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Around-The-World by motorcycle
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= >1350 Motorcycle-TRAVEL-Books in a date-base. Here look in the columne "continent" under Around-The-World.

Maps for all continents
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Information about
> 249 Motorcycle-Tours Around-The-World: 1912 - up to date

Around-The-World by Motorcycle
= Il giro del mondo al moto (Italian) = La Vuelta del Mundo al moto (Spanish) = Autour du monde avec une moto = Lune de Miel (French) = Rond de Wereld met de motor (Dutch) = Motorcylist kör totalt "runt jorden" (Swedish) = Svetovni popotnik na motociklu (Slovenian) = Trotamundos (Latine) = Motorrad-Weltumrunder (German)
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Copyright Bernd Tesch.Motorcycle-WORLD-Travel-Expert. It is free for you to read this and learn out of it. It is not allowed to take off or to publish any information of this without written permission of Bernd Tesch. This all is a part of the book in work "Motorrad-Welt-Reisen" = Motorcycle-Travels Around-The-World. ISBN  3-9800099-8-x.
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First and largest summary in internet and in literature at all about "Around-The-World by Motorcycle". The detailed stories you will find in my in work being book.

I would be grateful if you could help to keep this update ! So far you find many language and grammar mistakes inside because of lack of time. Pardon. Will be corricated and updated with more Around-The-World-Travellers in future. If you find yourself inside or any lack of information please inform me! Bernd Tesch has been working in this field "Around The World" since 1970. In this times I had to write letters and to phone or to visit the World-Around-Travellers to get contact / information. Since 1985 fax helped. In 1991 I visited the most famous motorcycle-travellers in Denmark, in 1993 in Britain, in 1994 in USA and in between many in Europe (France, Germany, Netherland, Switzerland). In 1999-2000 I visited famaous Mc-Travllers in Australia. In october 2000 I saw Alberto Granada, best mc-travel-friend of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in CUBA. Many of  Motorcycle Travellers Around-The-World have been at my yearly Motorcycle-Meeting for World-Travellers in april. In 1998 there have been 20 within 300 participants. In 2000 11 of them. Nobody knows more World-Around-Travellers in person than Bernd Tesch. I own the largest archive of World-Around-Travellers: 10 file-boxes full packed (90 cm wide).

To find all this and all my activities was a "life-long job" and cost me a lot of money. Since many years I am working in a new book called "Motorrad-Welt-Reisen" = Motorcycle-World-Around-Travels. All books about "Around-The-World" by motorcycle which have been published until 1994 are published in my in German written, but very international understandable book called "Motorrad-Abenteuer-Touren" = Motorcycle-Adventure-Tours (432 pp, 500 pictures / drawings. About 264 Motorcyle World-Tours. ISBN 3-9800099-55-5. € 19.90). I own all this books in all languages.

If you are a World-Around-Traveller or plan to do this or "on the road" already or know anyone who is not listed here, please send my any details, addresses, publications, homepages and most important: best pictures.

YOUR summary: PLEASE give me at first a complete view like this EXAMPLE-BLOCK  in THIS STYLE in English. Copy this and overwrite it with your namw / details:

01.10.2011 - 27.10.2012
Sven Müller (German, born-date??)  and Susan Smith (British, born-date??) your http://www.???
Solo Around the World with BMW R 100 GS. 50.000 kms. Sven rode together with Susan Smith (British) who rode a HONDA 500 XL. Route: Europe 12.000 kms (Germany - Austria - Switzerland - Italy - Greek - Turkey ....) - Asia 15.000 kms (Iran - Pakistan - India - Nepal. Bike solo by plane to Singapure. I flew to Singapure. Malaysia - Thailand - back to Singapure). - Australia 16.000 kms (I flew together with bike to Darwin. Around  Australia 16.000 kms. Or offer names like: Darwin - Adelaide - Melbourne - Sydney ...) - North-America (I flew with bike to Los Angeles. LA - New York) - Africa - Europe (Bike by ship to Netherlands / Amsterdam - Germany / Cologne).
Purpose: ?? To find out...
The best: I wanted to find myself. Freedom. Sun. Friendship of  Turkey people. invitation by Pakistani. Climbing the Himalayas........)
The worst: I got Malaria in Nairobi. Attack of soldiers with weapons in Iran.....)...
Important useful informations for others:...
Book or publication (about your tour):...
Earlier motorcyle-travel-expereinces::....

