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Breaking stereotypes: Meet Sarah Kashyap, the only female biker who finished the Desert Storm Rally

Sarah will once again be the only female rider in the foreign bikes category in the Desert Storm Rally 2018.

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The very petite yet rugged, Sarah Kashyap, the only female biker who finished the Desert Storm Rally on her motorcycle in 2017, will be back again, riding in the dunes of Rajasthan on March 17. She will be the only female rider in the foreign bikes category in the rally. In a conversation with AFTERhrs, Sarah talks about her preparations for the upcoming rally in Rajasthan, breaking stereotypes, her future plans & much more...

Breaking stereotypes

Being a five-foot-one-inch tall girl, people never believed that she could ride a bicycle, but that was what she wanted to do--- break stereotypes. Sarah feels that, one needs not have a specific height or weight drive a bike, and that is what she wanted to prove to the world.

“Whenever I would go to any petrol pump, people would ask me just one thing, ‘aapke pair pohuch jaate hain?’,” she opened up with AFTERhrs.

But it is not just the world, but a fight within yourself, as she asserts, “The fight is majorly within yourself. One must stop listening to the people, the world would start telling you to get married as soon as you turn 28, for them the only goal is to get married! But one needs to get out of those things."

She also wants to prove it wrong, that a bike is only a “man’s machine”. In fact, she also has started mentoring young girls into the sport. “But I also feel that things are finally changing. I get many young girls who are keen on joining this sport,” she says.

Training hard for Desert Storm

She explains that riding in a desert is no joke, and also asserted that she has been training real hard for this rally. “We’re absolutely in dunes, and riding there is quite difficult,” expresses Sarah.

But she has been training in the sands for the same. “I couldn’t finish the Desert Storm in one go, I did it in the second attempt, last year. I trained hard, worked on my fitness. The desert has a strange way of making you give up. But I have overcome all those things,” quips Sarah, who absolutely adores Rajasthan.

“I love Rajasthan. It is a saying that once you get a taste of the sand, you would hate the city life, and I believe that happened to me as well. I love being in the dunes, and I have had nice experience here earlier,” she shared.

Her next goal is the Dakar Rally. “Everybody dreams of going to this rally. But I really want to go for something which women don’t go for. In this, you are absolutely alone, and I find it extremely challenging and exciting,” says Sarah, who wants more women to get into this sport.

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