Kalyani Potekar is a biker and adventure enthusiast.

Kalyani hails from Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. From the very start, she was into all sorts of adventure sports like horse riding, mountaineering, skiing and paragliding. Kalyani says she had a running romance with motorcycles since she was a kid. She rides with the big guns now, leading the pack from the front by becoming India’s fastest female biker, awarded with numerous achievements at the age of just twenty seven.

Kalyani spent most of her childhood in Dewas. She went to Pune for her graduation where her grandparents used to live. She completed her B.Sc. in Physics and Photography from Fergusson College in Pune. Her parents exposed her to a lot of adventure sports at a very young age, especially her father who is a motocross racing professional, and they were the one to sow the seeds of motorsport into her DNA. When she was in college and got her first motorcycle, she was very fascinated and she knew it was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.

When her college finished, Kalyani went through a transition period where she was very confused about what to do next. She initially wanted to get in the Indian Army, and she also had a good family business as an option. In 2019, Kalyani decided to take up a job but had to quit it because of the pandemic situation. She then wanted to follow her passion and started her Youtube channel and concentrated completely on growing it, by collaborating with celebs, bikers and different brands.

Kalyani has had her fair share of critics when she chose this profession. She says while growing up, there were comments from society, but over the purr of her machines, she chose not to hear those pulling her down. On the roads, there were people who were not used to seeing a girl riding a motorbike and people always tried to demotivate and pull her down but she never stopped. In due time, she shut down her naysayers.

Talking about her personal achievements, Kalyani says she is very happy that she has made her parents proud by doing everything on her own and reaching the heights. On a professional mark, amongst her most prominent achievements was how she was able to complete her lap in just 2.08 minutes and she feels she is getting better every single day.

Kalyani feels she waited a little too long for the right opportunities to come in life and in the process she lost many other ones. If she could go back in time, she would like to advise her younger self to grab each and every opportunity and just do it. She would also want to start racing at an early age.

For the youngsters, Kalyani advises them to be more precise with who they follow on social media, and always seek for the correct guidance in life. If they want to join the motorsport industry, the foremost advice that she would give to them is to start young. There are a lot of competitions for the younger generation and it always helps when you have more experience. She urges them to follow their passion and start working on it earlier than everyone else around them.

Kalyani’s inspiration in life are her parents who always supported her through thick and thin and never let her give up on anything in her life. Professionally her inspiration is Marc Marquez, a Spanish racer, who she has been following ever since she got into racing.

In her free time, Kalyani loves to spend time with her parents because they always have something to make her smile. Other than that, she indulges herself into sports and fitness activities to keep herself always fit.