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'Drinks gas, spits nails': Women who ride pay tribute to 'Motorcycle Mary'

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72% Informative

Mary McGee is the first woman in America to race motorcycles.

She is also the first person, man or woman, to solo the Baja 500 on a motorcycle.

ESPN 's 30 for 30 documentary "Motorcycle Mary " is screened at Babes in the Dirt , an annual three-day dirt bike campout for women.

CNN 's Tom Charity : Women who can draw a direct line from McGee 's life to our own.

Mary McGee was the first person to solo the Baja 500 in Baja , Mexico , in the 1960s and '70s .

She was a living legend, but she never received widespread acclaim.

Ellis and her partner, Violet , hold a screening of McGee 's story at Babes in the Dirt screening in San Diego .

Mary McGee , 87 , died Wednesday morning at age 87 , at the age of 87 .

"Motorcycle Mary " is remembered as the inspiration behind the Baja 500 in the film's emotional climax.

"If I'm starting a race.. I'm gonna finish," she says of the 1975 race in the movie's climax.

VR Score

73

Informative language

70

Neutral language

64

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

25

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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Time-value

medium-lived

Source diversity

1

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