Description: Beard learned to ride a motorcycle at the age of 16. She began her journey in 1982, after completing her third year of architecture studies, using a BMW R60/6 motorcycle. Before setting off, she added soft panniers, a tank bag, and an additional bag attached to the passenger seat. She started from New York City, United States, after shipping her bike from the United Kingdom. From there, she motorcycled to Canada and Mexico before returning to the US and shipping her bike to Sydney, Australia. In Sydney, she spent eleven months working as an architect before motorcycling across Australia. In Townsville, Queensland, she had an accident that left her hospitalized for two weeks. Afterwards, she traveled to Singapore, where she spent 6 weeks replacing stolen documents and gear; then she traveled into Asia. In Thailand, she collided with a dog and recuperated with a local family. At the time of the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the entire state of Punjab was closed. Beard forged the necessary permit to get out of the Punjab region and traveled to Pakistan before returning to Europe via Turkey. She arrived in the United Kingdom in 1984, after traveling 35'000 miles (56'000 km). In doing so, she became the first Englishwoman to motorcycle around the world. When Beard returned from the trip, there was little interest in what she had achieved, as she stated in an interview: "After I got back and nobody was interested in what I'd done, I just shoved everything into the back of the garage. I just kind of moved on with my life." Her 2017 autobiography Lone Rider tells her adventure
Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World, Autobiography, 2017, ISBN 9781782438045
In fact, I wasn’t even sure why I was doing this trip, other than as a distraction from the heartbreak of being dumped by Alex, the guy I thought was going to be the love of my life. That, and a yearning for some adventure and unpredictability in my life after three years spent in stuffy classrooms studying for an architecture degree, had brought me to this place.
Beard, E. (2018) Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World. Michael O’Mara Books Ltd.
So the thought of me, a seventeen-year-old girl who’d ventured only as far as the south coast, now riding around the world on her own? Ridiculous. I wondered if it was the fact that I was female. My friends weren’t chauvinists, but 1970s biker culture was quite primitive.
Beard, E. (2018) Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World. Michael O’Mara Books Ltd.
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