A worldwide motorcycle relay that has been going on for more than a year and a half will be rolling through Kamloops tomorrow.

Organizer of the Women Riders Worldwide Relay Sara Pedersen tells NL News the event will be starting a leg across Canada that will take 11 days.

She says it started in Northern Scotland in February, with riders transporting a GPS-tracked baton.

“So tomorrow, September the 14th, is the very first day that the baton will be arriving in Canada. It’s leaving tomorrow morning from Vancouver, and about 70 ladies will be riding up the Coquihalla. They’ll be met by the local RCMP just outside of Kamloops, and then they’ll ride down Columbia (Street) and arrive at the Blue Grotto sometime around 2 o’clock.”

Pedersen says the riders will be able to bring their bikes inside the Blue Grotto and will have lunch there before leaving at 3:30 p.m. and heading to Revelstoke for the night.

She says the relay is meant to bring attention to women in motorsport.

“Often it’s designed for men so it doesn’t fit us properly. The sizing is not correct and just because something’s pink, we don’t want to buy it necessarily. And in my case, I had to buy a motorcycle suit that’s for men because I couldn’t get the same safety level as my husband’s gear.”

She says the women who transport the baton are known as guardians, and says the baton has been all across Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

The relay will finish sometime next year.

***Editor Note: this story previously stated the relay started in February of 2018. That has been corrected.