I am very grateful to all the individuals who knew that I am working in this field. They informed me since 1970 worldwide by meeting me, phoning, sending letters, later faxes and emails since 1994 about World-Around-Travellers. Without their help I could not get to this high level. This internet-list had to be done in many days but too quick, because I did not have enough time. So please give me your "pardon" that there are mistakes inside of the information and a lot in my language.
At least you will never have seen such a huge collection of information in internet or literature. Bernd Tesch

Definitions "Around-The-World by motorcycle":

I have had many discussions what you can call a Motorcycle-Tour "Around-The-World". There does not exist only ONE definition. This definition has changed many times by time since 1912 / 3, because the motorcycles who were availbale and the conditions of the known / unknown roads and their infrastructure with water / food / petrol. Some riders thing that you must have done it in ONE tour. Others thing that you must have been in each continent.

American Jim Rogers things that you must have crossed each continent in one tour (covered 6 continents).

Australian David McGonical visited all seven continents (including Antarctica) AND all time-tones with his motorcycle what he did in 1998 !

Ted Simon wrote me during his second RTW tour by mc: I would say that the ideal Round The World by motorcycle would require that the rider and the machine stay together for the whole journey, that the journey is made as one journey, and not as a series of trips, that the distance travelled overland by bike would be at least twice if not three times as long as the distance travelled by other means, that the rider and the bike must cross, at least once, every line of longitude or of latitude (depending on whether it's an east-west or north-south event) and finally that they, the rider and bike, end up at the same place where they started
"Guinness Book for example would not recognize anything that was not one vehicle and one rider and one continuous trip": Information by Jim Rogers.

Kay and Peter Forwood. Peter is the only person who visited all 193 countries of the world by motorcycle. He did it with a Harley Davidson.
"I don't know that there is a need nor a possible definitive answer to what is an around the world trip by motorcycle. Each rider will find a definition that will suit his acheivements, his goals or his conscience. Having said that there are, to me, some plain logical truiths. Doing ten donuts at the north pole does not logically mean you have been around the world ten times, but if it fits your definition, that would be your choice. The distances ridden or not ridden is also an arbitary personal opinion, the number of countries or continents to be visited the same. Anyone claiming to have ridden around the world has their own justification of conscience to consider, a far greater arbitrator than any definition by others. 
Even though our motorcycle finished travelling to all the sovereign countries and inhabited continents in 2008, having covered 500,000 km's along its journey, in our opinion it has only been ridden around the world once, that is a full circumnavigation of the globe above and below the equator (20.07.2011).  

Bernd Tesch thinks that we all should be very tolerant to each other: The earliest Motorcycle-Travellers had quite different conditions like Clancy in 1912 -13. And although British Martyn Swain rode 4,5 years "in the world" he did not make it in total missing an easy last part. But I think the minimum definition is that "the person and the bike/s of this person must have both gone around-the-world". I even think it is interesting to know who planned to ride Around-The-World, and started but did not finish it for different reasons...

Facts and philosophical thoughts of the world
28th.05.2001 send as a copy to me by my GLOBETROTTER-Friend Christa and Heinz Jansen from Bangkok: Wenn wir die ganze Menschheit auf ein Dorf von 100 Einwohner reduzieren würden, aber auf die Proportionen aller bestehenden Völker achten würden, wäre dieses Dorf so zusammengestellt:
If you would reduce the whole inhabitants of the world to one village of 100 people, but would take the proportions of the peolpe of the world, this village would have this inhabitants:

57 Asiaten (Asians
21 Europäer (Europens)
14 Amerikaner (Americans Nord and South)
  8 Afrikaner (Africans)

52 wären Frauen (Women)
48 wären Männer (Men)
70 Nicht-Weiße (Non-Whites)
30 Weiße (Whites)
70 nicht Christen (Not Christians)
30 Christen (Christians)
89 heterosexuelle
11 homosexuelle

 6 Personen würden 59% des gesamten Weltreichtums besitzen und alle 6 Personen kämen aus den USA. 6 persons (=Americans) would own 59 % of the wealthy of the whole world
80 hätten keine ausreichenden Wohnverhältnisse (do not have enough space to live)
70 wären Analphabeten (cannot read and write)
50 wären unterernährt (do not have enough food)
  1 würde sterben (would die)
  2 würden geboren (would be born)
  1 hätte einen PC (owns a PC)
  1 (nur einer) hätte einen akademischen Abschluss (only one has an academic study finished).

