Elspeth Beard was the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle, traveling 35,000 miles on her BMW R60/6. The journey took her 2 years, from 1982-1984.
Elspeth Beard was the first Englishwoman to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle, traveling 35,000 miles on her BMW R60/6. The journey took her 2 years, from 1982-1984.
These stories are wild to me. Like, one either has to be born of wealth, or have someone willing to give you their money, for you to do some wild random shit for shits and giggle. And Just to say I did it first.
> In Thailand, she collided with a dog and recuperated with a local family who fed her the remains of the dog she had crashed into
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She some [wild](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elspeth_Beard) adventures:
– Start: New York City (bike shipped from UK) —> Canada —> Mexico —> US again before shipping bike to Sydney.
– Sydney: Ran out of money, worked at a pub for 7 months
– Queensland: Ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks after an accident
– Singapore: Replaced major documents and gear which were stolen, 6 weeks.
– Thailand: Recovered after crashing into a dog, and a local family fed her its remains.
– Pujab region: The whole state was closed due to the then prime minister’s assassination, so she forged a permit to get out.
– Then she went to Pakistan, then back to Europe through Turkey.
Triatt on
Not the first person, not the first woman but the first Englishwoman! The feat is the impressive part but we tend to focus so much on its timing. Like someone can invent teleportation on a Monday but if someone on the other side of the world independently did the same on Tuesday, they’ll be forever on the shadow of the other inventor. So we have to stack details on the title to make it more relevant. Granted mine is a bad example because Nobel prizes do take this into account nowadays, but my point stands for Non Nobel achievements.
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Brave woman
she was posh , had lots of money and a craving for foreign boaby
In Thailand, she collided with a dog and recuperated with a local family who fed her the remains of the dog she had crashed into. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elspeth_Beard
These stories are wild to me. Like, one either has to be born of wealth, or have someone willing to give you their money, for you to do some wild random shit for shits and giggle. And Just to say I did it first.
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elspeth_Beard)
> In Thailand, she collided with a dog and recuperated with a local family who fed her the remains of the dog she had crashed into
She some [wild](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elspeth_Beard) adventures:
– Start: New York City (bike shipped from UK) —> Canada —> Mexico —> US again before shipping bike to Sydney.
– Sydney: Ran out of money, worked at a pub for 7 months
– Queensland: Ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks after an accident
– Singapore: Replaced major documents and gear which were stolen, 6 weeks.
– Thailand: Recovered after crashing into a dog, and a local family fed her its remains.
– Pujab region: The whole state was closed due to the then prime minister’s assassination, so she forged a permit to get out.
– Then she went to Pakistan, then back to Europe through Turkey.
Not the first person, not the first woman but the first Englishwoman! The feat is the impressive part but we tend to focus so much on its timing. Like someone can invent teleportation on a Monday but if someone on the other side of the world independently did the same on Tuesday, they’ll be forever on the shadow of the other inventor. So we have to stack details on the title to make it more relevant. Granted mine is a bad example because Nobel prizes do take this into account nowadays, but my point stands for Non Nobel achievements.