Suzuki GSX-R1000. She graduated from high school early through independent study, thanks to the help of AMA Hall of Famers Jimmy Filice and Chris Ulrich. Her blue-nailed Daytona win was a cheeky homage to flair in the midst of speed. Myers married British racer Dean Court in 2016. She withdrew from full-time racing in 2017 at the age of 23, saying she was burned out after a "horrible" season. However, she did not retire until the 2014 Apex/Castrol-backed Triumph Daytona 675R campaign. In 2025, she is the owner-rider of Team21Motosport and Caleigh Ryan's flat track/supermoto mentor. She combines going to the gym (lifting weights and doing cardio) with her advocacy work. "I've exceeded my dreams," she says, her legacy a throttle-twisting blueprint: from tiny bikes to superbikes, Myers showed that focus beats noise, breaking down barriers with every apex-clipping lap.

10. Jenny Tinmouth:

Jenny Tinmouth was born on March 8, 1978, in Ellesmere Port, England. She is the unyielding icon of British road racing. Her career has been a high-octane mix of records, perseverance, and reinvention that has inspired female competitors all over the world. Tinmouth burst onto the scene in the 1990s and made history as the first woman to qualify for the British 125GP, Supersport, Supersport Cup, and—most audaciously—the British Superbike Championship (BSB) in 2011 with Splitlath Motorsport on an Aprilia RSV4. Her 2010 Supersport Cup win at Silverstone, which was the first time a woman had won the British Championship, earned her the most points, but rule revisions put her third overall, the highest for a woman.
The Isle of Man TT named her queen. Her first lap in 2009, when she went 114.73 mph (breaking Maria Costello's record), got her a Guinness World Record. In 2010, she broke that record again, going 119.945 mph. Awards kept coming in: the 2009 TT Newcomer Merit, two Susan Jenness Trophies (2009–2010), and the 2012 Women's International Visionary "IT Girl." Tinmouth won the 2010 TTXGP electric race and came in third in the world electric championship on an Agni Z2, which was a big step forward for green technology. In 2011, she owned Two Wheel Racing and was supported by Hardinge and Sorrymate.com. In 2007, she raced Rizla Suzuki superbikes with Cal Crutchlow, making her the first British woman to ride a full superbike. After 2013, she appeared in Thundersport GB and other big movies as a stunt rider, playing fugitives in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (chased by Tom Cruise on a BMW S1000RR) and other movies.