Wenn man die Welt aus dieser Sicht betrachtet, wird jedem klar, dass das Bedürfnis nach Zusammengehörigkeit, Verständnis, Akzeptanz und Bildung notwendig ist. Denkt auch darüber nach.

   Falls Du heute Morgen gesund und nicht krank aufgewacht bist, bist Du glücklicher als 1 Million Menschen, welche die nächste Woche nicht erleben werden.
   Falls Du nie einen Kampf des Krieges erlebt hast, nie die Einsamkeit durch Gefangenschaft, die Agonie des Gequälten, oder Hunger gespürt hast, dann bist Du glücklicher als 500 Millionen Menschen der Welt.
   Falls Du in die Kirche gehen kannst, ohne die Angst, dass Dir gedroht wird, dass man Dich verhaftet oder Dich umbringt, bist Du glücklicher als 3 Milliarden Menschen der Welt.
   Falls sich in Deinem Kühlschrank Essen befindet, Du angezogen bist, ein Dach über dem Kopf hast und ein Bett zum hinlegen, bist Du reicher als 75% der Einwohner dieser Welt.
   Falls Du ein Konto bei der Bank hast, etwas Geld im Portemonnaie und etwas Kleingeld in einer kleinen Schachtel, gehörst Du zu 8% der wohlhabenden Menschen auf dieser Welt.
   Falls Du diese Nachricht liest, bist Du doppelt gesegnet worden, denn 1. Jemand hat an Dich gedacht und 2. Du gehörst nicht zu den 2 Milliarden Menschen die nicht lesen können. Und... Du hast einen PC!

Einer hat irgendwann mal gesagt: Liebt, als hätte euch noch nie jemand verletzt. Tanzt, als würde niemand zuschauen. Singt, als würde keiner zuhören. Lebt, als wäre das Paradies auf der Erde.
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Alles Gute in der Freundschaftswoche

How many countries does the World have?
To answer this question exactly is difficult because this changes many times in the earlier years. I never could read a publication about this. Have you seen one? 1985: Emilio Scotto: The 172 countries that were in the world in 1985 now in 1998 are 215.
1998: Peter Forwood informed me that there are 247 countries in 3 categories in the world according to Rand McNally atlas. There are 191 totally independent countries at all.
2001: The German leading book "Fischer Alamach 2001" says: 193 countries

How many people does the World have?
2001 about 1,2 billion (Milliarden) in the industrial countries
2001 about 4,9 billion (Milliarden) in the not industrial countries
2001 about 6,1 billion (Milliarden) in the world
2050 about 1,2 billion (Milliarden) in the industrial countries (UN supposes this)
2050 about 8,2 billion (Milliarden) in the not industrial countries (UN supposes this)
2050 about 9,4 billion (Milliarden) in the world (UN supposes this)

How many land does the World have?
The world is covered with 71 % of water.

Around-The-World by Motorcycle 10-20 billion - 1799
(Summarises by year of start) Plan or experience? You can talk with 300 high experienced Motorcycle-Travellers who rode all continents so far yearly once on the "Tesch-Travel-Treffen for motorcycle World-travellers. In German: Motorrad-FERNREISE-Treffen.
with a yearly changing main subject

How to move by power ?
The idea to move with power of others is very old. In the earliest times peolpe used drafts or boats on the water. Next step possibly was to move by a sledge (= Schlitten) on ice. In the forest then people found out to use a tree on the earth to transport heavy things. Later came the wheel out of it and finally the waggon. Carried by oxes and later horses. But how to use power of machines for move and transport?

The Greek word "automobil" means ("Autos" = selbst = self. "Mobil" = Bewegen = to move) that the thing moves by itself. The question was only how? So people tried many ways: Vehicles moved by power of clocks (= Uhrwerksantrieb (1870 ?) or power of mills (= Windmühlenantrieb) (1760). Vehicles moved by feathers (= Federn), who where wind up and gave power back. People used steam (= Dampf) or gunpowder (= Wasserstoffgas (Schießpulver)) to move .

