ISSUE 01 | JANUARY 2020
HOW IT ALL STARTED...
GETTING BIKE
WAS NOT EASY
I am a girl from Lucknow, who loves riding motorcycle, doing stunts,
love cooking and music, and my ultimate goal is to ride "Malle Moto
Category in Dakar."
LUCKNOW: It all started when I was very
young, and when my father spotted my love
for a motorcycle at the age of 5.
He taught me how to ride a motorcycle, but
he didn't know then that I would be taking
this as my career one day. I used to get
amazed by the boys who used to do wheelies
and some stunts back in my home town, and
I used to watch them doing them endlessly.
I went to my dad and asked for a bike, he
said: "You get good grades in 10th, will buy
you a bike."
As per pact with my dad, I passed out with
good grades and asked my dad to complete
his promise, to which he said, "bike is very
risky for girls, why don't you go for Activa," I
know how to ride motorcycle, and you only
taught me; I don't want to ride activa which
every girl rides, I replied.
But it was a wasted effort. I got Activa, which
was not what I wanted and which was not on
which I could feel my passion for stunts. I
used to get bullied by those boys whom I
used to watch doing some basic stunts every
day, but one day I told one of them that I
also could do all this stuff if you could teach
me the techniques. Initially, they laughed but
gave me one chance when they saw me
determined, with the help of basic technique
which one of them taught me, I succeeded to
do a wheelie at the very first attempt, to
which I was also shocked, but that moment of
success fuelled my passion even more. Later
those boys became my friends, and often I
used to practice with them on their bikes
bunking my school.
But then somehow, I succeeded in convincing
my dad for the bike, and I got my first bike
Honda Stunner 125. My dad was very
supportive but unaware of the fact that why I
was so keen to ride a bike.
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But then one day, he came to know that I
was doing stunts with some boys, and my
bike was snatched away within a month. And
I have been told to concentrate on my
studies.
As we all know, "The more you press the
spring, the more it will bounce."
I realized that if I have to follow my passion,
then Lucknow is not the city, so I decided to
move out, and tricked my parents by saying
"I want to go out of Lucknow for higher
studies after I passed 12th."
Though they did not agree and wanted me to
do engineering back there, that's when my
aunt came to my rescue and convinced them
and said, "if she wishes, she can come to
Pune for higher studies, and I will look after
her as a guardian," and that's how I moved to
Pune.
I didn't know much about Pune then; I just
wanted to get away from Lucknow. It's not
that I don't like Lucknow, but Lucknow has
time to grow in terms of motorcycling,
whereas, Pune is a biker city which I came to
know later when I shifted there.
But here the question was, "Where is the
bike?"
BIKING
SCENE IN
P U N E
AND MY
QUENCH FOR
BIKE
As I mentioned, Pune is a bikers city, and
here the biking scene is much more
advanced and professional compare to any
other city in India.
I saw many bikers doing freestyle stunts in a
proper place and environment with fully
geared up, not on the street but in an
enclosed place for which they had adequate
permissions from the local authorities.
I was fascinated by seeing them practicing
different styles, which I always wanted to do
and which I have seen in the videos by
professional stunt riders.
I wanted to learn all those styles, but how
could I without a bike? My parents did not
send me a bike.