- Description: Dr. August Jentsch and Wolfram Hannig were Austrian long-distance motorcyclists. Between 1953 and 1956 they completed a journey of approximately 120,000 km (75,000 miles) from Munich on a World War II BMW R75 sidecar outfit - a former Afrika Korps vehicle. Their route went south through western Africa - possibly the first motorcycle crossing of that route - and continued through South America, Central America and North America. The companion's name is sometimes rendered in English as "Tungsten Hannig", Tungsten being the English translation of the German name Wolfram. Jentsch recounted the journey in a self-published trilogy: Sterne über sieben Höllen (1957, reprinted 2001), Im Lande des Silberdollars (1958) and Nach Tausend Tagen (1959)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Austria
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Jentsch, August. Sterne über sieben Höllen. Autopubblicato, 1957. Jentsch, August. Im Lande des Silberdollars. 1958. Jentsch, August. Nach Tausend Tagen. 1959.
- Description: Joan and Keith McDonald were New Zealand newlyweds who, in 1952, set off from New Zealand on a three-year round-the-world motorcycle journey through 40 countries on two Jawa CZ 125 cc motorcycles. Their route began with a sea crossing to Australia and Tasmania, then continued by ship to Ceylon, and overland through India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Persia (Iran), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, before crossing by sea to Spain. They then rode through Gibraltar, France, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Portugal. They subsequently crossed to South America, riding overland through Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico, before reaching Cuba, the United States and Canada, completing the journey around 1955
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: New Zealand, Nuova Zelanda, Nouvelle-Zélande
- 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.berndtesch.de/English/Continents/WorldAround/WorldAroundMotorcycle1951-1970.html
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: The Daily News, May 10, 1952.
- Description: Stanisław Bujakowski (born 10 March 1906, Druskininkai) and Halina Korolec-Bujakowska (born 8 October 1907, Vilnius) were a Polish couple who undertook their honeymoon journey by motorcycle from Druskininkai - then eastern Poland, now Lithuania - to Shanghai, China. On 19 August 1934 they departed on a BSA two-cylinder motorcycle with a sidecar, Stanisław riding and Halina travelling as passenger and chronicler, carrying a typewriter throughout the journey. After 19 months and approximately 24,000 km through Poland, Germany, Austria, the Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Persia, India, Burma and Indochina, they reached Shanghai on 15 March 1936. Stanisław remained in Shanghai as a war correspondent covering the Sino-Japanese conflict; Halina returned to Poland in 1937. The motorcycle was left behind in China. Their accounts were published in the Polish press during the journey - in the Kurier Wileński, Świat, Times of India and South China Morning Post - and Halina's diary was eventually published in Poland in 2011
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Poland, Polonia, Pologne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Asia
- Internet: https://lukaszwierzbicki.pl/ksiazki/moj-chlopiec-motor-i-ja/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Korolec-Bujakowska, Halina. Mój chłopiec, motor i ja. Z Druskiennik do Szanghaju 1934-1936. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo WAB, 2011.
- Description: Ding Peterboro and Val Teddington were British long-distance motorcyclists. In 1954-55 they undertook a round-the-world motorcycle journey on a Norton, departing from the United Kingdom and riding overland to Sri Lanka, then continuing through Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji before reaching California, USA, where they were mentioned in a local Pacific Palisades newspaper. The remainder of their route is unknown
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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://overlandmag.com/resources/history-2/history-1950s/
- Description: Eitel Lange was a German photographer who had served as official photographer to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring during World War II. Between 1952 and 1954, he and his son Rolf Lange completed a round-the-world journey on a 597 cc, 28 hp Zündapp KS 601 flat-twin with a Steib sidecar, nicknamed "Taksy" - a name derived, according to Bernd Tesch, from "take it easy". Their route covered Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey), Asia (Iran, Pakistan, India, Ceylon, then by ship to Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, riding overland in Japan), and the Americas (by ship to Hawaii, then North America, returning by ship to Europe). During the journey they interviewed film star Errol Flynn and met Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran. The "Taksy" sidecar outfit is on permanent display at the German Motorcycle Museum in Neckarsulm. The journey contributed significantly to the legendary status of the Zündapp KS 601, known as the "Green Elephant". In 1956-57, Eitel Lange and his wife Ilse completed a further one-year round-the-world journey, this time in a Goggomobil T 300 microcar
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Lange, Eitel. Weltfahrt: Mit Motorrad und Kamera. 1954. Trad. inglese: Around the World with Motorcycle and Camera. Los Angeles: Floyd Clymer Publications, 1957.
- Description: Between 1926 and 1927 the two completed a 36,500 km (22,800 miles) circumnavigation of the world on two 1,000 cc OEC-Temple V-twin sidecar outfits powered by British Anzani Vulpine engines - nicknamed "Pip" and "Squeak" or "The Heavenly Twins". Their route followed largely British Empire territories: London, western Europe, Gibraltar, Malta, Palestine, Iraq, India, Burma, Singapore, Java, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, across the USA and back across the Atlantic to London. The Hughes sidecars were replaced in Melbourne after failing to withstand the road conditions. En route Malins gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia and filmed extensive footage of the journey. He published an account of the trip in 1931 as Going Further. One of the OEC-Temple outfits is on display at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/captain-malins-1927-oec-temple/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101075
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Malins, Geoffrey H. Going Further, Etc.: The Complete Circling of the World by Motor Cycle and Sidecar. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1931.
- Description: Diether H. Ebeler was a German long-distance motorcyclist. Between 1952 and 1956 he completed a journey through 42 countries across four continents on a Hoffmann-Vespa scooter with a trailer, accompanied by an unnamed companion described as a Countess. His route covered Europe, North Africa, the Arabian Gulf, Pakistan and India, and North America. He recounted the journey in Randnotizen eines Weltenbummlers ("Marginal Notes of a Globetrotter"), the publication details of which are not fully documented in available sources
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Ebeler, Diether H. Randnotizen eines Weltenbummlers.
- Description: John Lennox Cook was a British teacher; Tim Hamilton-Fletcher was a British farmer. In 1951 the two friends completed a round-the-world motorcycle journey from London on two Norton Dominator 500 cc motorcycles, covering 30,800 km (19,150 miles) overland in 93 days of riding and a further 24,000 km (15,000 miles) by sea in 31 days of boat travel. Their route and exact itinerary are not fully documented in available sources. Lennox Cook recounted the journey in The World Before Us, published in 1956
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Cook, John Lennox. The World Before Us. London: Quality Book Club, 1956.
- Description: On 21 July 1928, departing from Halifax, Oates dipped the rear wheel of his 497 cc twin-port Ariel - named "Toby" - in the Atlantic Ocean and set off westward, accompanied by a Sturgess sidecar built in Hamilton, Ontario. In the absence of roads across much of the country, he rode for approximately 1,450 km (900 miles) along railway sleepers between Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Whitemouth, Manitoba, lifting the outfit off the tracks each time a train approached. He reached Vancouver on 22 September 1928 - 21 riding days after departure - where the mayor met him and he dipped Toby's wheel in the Pacific Ocean: the first rubber-tyred vehicle to cross Canada coast to coast. In 1930 he set a world record for continuous outboard motorboat operation. In September 1932 he rode from Montreal to Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay - the first person to reach the Bay on rubber tyres. He founded the British Empire Motor Club in Toronto in 1928, served as a founder of dispatch rider training in World War II, and was inducted into the Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2009
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
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