Before 10-20 billion (= Millarden) years ago
Did the MULIVERSUM (or even unendless MULTIVerse started or exist(ed) somehow ??
Forscher vermuten ja inzwischen, dass unser UNIversum nur eines von vielen anderen sein könnte: Es also ein „MULTIversum“ oder „MULTIVERSEN“ gegeben hat – oder gibt. Als Begründung zum Nachweis führt man an, dass das eine mögliche Antwort auf die Frage sein könnte, was denn VOR dem Urknall, vor unserem UNIversumbeginn gewesen sein könnte. Mir scheint diese Antwort sehr plausibel, da ALLES in unserem UNIversum bewegt ist und es eher unwahrscheinlich ist, dass es VOR dem Urknall plötzlich ruhig und unbewegt gewesen sein soll. Da es natürlich keine Beweise für dieses MULTIversum gibt, sagt man, dass man wegen der großen Entfernungen da nicht hinreisen kann, also nicht außerhalb unseres Universum gelangt.
18.02.2012 B.T.


10-20 billion (= Millarden) years ago (12,5 more correct ??)
Our universe started to exist somehow.

4.5 billion years ago
The Sun and Earth were created. The earth is one of nine big planets of the sun. Possibly out of change of gravity and magnetisme in the universe it was caused that dust attracted each other at first to smaller parts which are getting bigger and bigger. Finally becoming big rocks which attracted each other to big planets. Most of them were attracted by the gravity of the biggest part which is the sun. The nine planets could escape somehow the gravity of the sun and started to circle around the sun. All of the men / women who have been in satelits speak about the "blue planet earth" because about 70 % of the earth is water. Experts say :"Blue is the desert colour of the sea". The sun is about 150 mio kms away from the earth. But the every moment changing sun influences the earth each moment by sending parts and energy to it. 4 billion years ago
Oxygen (Sauerstoff = O) did not exist. Oxygen came out of plants (= Stromatoliten) as a waste. Oxygen went up in the air and protected the earth against harmful Ozon.

1-3 billion years ago
First signs of life on the earth.  After the earth got colder the first cells grew in microbe "Archeos"  (= das Ursprüngliche, the basic). If this cells came by meteroits from other planets or developed on earth is not proved. Identical one-cells developed to more-cells. These animals specialised later into animals with head and tail and eyes. The gene organises everything of the specialisation from inside. 550 mio years ago
The number of animals in the sea exploded.

400 mio years ago
Plants concered at first the earth. Before there was only life in the sea.

370 mio years ago
Out of fishes the first Amphibien developed by getting legs. They discovered the mud-land.

320 mio years ago
Insects became wings. Today insects represent 80 % of the animals. Most are still ants.

170 mio years ago
The One-Piece-Continent on earth separated in two big blocks. The southern part was called Gondwana.

150 mio years ago
The first animals discovered the land (carbs = Pfeilschwanzkrebse). The big Dinosaurier developed.

65 mio years ago
An asteroid killed all Dinosaurier.

25.000 years ago
The "homo sapiens" existed.


20.09.1519 - 07.09.1522
Magellan (= Magalhaes, Fernando de) (Portuguese)
+ Around-The-World by ship first time. Im Auftrage des spanischen Königs Karl I verließ Magellan Spanien mit fünf Schiffen. Er wollte die von Portugal besetzten Molukken (Gewürzinseln) für Spanien zurückholen. Deshalb wollte er diese auf einem neuen Seeweg westlich um die Erde erreichen. Maggelan und dann Elcano umsegelten als erste die Erde.Von fünf Schiffen kam eines zurück, von 237 Mann Besatzung nur 18. Die Gewürze reichten, um die gesamte Fahrt zu finanzieren. Die Fahrt erweiterte gewaltig das Wissen um das  Erdbild, seine Entfernungen und bewies die kugelige Gestalt der Erde.
Route: Spanien (Sanlúcar) - 12.1519 an Rio de Janeiro - ab 10.01.1519 versuchte er vergeblich über die Flußmündung La Plata Amerika zu durchqueren - den Winter verbringt er in der Bucht von San Julián in Patagonien, wo er eine Meuterei niederschlagen muß - bei der Weiterfahrt umsegelt er beim "Kap de las Virgines" in 21 Tagen die etwa 600 km gefährliche Felseninselnstraße, die SAmerka von Feuerland trennt. Sie wurde später nach ihm "Magellan-Straße" genannt -  am 28.11.1520 segelt er in das große Meer ein. Er nannte es den "Stillen Ozean", da er in drei Monaten und 20 Tagen Seegelzeit keinen Sturm erlebte - am 06.03.1521 erreichten er die Ladronen (Diebsinseln, heutige Marianen) - 16.03.1521 an Lazarusinseln (Philippinen) - Magallan versuchte mit Gewalt das Christentum einzuführen, aber Magellan wurde bei einem Kampf am 27.04.1521 auf der philippinischen Insel Matan getötet.  - Unter dem Kommando von Sebastian de Elcano erreichten die beiden verbliebenen Schiffe über Nordborneo (Nordkalimantan) die Maluku (Molucken). Obwohl die Insel von Portugiesen besetzt waren, konnten sie die erwünschten Gewürze tauschen.  Mit nur noch einem seetüchtigen Schiff  "Victoria" traten sie die Heimfahrt an, indem sie die von Portugiesen benutzen Seewege meideten. - Kap der Guten Hoffnung - Kapverden - Spanien (Sanlucar).
B.T.: Maggelan and Elcano were the first humans who circled the world by ship. 1577
Drake, Francis (British)
+ Around-The-World by ship. First British RTW - tour by ship. Francis started with 5 ships in Plymyth, sailed to the Southern Tip of South America, maid it secretly to pass the islands of  Tierra del Fuego, but lost 4 of his ships.

