Kathmandu, May 26:

Prosthetic limbs and motorcycle have given unlimited mobility for Maheshwore Ghimire.

Ghimire is disabled’s right activist who lost both of his legs when he was six months old.

Twenty-eight years old Ghimire has been cruising the valley roads on his motorcycle for the past seven years.

Ghimire says that his motorbike, like his artificial legs, helps him keep pace with the fast-moving capital.

Ghimire says he lost both of his legs in a fire at his ancestral home in Barmchi village development committee of Sindupalchowk.

“My parents sent me to the house of my maternal uncle in the Tarai as I found it difficult to live in my village, which lies in the hilly region.”

“I passed the written and trial examinations and got a driving licence in Bhairahawa in 2000. I have been biking notwithstanding my parents’ attempts to dissuade me,” Ghimire says.

“I used to ride bicycles during my school days. That gave me much confidence and I took to biking.”

He says his endeavour has encouraged his colleagues with physical disabilities to drive modified scooters fitted with two additional wheels on either side.

It would have been difficult for me to travel in a public vehicle if I had not learnt biking, he says.

“My grandmother used to take me to school regularly,” he says.

Recalling school days, he says, “After the transplantation of artificial limbs, I could move my body easily. What was difficult for me was to run and play with my friends.”