“Chal Nikal” “0 to 60 in Five Seconds”; “Drive it Like You Stole it”; “Lose Your Innocence in 3.9 Seconds” are typical marketing slogans for the latest car models. And then a Honda 70 motorcycle has a flamboyant message in reflective stickers on a shiny CD number plate that says “chal nikal”. Chal nikal ( come, lets get out of here) is a collective call to escape, get out of an impasse, find one’s own way out. Somewhere in this contrast lie the social challenges of Pakistani society. The global image of the biker: outlaw by choice, unfettered by society’s docile norms, is a far cry from bikers in Pakistan, and most developing countries, where the motorcycle is simply the most affordable form of transport. According to Arif Hasan the monthly costs are half of bus fares and cuts travel time in half. American WWII veterans wanting to relive the camaraderie of the shared dangers of the battlefield, formed some of the first Harley Davidson biker clubs that evolved i