BIKERS CLUB APRIL 2020 ISSUE | Page 50

road story of april 2020 bikers club ® Incredible India, and the incredible people. My accident and the emblematic rescue operation by incredible motorcycle community in India. by Violeta Ivanova @ bikers club ® Here I share with your readers the fantastic story of my accident in India and the emblematic rescue operation organized by the incredible motorcycle community in India. It is the story, which I can put in the golden frame as a sample of bikers' hearts and souls. I started my ride with an escort from my host and friend 'Ashish Poddar' in Udaipur. He suggested to my husband and me to catch the left route to Jaipur, and he warned us that the other two routes were loaded with the traffic and the constructions. It was hard for us to stay together on the road since I was riding a bike, and my husband was in the car with our daughter. Soon after some toll station, we got lost and separated, and I had to stop at the gas station to feed my bike. After filling gas, at the payment, my card did not work. I didn't have enough cash, so I messaged my husband to return to that point, but he didn't reply because of the driving, and perhaps he didn't see the message. B I K E R S C L U B ® | www.bikersclub.in The guy 'Praveen' from the individual organization of motorcycle community in India did it for me through some QR code when he called me by realizing that I was stopped at that point for a long time because of the live location through which he was keeping a track on me from Jaipur. He was the guy who was going to be our host in Jaipur. I don't think I saw this type of payment technology somewhere else in the world. I continued my ride in the heat, but I stopped two more times for the water. The roads were terrible, and the maintenance work was going on in many patches. The sideways were also dirty, crowded with trucks, bikes, rickshaws, and animals. In the last moment before the accident, I succeeded in overtaking all traffic. But when I had to turn back on the highway, I saw a few asphalt is around 40 cm higher than my line. I decided not to jump over it but to catch the spare line, hoping that both levels would be equal somewhere upfront, but obviously, they were not, so the last thing I remembered was that I was falling.