“This group changed my life…”; “This group has come to mean
so much to me…”; “My entire life changed since I have been part of this
group…”; “I’ve become more confident and feel ki kuch bhi kar sakthi hoon…”
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| Pic Courtesy: Roshini S Miraskar |
It was on a recent ride that I finally got it. This group I am talking about is the Bikerni.
What is this group about? This group is about a set of
female only bikers who ride together. What is the agenda? Nothing, just ride.
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| Pic Courtesy: Roshini S Miraskar |
It is a platform for women with a common and shared passion
to connect on and to make friends and to live an experiential life that by
themselves, perhaps, is not a possibility, in many cases. The only common denominator in
this group is the passion to ride. Nothing else.
The bikes are different, the
styles of riding are different, the backgrounds are different, some are home
makers, some Head verticals in large MNC’s, some are professionals and some
artists. The girl still in college and the mother whose girl is in college, the
young and old exist on this platform together sharing the same experiences. The
powerful and the meek, the Harley's and the Splendours, the globe trotter and
the girl who just moved to a large city from a little tiny village…all exist
together…all bond together…all ride together.
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What does this group do? Meet on a regularly, make plans to
visit new places, ride on new roads, go as far and wide as possible and as
often as possible.
This 'possible’ is not too possible always…cause this is a
group of women and as women there are ‘n’ number of reasons not to be able to
ride…guilt trips by parents, children vying for attention, husbands snide
remarks, in-laws sense of misplaced ‘norms’, societies snickers, project deadlines,
targets to be achieved, limited leaves that need to optimized…the list is
endless. And then there is only one reason therefore to ride…just the raw call
of passion for the open road, for the beat of the engine for the feel of the
wind at 80 kmph and the
unfettered feeling of being with like-minded women and
to just ‘be’.
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| Pic Courtesy: Roshini S Miraskar |
It is when this group comes together on rides that you see
what a woman really perhaps is…without calls of duty, without having a schedule
to follow, without pressures, without judgment, without prejudice. She laughs,
she talks, she lazes, she dances, she lives. She conquers fears, she conquers twists,
she conquers speeds and she conquers all the other things that hold her back
from realizing her full potential. She learns about herself and she learns about
her potential. She changes, she gets better, she likes who she becomes.
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| Pic Courtesy: Me :) |
And that is what this platform does…and that is why I continue
to hear statements like those, even after several rides and several meet ups…
That’s your sneak peek into the world of a Bikerni…welcome
aboard if you are one of us…
