SOCKiT WENCHES - Ruby Red Ruby Red is our sweet southern belle… if sweet southern belles do one-armed push-ups, arm wrestle, and swear like sailors. Not surprisingly, we met Ruby in a garage down in the Industrial District. Ruby was just slinging her long leg over her shiny 1978 BMW R100/7 when she spied the Sockit Wenches strolling into the garage of Seattle’s finest vintage motorcycle club. Sensing these fine women might be cut from the same cloth, Ruby shut her bike off, shook her long red hair free of her helmet, and walked up to stand eye-to-eye with the statuesque Jackie Hammer. They cleared off the top of the pinball machine and one-by-one the Sockit Wenches arm wrestled Ruby to gauge her strength and determination. Ruby had the beauty, the strength, and the attitude of a true Sockit Wench, but could she skate? We came to find out Ruby Red was a schoolgirl skater. Some kids walk to school, some ride bikes, other do carpools, but our Ruby Red was, in fact, a skater. Every morning and every afternoon, Ruby topped off her Catholic school uniform with a pair of white quad skates with orange and blue pom-poms weaved into her laces. She loved those skates. And though she thought she had hung up her skates for good when she discovered the smooth ride of vintage BMW motorcycles, the Sockit Wenches gave her a shot to lube up those old bearings and dust off those trusty skates… and Ruby’s never looked back. BACK