1800 - 1900

1873
Jules Verne (French)
Around-The-World vision. The very well known French writer Jules wrote the phantastic novel (Roman) in which Phileas Fogg won the bed to circle the world in 80 days. This novel became very famous and was translated in many languages. The journey was the expression of dreams of people of that time "to circle the world" after the British finished a railway in India:
B.T. 22.07.2000 This is the first famous book about "Around the world" as a vision.

07.12.1835
1. Zugfahrt 6 km 17,5 km in 13 Minuten von Nürnberg nach Fürth mit einer Dampf-Lokomotive.

1839
1. deutsche Fernbahn "Laxona" (deut. Produkt)

1882-1885
At first there was a bicycle with a big front wheel and a small rear wheel to which a trailer was attachted. I have seen seen an example of this in the "Museo Internationale del SIDECAR" in Cingoli, Italy. Then an American had a pantent: He fit a sidecar to a bicycle with a big front wheel and a small rear wheel.
07.09.01 1st information by Costantino Frontanili.

1884 - 1886
Thomas Stevens (American, 1854 - 1935)
+ Around-The-World by bicycle. 20.000 Meilen mit dem Hochrad Zweirad um die Welt. Von San Francisco nach Teheran. Erste Weltumrundung auf einem Fahrzeug = Fahrrad. Thomas hatte bereits ca. 1885  ca. 8000 miles gefahren, der längste Fahrrad-Trip bisher. 1886 will er es ausdehnen bis er die Welt umrundet hat. Von San Francisco radelt er bis Boston 3700 miles mit einem Fahrrad. Dieses ist die erste Durchquerung Amerikas mit einem Fahrzeug.
Da Thomas die Idee einer Weltumrundung hatte, wurde er als Korrespondent bezahlt. Karl Kron hat 8 Monate mit Thomas Stevens in N.Y. während dessen Aufenthalt dort gesprochen. Die offizielle railroad von S.F. nach N.Y. war damals 3416 miles. Steven schätzt, daß seine Entfernung ca. 200 km länger war. Während dieser Strecke war Stevens gezwungen sein Hochrad 1/2 bis 1/3 des Weges zu schieben.
Book: 1888. Von Teheran nach Jokohama (in German)
Book: 1984. Around the world on a bicycle (in English)
Book: 1984. 20.000 Meilen mit dem Hochrad um die Welt 1884-1886. Verlag: Thienemanns. Germany. Stuttgart. ISBN 3-??
421 S. DM 39,00 (in German)
B.T. 1991: The first known tour by bicycle Around-The-World.

1885
First Motorcycle (called Motor - Rad) from Gottlieb Daimler
1 - Zyl. Viertakt - Motor. 264 ccm. 0,5 PS (0,37 kw). Max 12 km/Std.



Li: Ein Hochrad. Re: In 1880 Herr Springorum in Hellenthal / EIFEL mit einem Hochrad. Das hat nichts mit dem Bericht zu tun, sondern soll nur einmal solche ein Fahrrad mit Person zeigen. Leider kann ich die Quelle des Bildes nicht mehr finden. Das foto war in einem EIFELbuch. - Re: Hochrad gesehen in Australien 2005 irgendwo stehen. Vermutlich ein Nachbau.

