BENGALURU: Nothing slows Noor Bee in “breaking stereotypes” as she covers mind-boggling distances along with her head coated in a hijab.

Not even a barrage of relatively condescending questions whereas on the street and criticism on-line deterred this 30-year-old motorcyclist who rode solo throughout India, ranging from Bengaluru. Unfettered, the HR skilled is planning her subsequent street journey, as soon as once more alone, this time taking up a much bigger problem throughout worldwide borders. Noor is saving up for a brand new bike and is concurrently chalking out plans for a solo journey from Bengaluru to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, subsequent 12 months. “I need to break the stereotype that girls, particularly from my religion, can’t take street journeys alone throughout the globe. Some have completed it and I need to be the primary from south India,” she stated.
For her, bikes have all the time been past love. “I come from a background the place girls aren’t uncovered to biking. I wished to interrupt that barrier. Proudly owning a motorbike had been on my thoughts since faculty days and as quickly as I discovered a job with an IT agency in Bengaluru, I began working in direction of it,” stated Noor, who hails from Pallavaram in Chennai.

In mid-2021, Noor bought her dream bike. “I managed to purchase a used 2012 mannequin, a Karnataka-registered Royal Enfield Traditional 350, and a few fundamental driving gear with the cash I had saved up and at last set out on my dream an all-India solo bike journey,” she recalled.
Noor stop her job and began from Bengaluru on November 14, 2021, maintaining the street journey a secret from her household. Later, she broke the information from a freeway in Lonavala, Maharashtra.
Clad in her driving gear, 5.5-foot-tall Noor attracted consideration all alongside the best way, not only for being a girl driving solo, however primarily for her hijab. “I rode by Maharashtra and Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Rajasthan after which entered Delhi,” Noor recollected.
Noor, who calls herself ‘Nomadi Hijabi Rider’, was on the street on a shoestring price range and adhered to a couple fundamental security guidelines: No driving after 5pm and maintaining all interactions with these extra-inquisitive males on the best way to the naked minimal.
Like many different riders, she took night time shelter at petrol stations and locations of worship. “I used to be so overwhelmed by the individuals, primarily at locations of worship corresponding to gurdwaras, temples and ashrams in northern India. They welcomed me with meals and lodging, regardless of me telling them that I’m from a distinct religion,” she stated.
She rode on with grit by UP and Uttarakhand. “Nepal was additionally a part of my itinerary and I did journey by the attractive nation earlier than exiting by the Raxaul border and crossing into Bihar,” stated Noor. Sadly, her journey was minimize brief as a consequence of an accident in mid-Might 2022. Injured, Noor was compelled to ship her broken bike to Chennai on a prepare, which she too tearfully boarded at Danapur, close to Patna. “I recovered by July 2022 and returned to Bengaluru to affix my new job. I used to be compelled to promote my bike to rearrange a fats advance for the flat I took on lease in (Bengaluru’s) Yeshwantpur,” Noor stated.

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