Fashion at high speed

Tania Ivanova

*The young designer Tania Ivanovafoundher new passion– motor bikes

People often ask me where my passion comes from. I don’t know the right answer, but the most exact explanation is that the motor bikes and the high speeds are in my blood. Most people think that it is madness to drive a motor bike and that this isn’t even sport, but according to me they can’t get into the heart and beauty of the motor cycling.

The right driving of a motor bike requires as good physical training, as unbelievable concentration. With both hands you take the wheel and you drive the motor bike, as at the same time with the left hand you push the connector, with the right hand you press down and you put front brake, with the left leg you change the gears, and with the right leg you put back brake. Every position of the body co-operates as to the slowing down or to the acceleration, as to the taking of the turns.

You have to be „in one with the motor bike” as says my mechanic. The aim is to be obtained one whole thing, because every wrong motion or winding can lead to bad consequences. It’s a fact that the risk and the danger of incidents are big, but man can run from his destiny; there is no flying from fate.

I fell with cross motor bike and I broke my leg. All the people expected that this will makes me give up the motor bike, but it turned out they don’t know the real Tania. Not only I started to drive a cross motor bike, but I also started to drive track motor bike - Aprilia RS 125, the most beautiful motor bike of this class. Than I understood that the motor cycling is my sport.

I would like to thank to everyone from „Bulgarian Federation of Motor Cycling”, and in particular to Mr. Bogdan Nikolov, because he is an incredible person.

say that you appreciate the important things when you loose them, but in this case I regret only that I didn’t realize my passion earlier.

The track motor cycling for me is unison of aggression and elegance – me, I’m like this. I can’t bear the monotony and the melancholy. If for the most of the people „rest” means calmness and inactivity at some quiet place, so for me it isn’t like this, this can drive me crazy.

The dynamics, the speed, even the risk in some degree make me feel good. When I drive, no matter if I am in the street, at training or at competition, I feel happiest. I feel absurd calmness that definitely is missing before the start of some motocross. Then I get nervous, but this feeling disappears in the moment when I start the connector.

Recently in Turkey, at the track in Izmit, was my debut in the motor cycling competitions. All passed well, I am happy from my manifestation, but mostly I am happy that we all came back alive and well, because this is a track, where the incidents with tragic end aren’t rarity.

Many people don’t believe that I drive motor bikes. Their visual concept of woman-motorman is quite different from me. This amuses me very much.

If are you asking your self what is the common between the fashion and the motor bikes – it’s ME! For both initiatives is required many tenacity, work and talent. It is important to have precise eye and clear concept what you can make and what not.

I don’t want to make a choice between the fashion and the motor bikes, for the moment I succeed to balance. For me the fashion is a profession, but from this type for those people say – „Find work that you love and it won’t be necessary for you to work nor one day in your life”.

The sport is till one moment, but career person is building during the whole life. I consider the fashion and the motor cycling sport as two parallel initiatives, but I don’t forget what priority is.

Photos:
1.-3. The young designer Tania Ivanova with her fashion works of art
Photo: © Tania Ivanova
4.-13. Tania Ivanova in her new special line
Photo: © Ivo Tsvetanov

VIDEO:
Tania Ivanova about her motorcycle debute in Izmit
Motosport extra - Belgrade (2008)

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