01.11.1889 Start - ??.??18??
(G)eorge W(illiam) Burston (Australian, 1859-1924) and H.R. Stokes (Australians)
Kopierfehler ?? Tomas G. Allen and William L. Sachtleben (Americans)
+ Around-The World by bicycle.
Route: Melbourne in 1888-89. Australia (Melbourne -Sydney. By steamship to Brisbane) By ship to Asia (-Batavia -around Java - by ship to Singapore - by ship to India (Calcutta). After riding in India they travelled by ship to Egypt and rode in Palestine and Syria. This was followed by another sea voyage to Turkey) - by ship to Europe (Italy ( Sicily and Naples) - through Italy - Switzerland - Germany - Holland - by ship to Britain and rode extensively in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland). - They returned to Australia via the United States but did not ride there.
Book: Round about the world on bicycles: the pleasure tour of G.W. Burston and H.R. Stokes, Melbourne Bicycle Club, Australia. Burston, G. W. viii, 315 p. 1 port. 19 cm. George Robertson. 1890. English. 1890 in Australasianaußerdem veröffentlicht.
09.08.2000 1st information by Professor Dr. Hans-Erhard Lessing in his book new edited book in German language: Horstmann, Heinrich: "Meine Radreise um die Erde". = "My bicycle tour Around-The World". ISBN 3-931965-06-6.
Im November 1888, mit HR Stokes, unternahm er eine Weltreise: sie waren die ersten Australier dieses zu tun, und gehört zu den wenigen weltweit Radfahrer, die Fahrt auf Hochrad-Maschinen zu erreichen. G.W. Burston helped to found the Melbourne Bicycle Club in 1878, and in 1893 the League of Victorian Wheelmen. Er machte noch mindestens drei weitere Radtouren als Auslandsreisen.

Summary out of: http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/408343/bicycle-h-bassett-co-melbourne-george-burston-1888

High wheel bicycle of the 'ordinary' or 'spider' type with a 1.422m (56-inch) wheel. This 'Victory' model was assembled in Melbourne from Imported components by Henry Bassett & Co., Melbourne in 1888-89. The frame was nickel-plated. This bicycle was used by Melbourne Bicycle Club member (later President) George Burston on a "round-the-world' bicycle journey in 1889-90. Along with his companion H.R. Stokes, Burston left Melbourne on 1 November 1889 and rode to Sydney. The by steamship to Brisbane-Batavia. They rode around Java and then went by ship to Singapore and Calcutta. After riding in India they travelled by ship to Egypt and rode in Palestine and Syria. This was followed by another sea voyage to Turkey, Sicily and Naples. After riding through Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Holland they boarded a ship to Britain and rode extensively in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. They returned to Australia via the United States but did not ride there. The journey was recorded in their limited edition book "Round the World on Bicycles' (George Robertson, 1890).

1892 - 1894
Frank Lenz (German -American, 1867 - 1894)
Planned to circle the world by bicycle.
Route: USA (New York) - Germany - Kurdestan. Here he was murdered by 5 Kurdistan people.
09.08.2000 1st information by Professor Dr. Hans-Erhard Lessing in his book new edited book: Hortsmann, Heinrich: "Meine Radreise um die Erde". ISBN 3-931965-06-6.



Annie Londonderry. out of: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/973/breaking-away/

