- Description: Carol and Ken Duval are Australian long-distance motorcyclists from Brisbane. They met in 1983 and first rode together around Australia and New Zealand in 1985 on a Honda CX650. In March 1997 they departed on their first circumnavigation of the world, completing it in June 2001 having covered 200,000 km across 57 countries, riding two-up on a 1981 BMW R80G/S. In 2007, Ken retired, the couple sold their belongings and started a second circumnavigation. By 2017, after nearly ten years on the road, they had completed a second circumnavigation and had covered close to one million kilometres, both trips on the same motorcycle
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Life on a Bike
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- 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/Carol_and_Ken_Duval
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97141411
- Description: Simon and Monika Newbound are British long-distance motorcyclists. In May 2002 they departed from Dublin, Ireland, each riding a separate BMW motorcycle, with the goal of circumnavigating the earth by the widest landmass - from Sligo, Ireland to St John's, Newfoundland, Canada - and breaking the existing Guinness World Record of 99,600 km (61,900 miles). On 25 October 2004 they completed a circumnavigation of 101,000 km (63,000 miles) through 71 countries, riding eastward via Norway, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan, Canada and the United States. They crossed above the Arctic Circle three times on three different continents, rode through every US state and every Canadian province, crossing North America six times, and traversed the Gobi, Sahara, Mojave and Kavir deserts. In May 2005 Guinness World Records certified their record for the longest journey by motorcycle (team) at 168,800 km (104,887 miles). Neither had prior experience of motorcycle mechanics, and Monika had never undertaken a long-distance trip before
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Spirits of Adventure
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- 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/Simon_and_Monika_Newbound
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7520104
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: "Longest Journey by Motorcycle (Team)." Guinness World Records. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-motorcycle-ride-(team).
- Description: Born on 20 January 1993 in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, UK, Kane Avellano departed on 31 May 2016 on a 2008 Triumph Bonneville to circumnavigate the world solo by motorcycle. He completed the journey on 19 January 2017 at South Shields Town Hall, having covered 45,062 km (28,000 miles) across 36 countries and six continents in 233 days, with no support vehicle. In August 2017 Guinness World Records verified his achievement as the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle solo (male), at the age of 23. He raised £2,200 for UNICEF during the trip. The record was subsequently broken by Henry Crew in 2019, who completed the circumnavigation at age 22
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: BonnieTour
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1993-
- 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://kaneavellano.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48471649
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: "Youngest Person to Circumnavigate the Globe by Motorcycle (Male)." Guinness World Records. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/414566-youngest-circumnavigation-by-motorcycle-male.
- Description: Robert Sexé was a French reporter, photographer and motorcyclist. In 1926, together with Henri Andrieux, he rode 35,000 km (22,000 miles) around the world on Belgian-built Gillet Herstal motorcycles, departing Paris on 14 June and arriving in Brussels on 3 December. His earlier travels in the Soviet Union in 1926, along with his use of a Gillet Herstal motorcycle and his physical resemblance to the character, are considered a likely inspiration for Hergé's Tintin — the Hergé Foundation has acknowledged that it is not hard to imagine how Hergé could have been influenced by Sexé's exploits. He wrote for La Moto, La Revue de l'Automobile and Le Petit Parisien, and his photographs and articles were published in newspapers across France and Belgium. He died in 1986 in Poitiers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- 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/Robert_Sex%C3%A9
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3436287
- Description: Paul Pelland is an American long-distance motorcyclist and MS patient advocate. In 2005 he was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. Rather than stop riding, he launched the "Endless Road Tour" with the goal of documenting one million miles by motorcycle while raising awareness and funds for MS research. As of late 2021 he had covered over 470,000 miles, spoken at over 250 events across the United States and raised nearly $250,000 for MS charities. He holds four world records: 1,000 miles in 24 hours on 100 different motorcycles (2012); first rider to document 28 hours in a single calendar day (2016); 24 hours non-stop on an indoor dynamometer (2018); and coast-to-coast in under 50 hours on a chopper (2021). His first Yamaha Super Tenere, retired at 172,000 miles, is on display at Barber Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, Alabama
