- Description: Cathy Birchall was the first blind woman to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. Riding pillion on a 1990 BMW R100RT with her partner Bernard Smith, she covered 26,385 miles (42,500 km), crossing 31 countries across five continents between August 2008 and 2009
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1957-2013
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_Birchall
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5053387
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Birchall, Cathy, e Bernard Smith. Touching The World: A Blind Woman, Two Wheels and 25,000 Miles. Panther Publishing, 2012.
- Description: Zoltán Sulkowsky and Gyula Bartha were Hungarian long‑distance motorcyclists who completed a motorcycle journey around the world between 1928 and 1936. Over eight years, they covered approximately 170,000 km (105,600 miles) on a Harley‑Davidson with sidecar, visiting 68 countries across six continents. The journey received widespread media attention: in 1935, they arrived in London and were covered by British, American, Singaporean, and Indian press
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Hungary, Ungheria, Hongrie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Sulkowsky_and_Gyula_Bartha
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023152
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: The New York Times, January 27, 1932. Sulkowsky, Zoltán. Around the World on a Motorcycle: 1928 to 1936. Whitehorse Press, 2008.
TWO ON MOTORCYCLE HERE ON WORLD TOUR; Students Started From Budapest in 1928 -- Have Visited 43 Lands and Gone 65,000 Miles.
- Description: In February 1912, the Hawaiian Star reported on Conrad Greer Fry, born in Santa Barbara on April 21, 1910, described as the “baby globetrotter”. Son of J. S. Fry of the British chocolate-making family J. S. Fry & Sons of Bristol, by the age of twenty-one months he had already traveled 72,000 km (45,000 miles). Milestones included cutting his first tooth on the China Sea, learning to creep in Colombo (Ceylon), speaking his first words in Calcutta, and taking his first steps in England. After time spent in California, in 1912 the family boarded the Japanese liner Tenyo Maru, bound for the Orient and then England, to be home in time for the child’s second birthday
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: The Hawaiian Star, February 14, 1912.
J. S. Fry, a passenger on the Tenyo Maru, which arrived here this morning, is a millionaire and son of J. S. Fry, the well-known chocolate manufacturer. This fact, however, seems to be overshadowed by the Fry’s twenty-one months old baby, which has traveled 45,000 miles in its short life.
- Description: Bessie Stringfield was a pioneering African-American motorcyclist and the first woman to ride solo across all 48 contiguous U.S. states. Starting in 1930, she embarked on eight long-distance solo trips - often on unpaved roads - riding a 1928 Indian Scout and later Harley-Davidsons
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: The Motorcycle Queen of Miami
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield
- Multimedia: https://bessiefilm.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4896493
- Description: James C. Wilson was a long‑distance motorcyclist and author of his autobiography Three‑Wheeling Through Africa. In 1927, he embarked on a roughly five‑month journey from Lagos (Nigeria) to Eritrea, riding a Triumph motorcycle with sidecar—possibly making the first motorized crossing of the African continent
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1900–1995
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Africa, Afrique
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wilson_(motorcyclist)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55614904
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Wilson, James C. Three‑Wheeling Through Africa. Indianapolis: Bobbs‑Merrill Company, 1936.
- Description: In July 1921, the Bourbon News reported on the performance of Wm. H. Fultz, a one-armed musician described as a globetrotter and world traveler. On the street he played the violin, a French harp, and an autoharp at the same time, the latter operated by a wire attached to the toe of his shoe
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: The Bourbon News, July 8, 1921.
One-armed musician. Spectators on the streets Wednesday were treated to a novel sight as they wandered along: that of a one-armed musician, who manipulated several musical instruments at the same time with apparent ease.
- Description: John Paul Gerber was an author, historian, librarian, and motorcyclist. Enthusiastic about European scooters such as Vespas, Lambrettas, and Heinkels, he amassed over 412,000 km (about 256,000 mi) of travel across five continents. He rode his first scooter at age 14 and had covered almost 40,000 km in North America by age 21. In 1966, he undertook a roughly 18,000 km round trip from Minnesota to Panama on a Vespa GS 160. In 1971, he completed a solo journey of 40,000 km from Wisconsin down the east coast of South America to Tierra del Fuego, and back up the west coast; his trip toward Alaska was cut short due to a collision in Hayward, California
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1945–2010
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Vespa
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Gerber
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6252201
- Description: George Adams Wyman was the first person to make a transcontinental crossing of the United States by motor vehicle. In 1903, he covered some 6,100 km (3,800 miles) in 51 days, departing San Francisco on May 16 and arriving in New York City on July 6. He rode a motorized bicycle fitted with a 200 cc engine, frequently following railroad tracks and tackling rough terrain along with improvised repairs. His journey preceded by 20 days the first automobile crossing by Horatio N. Jackson
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: George A. Wyman
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1877–1959
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: https://wymanmemorialproject.blogspot.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5536022
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Wyman, George A. “Across America On A Motor Bicycle”. The Motorcycle, Volume 1, Issue 1 (June 1903).
After riding two days and a night under leg power or rather over it, I reached New York in the middle of the afternoon on July 6. I made frequent stops to rest and I attracted more than a little attention but I was too tired to care.
- Description: In 1914, the Yellowstone Monitor reported the visit of Jimmie Erickson, a thirteen-year-old globetrotter from Crookston, Minnesota. For about two years he had been traveling across every state and major city in the United States. After spending time in California, where he attended the Pan-American Exposition, he set out again toward the Pacific. Within a month he had covered about one-fifth of the distance from San Francisco to his meeting point, traveling nearly 480 km (300 miles) in two days
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Yellowstone Monitor, April 16, 1914.
Juvenile globetrotter visits city. Jimmie Erickson, age 13, juvenile globetrotter of the world, paid the city a visit last evening. Jimmie’s home address is Crookston, Minn. He has just paid his native home a visit. A month ago he bid his Frisco friends a hasty “good-bye” with the promise he would return in ninety days’ time. He is apparently going to make good his promise, for in two days he has traveled one-fifth the distance to his rendezvous.
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| Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains |
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| Personaggi fittizi, Fictional character, Personnages de fiction |
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