1894 ( 25.06.1894 - 24.09.1895 an Chicago)
Anny Londonderry (= Anna Kopchovsky, American, 1870 oder 1871 in Lettland; † 11. November 1947 in New York))
+ Around-The-World by bicycle. She made a bet of  US $ 10.000 that she could circle the world by bicyle starting without any money and come home with Mark 40.000.
Book:
09.08.2000 1st information by Professor Dr. Hans-Erhard Lessing in his book new edited book: Horstmann, Heinrich: "Meine Radreise um die Erde". ISBN 3-931965-06-6.
Purpose: Der angebliche Grund für ihre Reise war eine Wette zwischen zwei Geschäftsleuten aus Boston, die behauptet haben sollen, dass eine Frau eine solche Reise nicht schaffen würde. Diese Wette ist allerdings genau so wenig verbürgt wie die Bedingungen, nach denen sie ohne Geld losfahren, aber 5000 Dollar mit zurückbringen sollte. Um dieses Geld zu verdienen, machte Anna Kopchovsky Werbung, unter anderem für ein Mineralwasser namens Londonderry, weshalb sie für die Fahrt den Namen Annie Londonderry annahm.
Route: N-Amerika (USA, Boston-Chicago. Für diese Strecke brauchte sie vier Monate, was zum einen an falscher Kleidung (langer Rock, geschlossene Bluse) zum anderen am falschen Fahrrad (zu schwer) lag. So gelang es ihr nicht, vor Wintereinbruch die Berge in Richtung Westen zu überqueren. Deshalb beschloss sie, in die entgegengesetzte Richtung nach New York in geeigneter Kleidung (Pluderhosen, Männerjacke) und mit einem leichteren Fahrrad zurückzufahren. - Von New York bestieg per Schiff nach Frankreich. Per Fahrrad von Le Havre nach Marseille - per Schiff....bis ??. Am 23. März 1895 kam sie in San Francisco an. Welche Städte und Länder sie in der Zwischenzeit besuchte und welche Strecken sie mit dem Fahrrad fuhr, ist nicht genau nachzuprüfen. Sicher sind Stationen wie Singapur und Saigon, aber ein von ihr behaupteter Abstecher auf die Schlachtfelder des Japanisch-Chinesischen Krieges ist eher unwahrscheinlich – so wie viele andere Geschichten, die sie unterwegs oder nach ihrer Rückkehr erzählte.
Publications: She did not write a book. Nach 24. September 1895: Es erschien noch ein von ihr verfasster Bericht in einer New Yorker Tageszeitung. Danach gerieten sie und ihre Großtat ins Vergessen.
Books: Peter Zheutlin: Around the World on Two Wheels. Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride. New York 2007. ISBN 978-3-931965-07-5. Publisher Citadel, Hardover. 260 pp. English. ISBN-10: 0806528516. ISBN-13: 978-0806528519. Size: 20,8 x 14,7 x 2,5 cm.
The Italian edition, Il Giro Del Mondo in Bicicletta: La straordinaria avventura di una donna alla conquista della liberta was published by elliio edizione, Rome, Italy, 2011, ISBN 978-88-6192-204-4, paperback 330 pages.
I can't even read the title in Korean! The ISBN is 978-89-94142-06-7. Mizibooks 2010. Paperback  256 pages. With google-translater: "1884 Annie Londonderry rode bike around the world"
20.02.2012 http://www.annielondonderry.com
U.S. in 2007. Although the rights for  German edition were sold to a small publisher in Germany (the same one that  published some of Prof. Lessing's books), they never did publish the book. There are Korean and Italian editions, and one yet to come in Czech.

Out of: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/973/breaking-away/
Annie Londonderry on June 25, 1894, the day she officially began her trip
“I bet twenty thousand pounds . . . that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less,” declares Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s 1872 classic Around the World in Eighty Days. By the 1880s, several real-life daredevils had sworn that they could do Verne’s hero one better. In a publicity stunt that captured attention around the world, an enterprising journalist named Nellie Bly combined the hot topics of around-the-world travel and women’s liberation by circling the globe in just seventy-two days; Thomas Stevens, meanwhile, took advantage of the cycling craze and did it on two wheels (though the trip took him 103 days).

And then there was Annie Kopchovsky. Neither a dashing journalist nor an accomplished athlete, Kopchovsky was a Latvian immigrant living in a tenement in Boston with her husband and three young children. Spying the unlikeliest of business opportunities for someone in her position, she boasted to the press that she intended to bicycle around the globe in fifteen months, raising money for her journey along the way. To give her braggadocio additional spice, she claimed that two businessmen had made a wager on whether or not she would succeed. By the time she left Boston in 1895, Kopchovsky had attracted enough attention that the Londonderry Lithia Spring Water Company paid her $100 to adopt the surname “Londonderry” for the duration of her trip.

From Trinidad to Jerusalem, the newly global media covered Kopchovsky. In the end, she may have done more bragging than biking—often as not, it seems, she took the train. But her audiences, like Verne’s, were spellbound by her real and fabricated tales of adventure.

The legend of Annie Londonderry had been largely forgotten by the time Kopchovsky’s great-grandnephew, Peter Zheutlin, a journalist and avid bicyclist, discovered her story. He also discovered Mary, a distant cousin, who filled in the details missing from the public record—like the fact that Kopchovsky’s daughter scandalized the family by converting to Catholicism and becoming a nun. His new book, Around the World on Two Wheels, recounts Annie’s private and personal tales.
Erhard Lessing: The first known tour Around-The-World  by bicycle by a woman.


