Get your motor running with the Motorcycle Mama

By Matthew Sherman

The Lake Oswego Review, Apr 5, 2007, Updated Oct 30, 2009

Vern Uyetake / The Lake Oswego Review

Sandi Serling, Lake Oswego, is a relatively new convert to motorcycles and recently was featured in two magazines for her motorcycle riding. She is shown above on her Yamaha V Star 1100 and below in front of her home.

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Sandi Serling is always looking for her next adventure. On her 46th birthday, she went skydiving. And shortly thereafter, she decided she wanted to top that adventure.

At the age of 13, Serling visited her older sister in college and had the opportunity to ride on the back of a motorcycle for the first time and she never forgot that experience.

“I remember feeling this great sense of freedom and the memory stuck with me,” Serling said.

Through the years, the Lake Oswego resident has had friends with bikes but, at the age of 47, she figured out what her next thrill would be: Serling purchased a Yamaha V Star 1100.

“I kind of have a love affair with that bike. I knew I was going to buy it one mile into the test drive,” said Serling, who is the owner of Serling & Associates, Inc., Media Relations.

Since that test drive, she hasn’t looked back. Serling quickly enrolled in a safety course and now, four years later, riding has become one of her passions.

“I wish I had been doing it longer. I’m finding that I just want to ride as much as possible,” said Serling, who has a 21-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old son.

And now, on her bike, Serling is constantly finding new adventures and discovering towns and places she probably never would have otherwise.

“You experience places you wouldn’t in a car. I’ve gone to a bunch of small towns. When you’re on a bike you want to be in the country because you feel the intensity of the air and the traffic around you. I just ride and take roads that look interesting,” Serling said.

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