Sunday (Feb 25) was a much awaited weekend in Mangaluru when women motorcyclists vroomed past each other for top honours. It was the Ladies Class event at the Auto Cross-2018 near Airport Road. The women motorcyclists took to the uneven tracks to conquer a predominantly male bastion Ritu Kaur, 30, from Gujarat, one of the well-known women riders in the country, […]
In a bid to persuade more and more women to wear a helmet while driving, the Chandigarh traffic police have started an awareness campaign. They have started distributing stickers with a message saying ‘Helmet saves her head too’ outside colleges and busy traffic junctions. The government took the step in the wake of increasing number of […]
Geeta Verma from Mandi Himachal Pradesh is the woman whose picture went viral in September last year for paddling on a motorcycle in the Seraj valley carrying Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccine box to Raygarh. The healthcare worker was on a mission to immunize children from the nomadic communities. Geeta has been featured in the World Health Organization’s […]
Vedangi Kulkarni’s story is one of determination and perseverance. This 19-year-old Pune girl will kickstart an expedition of travelling 29,000-km round-the-world this June. What’s more interesting is that she will paddle through the entire trip. Yes, she will go cyclying across the world! Vedangi plans to venture out solo and complete the trip within 130 days […]
Life is full of surprises and in the most unpredictable ways. When Harsha Mishra, a Patna girl, ran away to Delhi from home at the age of 15, she didn’t know that two years later, she would be back in the capital on a different mission. Harsha had fought with her parents and gone to Delhi […]
Dr Maral Yazarloo, who is on a biking expedition along with photographer Pankaj Trivedi since March this year, is now headed for the second leg of the journey. As per the ‘Ride To Be One’ expedition, they aim to travel for a year and half across seven continents. A 35-year-old Iranian, Maral moved to India […]
Nirmali Nath who hails from Guwahati, Assam, is not the typical mother of a 14-year-old girl. The chapter manager of Harley Davidson’s Guwahati showroom, Nath is the first woman to ride her 350 CC Royal Enfield from Guwahati in July this year, aiming to reach the world’s highest and most dangerous roads in the remote land […]
They are now in the India Book of Records for being the first team of Indian women to ride the Khardung La on scooters.
Ambika Sharma is founder of Pulp Strategy and Managing Director at Instappy, who is also an avid and passionate biker.
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