- Description: Kanichi Fujiwara is a Japanese long-distance motorcyclist and writer. Between May 1987 and August 1999 he travelled across several continents on small motorcycles including a Honda Super Cub, a 50 cc Honda Motra and a Honda Dio scooter. Between March 2004 and May 2008 he completed a 50,552 km (31,412 miles) circumnavigation of the world on a Yamaha Passol electric scooter across 44 countries, on a route including Australia (Sydney to Perth), Thailand, India to Lisbon, South Africa to Kenya, and the United States (New York to San Francisco). The Yamaha Passol weighed 45 kg, had a top speed of 30 km/h and a range of 20 km per charge; with six batteries the range reached 100 km. The journey is considered possibly the first global circumnavigation by electric two-wheeler. Between April 2009 and November 2013 he rode 100,000 km across Japan's major highways on a 50 cc Honda Cub
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Japan, Giappone, Japon
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Moped, Motorino, Cyclomoteur
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://kanichi.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15276096
- 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: Pat Garrod is a British physician and long-distance motorcyclist. Between 1998 and October 2002, he and his wife Vanessa Lewis completed a 160,000 km (100,000 miles) round-the-world ride on a 1991 BMW R100GS. After the circumnavigation, the couple crossed Africa twice more by motorcycle; one north-to-south traversal in 2006 covered more than 20,000 km (12,000 miles), and Garrod's travel log records over 105,000 km (65,000 miles) ridden in Africa alone. He recounted the four-year circumnavigation in his 2010 book Bearback - The World Overland
- 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.theworldoverland.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17505103
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Garrod, Pat. Bearback - The World Overland. Leicester: Troubador Press, 2010.
- 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: Emilio Scotto is an Argentine adventurer, photojournalist and writer. In 1985 he left his job as a sales representative for Pfizer to travel the world on a 1980 Honda Gold Wing GL1100 he called "Black Princess". Over ten years, from 1985 to 1995, he covered 735,000 km (457,000 miles) across 214 countries — a Guinness World Record for the world's longest motorcycle journey by distance. His motorcycle consumed 86 tyres, 12 batteries and 47,000 litres (12,500 gallons) of fuel. During the journey he was arrested as a suspected spy in Burundi, Chad and Cameroon, jailed in Zimbabwe, and stranded in New York City. In 1991 he married Monica Pino in New Delhi; she accompanied him for the final four years. The "Black Princess" is now displayed at the Don's Riverside Car Museum in Laughlin, Nevada
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Argentina
- 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/Emilio_Scotto
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4422464
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Scotto, Emilio. The Longest Ride: My Ten-Year 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey. Minneapolis: Motorbooks, 2007.
- 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 motorcycling couple who hold two former 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. In doing so, they beat the previous Guinness World Record set by Nick Sanders in 1997 by 12½ days, and also surpassed 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 - about 27,357 km (17,000 miles) - in 35 days, breaking the previous record by more than 12 days. Guinness World Records no longer certifies these categories, so these records cannot be challenged as Guinness titles under the current system
- 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
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