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: longhaulpaul
- 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: USA
- Internet: https://www.longhaulpaul.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7152904
- Description: Born on 12 October 1948 in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Jūgatsu Toi (戸井 十月) was a Japanese travel writer and visual producer. He obtained his motorcycle licence at the age of 32 while reporting on the bōsōzoku (Japanese motorcycle gangs) and subsequently began riding abroad. Between 1997 and November 2009 he completed a motorcycle journey across five continents - Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania - covering more than 120,000 km on a Honda XRV750 Africa Twin and a Honda NX650 Dominator, concluding at the Honda headquarters in Aoyama, Tokyo. Over his lifetime he covered more than 250,000 km across more than 50 countries. He also holds the record for the most entries by a Japanese rider in the Baja 1000 off-road race in Baja California, Mexico
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Japan, Giappone, Japon
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1948–2013
- 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/J%C5%ABgatsu_Toi
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11496208
- Description: Effie Hotchkiss (28 January 1889 - 14 April 1966) and her mother Avis Hotchkiss (born 1859) were pioneering motorcyclists from Brooklyn, New York. On 2 May 1915, Effie, aged 26, departed with Avis, aged 56, seated in the sidecar of a 1915 Harley-Davidson Model 11-F with a 3-speed gearbox. Their goal was to visit the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. They travelled via Albany, Buffalo and Chicago, averaging 150 miles per day, and reached San Francisco in August 1915, where Effie poured a jar of Atlantic seawater she had carried from New York into the Pacific Ocean. They immediately began the return journey, arriving back in Brooklyn in October 1915, having covered approximately 14,480 km (9,000 miles) in total. Effie and Avis Hotchkiss became the first women to complete a round-trip transcontinental motorcycle journey across the United States. Their story was the first ever published in the Harley-Davidson Enthusiast magazine
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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: USA
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avis_and_Effie_Hotchkiss
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4828966
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: "Brooklyn Girl Plans Long Motorcycle Trip". Orange County Times-Press. Middletown, New York. April 23, 1915.
- Description: Kevin Sanders (born 14 October 1964, London) and Julia Sanders née Powell (born 1966, Sheffield) are an English motorcyclist couple who hold two Guinness World Records. They met while backpacking in South America in 1997 and married in Cusco, Peru in 2001. In 2002, riding two-up on a BMW R1150GS, they circumnavigated the world in 19 days, 8 hours and 25 minutes, covering 31,319 km (19,461 miles) across 12 countries and four continents - beating the previous record by 12½ days and also surpassing the existing car record by 1 hour and 50 minutes. In 2003, riding a BMW R1150GS Adventure, they completed the Trans Americas route from Deadhorse, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina - 27,357 km (17,000 miles) - in 35 days, breaking the previous record by over 12 days. Guinness World Records no longer certifies either category
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: GlobeBusters
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- 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://www.globebusters.com
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/user/GlobeBusters
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40745053
- Description: Born on 19 October 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, investor James Beeland Rogers Jr. co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973 and retired at age 37. Between 1990 and 1992, he rode a motorcycle through 52 countries across six continents, covering more than 160,000 km (100,000 miles) in 22 months - a journey listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and recounted in his bestselling book Investment Biker (1994). Between 1 January 1999 and 5 January 2002, Rogers and his wife Paige Parker completed a second Guinness-recognised circumnavigation, travelling through 116 countries and covering 245,000 km (152,000 miles) in a custom-made Mercedes, departing from and returning to New York. This second journey is recounted in Adventure Capitalist (2003)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: The Indiana Jones of Finance (Rogers)
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.jimrogers.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552215
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rogers, Jim. Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers. New York: Random House, 1994. Rogers, Jim. Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. New York: Random House, 2003.
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