When I go riding on my bike, the world around me becomes exciting and so elegant all at once, so despite the shortcomings, disasters and horrors… I embrace it. I know it is not just me having these feelings, but I’m definitely another nature lover looking for unanswered questions in an extraordinary manner as well. I cherish the pictures caught by my camera and the ones remained forever in my essence.
5 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Something that motivates me more than anything and it strengthens my motivation to exercise and ride a bike as a female is to observe passionate and fearless little girls who are familiar with the joy of excitement and danger from time to time. ...
4 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
What a moment it was when we were soaking wet and laughing in the rain. As I flip through my diary, I remember that rainy day in the beautiful and wonderful forests of Guilan, Iran with two friends that I do not see much of them these days. We went...
3 Oct 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
When in the morning, you pick up your bike for a ride in nature, sometimes you do not expect that day to be so enjoyable and glorious as nature can be unpredictable like the life itself. Pearl Beach, in a village of Guilan province of Iran, was our...
28 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
When repressed regret, hatred, and anger become normal behavior for a society and no one pays attention. Last week I met a unique group of girls cyclists who wanted to go on a bike ride together and invited me to join them. I welcomed their enthusia...
27 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Yesterday I met a group of girls who shared a common pain. The girls who got married early in life, when they were very young, all had husbands and children and each lived in a corner of the city, and today their hearts want a little happiness. Desi...
24 Sep 2020 1 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr
Cycling, dangerous cars, and my poor turtle Narrow paved rural roads for cars which at both sides are overlooked to rice fields are like a death trap for any living creatures. In the spring and just before the start of the rice-growing season, a pr...
22 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Among all the unpleasantness I’ve been facing as a female cyclist in Iran, that day was one of the hardest and most embarrassing ones to go through. The day that the correspondent of Radio and Television of Iran refused to interview the cyclists beca...
21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
One of the most ridiculous problems of cycling as a girl in Iran, at any age, thirty or even eight years old, is encountering small boys. Funny but true! The bitter and shameful truth of Iranian society is little boys who think cycling is just an ho...
20 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
When you ride a bike through a rough and unpredictable road, the sound of a companion pedaling behind or in front of you is one of the things that make your struggle easier and energizes you for the rest of your journey despite all difficulties and...
19 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
In Lisar, one of the villages of Guilan province in Iran, there is a semi-ruined but exceptional castle that is rarely visited. It is enough to pay attention to the signs at the entrance of the village to see this castle made of mud bricks that stan...
