Seema Sharma Dora
Seema’s profession and her love for mobikes literally takes her places. She is an advocate, proprietor and director of two travel agencies. Seema took to automobiles very early in her life, she was in Class 9 when her father taught her to ride a Lambretta scooter. After her marriage, her love for automobile went top-speed as her husband taught her to ride mobikes. It has been two decades since she has been living in Delhi and feels traffic and road sense have become worse. Freak accidents are common, which can be easily avoided. Seema rides with the Group of Delhi Superbikers, popularly called GODS. She considers the group family and the boys never make her feel alone. She attempted saddle sore and bun burner (endurance motor cycling) and completed 2,700 km in 36 hours to become the first women in India to do so.
Amritika Phool
Amritika Phool has two distant dimensions to her identity. She is an animal lover and a mobiker at the same time. Amritika took to the wheels in 1983 and has driven through the changes in Delhi over the years. An important member of the NGO Animal Care Society, Amritika has two extreme views about riding on the streets of Delhi. She finds it amusing and irritating when people stare at a lady biker and when male bikers try to ride too close. At the same time, she also opines that if the mobike breaks down, people on the road are always willing to help. Her personal favourite is a Royal Enfield 500CC, but hopes to own a Harley Davidson someday. She is part of a biker’s club called 456 that undertakes expedition to Ladakh and Dev Bhoomi. Amritika prefers to ride in the city and the road down Rajpath is her favourite.
Yashmeen Manak
Yashmeen loves to pump-up both the engine and the dumbbells. An entrepreneur, fitness instructor and mobiker, all rolled into one, Yashmeen wears several hats. She took to mobiking three years ago and loves to rule the Delhi roads on her Royal Enfield Desert Storm 500 CC. She opines that biking in Delhi is safer owning to the fact that Delhi roads are better and normally leisure biking is done during off peak hours. She fell in love with mobiking on a trip to Goa and soon she was gifted with a Desert Storm by her husband. She has been on biking expeditions to Kasauli, Manali and Udaipur. According to her, the high and freedom that mobiking offers is unparalleled. Her only complaint about mobiking in Delhi is many men still can’t digest a woman riding a heavy bike and their frustration and male chauvinism makes them pass remarks. She loves to ride around India Gate, Shanti Path and the Ridge Road.