Elspeth Beard

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We've written about Elspeth Beard before - but couldn't help post this video by BMW Motorrad. Globetrotter. Visionary, dreamer, doer. One of my role models.

Elspeth Beard is one of a select band of bold women to ride a motorcycle around the world, and she was the first Englishwoman to do so. She achieved this feat thirty years ago, in the days before sat-nav, internet, email and mobile phones, and she did it mostly alone.

Production bike races in Thruxton - 1969

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Check out the highlights of the 1969 International 500 Mile Grand Prix in Thruxton!

Special ! Motor cycle grand prix. C/U of motorcycle No.59. Shots of motorcycles lined up in the pits. Various shots of mechanics making last minute adjustment to the bikes. M/Ss and C/U of bikes being filled with fuel. C/Us of cyclists revving engines. L/Ss of the bikes lined up on one side of the track.

Globetrotters: Anne France Dautheville

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So many great figures in history that have achieved what most of us dream of. Anne France Dautheville was a Journalist and writer, and in 1972, she rode aMoto-Guzzi 750 to participate in the ‘Orion Raid’ (Paris France, to – Isfahan Iran) and then continued solo on to Afghanistan.

In 1973, she became the first woman to ride across the world solo on a motorcycle: Astride a Kawasaki 125, she trekked three continents and covered 12,500 miles. Interestingly, her personal style during these trips became an inspiration for a fashion lined for the famed Chloe's fall 2016 collection.

She's written twobooks of her journeys,  Une Demoiselle sur une Moto (Girl on a Motorcycle), published in 1973, and Et J'ai Suivi le Vent (And I Followed the Wind). We're really hoping an English edition will be published soon!

Anne ON her moto guzzi 750 (el dorado?)

Anne ON her moto guzzi 750 (el dorado?)

AFghanistan

AFghanistan

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Paris

Paris