Roar Riders
Roaring for Nature
ROAR started with a small group of riders in Delhi and the NCR who were tired of arriving at the same viewpoints, riversides and hill villages year after year and watching them get worse. We could not fix the roads or the weather. We could pick up what we brought, and a bit of what other people left, every single time. That is the whole idea, and everything else is built around it.
Every ride gives something back
The rule we started with, and still ride by, is simple: no ride ends without a service stop. It is written into the route before we set off — a clean-up on a trail or a lakeshore, a books-and-supplies drop at a village school, a stray-animal or wildlife task, a stretch of highway cleared. Everyone on the ride takes part. It is not a photo at the end for whoever feels like it; it is the reason the ride exists.
Over time that turned into the route library — every route we ride, written up with a service action attached — and the ride journal, where we log what each trip's clean-up actually collected.
A community, not a service
ROAR is free to ride with and run entirely by volunteers. Nobody is paid, nothing is sold, and there is no membership fee. Rides are organised and led by members on their own bikes, on their own time. What you get is a proper briefing, a planned route, a lead and a sweep, and people who will not leave you on the side of the road — not a tour package.
Beginners are expected, not tolerated. Women ride, lead and marshal as full members. The pace is set by the least experienced rider on the day, and turns are always marked so nobody has to guess or hurry. How that works in detail is in the ride code.
How it is run
Lead and sweep duties rotate. Route and cause choices are made together, usually on the WhatsApp group and settled at the pre-ride meet. The small amounts collected on service rides — the odd contribution towards books, saplings, or getting collected waste to somewhere it can actually be processed — are accounted for and shared back with the group. As the numbers grow we will publish them properly.
The honest bit: we burn fuel
Riding motorcycles for pleasure is not a green activity. Every kilometre we ride burns petrol and puts carbon into air we say we care about. We are not going to pretend a bag of collected plastic cancels that out — it does not, and claiming so would be the same greenwashing we find tiresome from everyone else.
What we actually do about it: we consolidate trips rather than everyone riding out solo; we ride within the limit and within our own limits, which also happens to use less fuel; the clean-ups, the plantation days and the school drops are real work with real outcomes even though they do not appear on a carbon ledger; and we are upfront that the tension exists. If that honesty matters to you, you are our kind of rider.
Get involved
- Ride: pick a date on the meetup page, or message us on WhatsApp with your experience level and we will point you at the right first ride.
- Lead: if you know a route well and ride it responsibly, tell us — we always need more people who can lead and sweep.
- Collaborate: if you run an NGO, a school, a cafe or stay, or a cause that a group of riders could genuinely help with, use the collaborate page.
Come do one with us
The next ride is on the meetup page. New to group riding? Read the first-ride checklist first.