1894
Heinrich and Wilhelm Hildebrand and Alois Wolfmüller founded the first Motorcycle-Fabric.
Until 1896 they build more than 1000 Motorcycles: Wassergekühlter 2 - Zyl. Viertakt - Motor. 1488 ccm. 2,5 PS (1,85 kw). Ca. 40 km/h. Glührohrzündanlage.
B. T.: The first motorcycle build in series.


02.05.1895 - 08.08.1897
Heinrich Horstman (German, 30.10.1875 - 04.05.1945)
+ Around-The-World by bicycle.  20-years old Heinrich cycled solo Around-the-World by biycycle in 27 months.
Route: Germany (Wuppertal)  - Belgium - England - USA - Hawaii - Japan - Hong Kong - Singapore - India (Kalkutta) - by ship to Egypt - Italy - Slowenien - Austria - Germany (Wuppertal)
This in German written book was edited by H.-E. Lessing again in 2000. 320 pp. DM 39,80. Verlag: Maxi Kutschera. Book: Book: "Meine Radreise um die Erde". Verlag: Darmen. 1897. 296 S.
There should only be ONE original book exist in the library of town Wuppertal.
2000: "Meine Radreise um die Erde". ISBN 3-931965-06-6. This in German written book was new edited by Prof. Dr. H.-E. Lessing again in 2000. 320 pp. DM 39,80. Verlag: Maxi Kutschera. Germany . Leipzig. Tel.  0049 (0) 341-4011884. Fax 0049 (0) 341-4011881. Email Maxime-Verlag@t-online.de
12.1998 1st information by Professor Dr. Hans-Erhard Lessing about the original book.
31.07.2000. 2nd information by Corinna Gehring about the new book.
Erhard Lessing: The first known tour Around-The-World  by bicycle from a German.


1899
John Forster Fraser (American, 1868 - 1936)
+ Around-The-World by bicycle. Round the world on a wheel.
John fuhr mit S. Eduard Lunn und F.H. Lowe in 774 Tagen mit dem Fahrrad durch 17 Länder in drei Kontinenten und bewältigte 19.287 Meilen. Ab 07.1896 fuhr er auch durch Sibirien.
Book: 1. edition 1899. Verlag: Thomas Nelson und Sons (in English).
Book: 1989. 512 pp. 41 chapters. Papeback. Verlag: Futura Publ. England. London. ISNM-0708842682. (in English).
08.10.1993 1st information by Paul Pratt


1900
NSU. In the first  year of production of  Motorcycles of the firm NSU (NeckarSUlm, founded in 1892) they produced 100 motorcycles and 7000 bicycles. NSU invented the suspension of the front fork and sold later huge peaces of  NSU-motorcycles.


1900
Jean de la Hire (pseudonym of the Comte Adolphe d'Espie. French, 28.01.1878-1956)
During his lifetime, he authored more than 300 novels and short-stories, some published with more than 100,000 issues, the most popular being his super-science works.
Book or publication ??: "Le tour du Monde de deux enfants". Coll: Les Aventures Illustree, Ed. F. Férenczie et Fils. Paris ca. 1900. Motorrad-Reise ??
02.09.2011 First information by Rudolf von Bergen. He does NOT own this.
02.09.2011 Acknowledgement of B.T. This can be only a vision (Roman) of a motorcycle-tour Around the World.
Even if this is a vision (science fiction) article or book or illustration-book. It would be the very first book about RTW.
But after my recherches in internet it has nothing to do with motorcycles and was published in 1922 first time, not in 1900
02.09.2011 First request for exact translation To Dr. habil Ute Rogner. And if she can organise a good copy for me. Best would be a scan.
02.09.2011 B.T. read what is written in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_la_Hire
I cannot find this title above.
02.09.2011 Aus internet: "Tenez-vous bien : je viens d'être contacté par un éditeur turc qui recherche le détenteur des droits du roman "Le tour du monde de deux enfants" de Jean de La Hire, paru chez Ferenczi en 1922". Des idées ?
Jean De La Hire: "Around the world zwei Kinder":
Aus Internet: http://litteraturepopulaire.winnerbb.net/t875-collection-le-tour-du-monde-de-2-enfants-ferenczi.
Novel in 71 Lieferungen Format 15X24 cm.


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