You might remember the story of 20-year-old Nora or Noora Naraghi, Iran’s first woman motorcross champion and her dream is to race in the U.S.

Noora and her mother Shahrzad (also a motocross racer) are currently training a small group of women in their Middle Eastern country, against the social norms that ban women from riding motorcycles, trying to promote the sport.

Naraghi obtained permission from her husband to go to the States and train with Stefy Bau, the former 2 time Women’s World Motocross Champion and owner/instructor of 211 MX school and her story hit the mainstream news, as you can see from this video from CNN.

Source | supercross.com

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It isn’t always easy being a women who wants to ride motorcycles, even in open minded countries women on a motorcycles get the once over, but what happens if the country you live in prohibits you by law from obtaining a motorcyle licence or being allowed on the country’s main track only because you are female?

You turn to motocross and become that country’s first woman MX2 champion and that’s what 20 year old Nora Naraghi from Iran did.

On the last day of October, Nora and eight other women including her mother, Shahrzad Nazifi, competed in Iran’s only motocross race in the MX2 category, set up by Xanyar motorbike club. She beat her mother, who was stiff competition.

Nora’s mother, who is 38 years old and has biked for 22 years, said: “Of course she is younger and has more potential; she is also more technical than me and that is why she won.”

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