Around-The-World by Motorcycle
(Summarises by year of start)
1971-1974
1971 - 2000 Georges Gouron (French, born 28.10.1944) www.??
+ Around The World.
1971-1974
Georges Gouron (French, born 28.10.1944)
Around Australia and Tasmania. I went to
Australia in 1970. In 1971 with a friend I rode a 650 BSA Lightning from Sydney
to Cairns through the interior. First discovery of the Australian landscape
and the harshness of the sun in the bush. My friend made the mistake to wear
shorts one day. Next one he was so burnt he could not climb on the bike ! Luckily
I was not so foolish, even in those days, to ride a motorcycle wearing shorts
! In 1972 I left Sydney with an old car and drove to Darwin picking up a french
guy (Patrick) in Queensland. From Cairns we went inland as far as Charleville
where we got stuck a few days due to a flood. Resumed the trip through a grasshopers
cloud then past giant termite mounds. Hit a bull on the road before reaching
Darwin. Then we hitchiked from Darwin down to Perth where we bought a VW beetle
and rode to Adelaide across the Nullarbor Plain. From Adelaide up to Alice Springs
and Mt Isa. Got lost between Mt Isa and the Birdsville track. Down the Birdsville
track to Adelaide and on to Melbourne where we arrived after one year of traveling.
1974 saw Patrick and I riding around Tasmania, a motorcycle haven.
Highlights: In those days the roads were still dirt ! Finding our way
back to the Birdsville track thanks to a ranch owner !
The worst: Getting lost between Mt Isa and the Birdsville track !
21.01.01 1st information by Petra Schommer and Ralf Paaske
23.01.01 1st answer by Georges
1975 - 1977
Georges Gouron (French, born 28.10.1944) www.??
France - India - Singapore - Australia. Went back from Australia to France by boat in 1975. Took my girlfriend and her
Suzuki GT 250 as well as my Suzuki GT 750 (2 stroke watercooled) with me. We
toured Europe on both bikes. Then I crashed mine on a roundabout by a foggy
night. Worked in a banque, bought another Suzuki GT 750. In 1976 we shipped
back the 250 and decided to go back overland with the 750. Got enough 2 stroke
oil to last me the trip and we left France in April 1976. We had snow in Italy,
snow in Greece and even snow in Turkey. Istambul is a great place. We travelled
east through Cappadocia, a beautiful part of Turkey with stunning landscapes.
We were warned by travellers than further east kids were pretty rough, asking
for cigarettes and throwing stones at vehicles. Soon we got the treatment. Having
been warned, each time I saw kids waving by the roadside. I would slow down
to first gear, put my blinkers and pretend to stop, but instead I would give
full throttle and charge at them. They scattered and by the time they threw
their stones I was out of reach. It worked well. From Turkey to Iran where we
crashed into a garbage truck. Went to court, did not said a word and won the
case ! The driver not only had to pay for the repair but also to lodge us in
his house until it was ready ! Then it was Afghanistan. Broke down before Kandahar.
Got a lift in town where the local mechanice had to manufacture new shaft bearing
himself. Meanwhile we had tea and haschich everyday until the bike was ready.
Great country and great people. Through the Kyber pass to Pakistan then to India.
Down to Madras where we shipped to Singapore and shipped again to Perth. Got
to Perth in time, the hand made bearing had done their jobs. They were replaced
by original ones and we rode across the Nullarbor (now all bitumen) to Melbourne.
Voilà HIGHLIGHTS: Cappadocia in Turkey. Afghanistan
21.01.01 1st information by Petra Schommer and Ralf Paaske
23.01.01 1st answer by Georges
1979 - 1982
Georges Gouron (French, born 28.10.1944) www.??
USA - Mexicio - Bolivia - Mexico. Bought
a new Suzuki GT 750 end of 1978. In September we flew to San Francisco (USA)
and rode down California to Mexico. In Guadalajara I joined with Patrick who
was coming from Canada with his Honda 750 and we travelled together. We did
a grand tour of Mexico then went to Belice. Got stuck for 2 weeks in Belice
City thanks to the flood. Eventually we managed to ride and waddle through to
reach the border with Guatemala. At the border I checked the oil. Gosh it was
a paste ! So I changed it before we continued through mud to Tikal (Took us
more than one hour for the last 4 km). People there got excited. They were stuck
since 10 days and thought the road was reopened. But when they saw our bikes
covered in mud they just sigh ! But Tikal was just worse the trouble. More mud
was waiting for us before geaching Guatemala City. Went to Antigua, Lake Atitlan,
etc . then passed into Salvador then in civil war. We pulled up the French flag
to show we were not yankees otherwise we would have been shot. In town we were
many times accosted by groups of tough people thinking we were American but
we always talked our way out and often had drink with them once they understood
their mistake. From Salvador to Honduras then Nicaragua also in civil war. In
Granada we spent a good hour before convincing a young guy armed with a machine
gun that we were not yankees and had nothing to do with them. Reluctantly he
let us go but it was touch and go. Costa Rica was a relief then we rode to Panama
through a deluge. From Panama we flew the bikes to Quito. Went down to Guayaquil
where an earthquake shook us out of bed in the middle of the night. No damage
for us or the bikes. Left Guayaquil for Peru, rode down the coast then up the
Andes to Huaraz (fantastic scenery) down to the coast again and to Lima. Up
the Andes to La Oroya (alt 4887m) and from there to Cuzco along the Andes. It
was still the wet season and the dirt road was mud. It was slow going with lots
of falls. The brakes were blocked by the mud so sometimes the falls were voultary,
to avoid a greater fall down the Andes ! But we reached Cuzco where Patrick's
Honda packed up. No parts in town nor in Lima neither in Bolivia. A general
bought his bike so we split. Patrick continued by bus and I still with my Suzuki
which was working perfectly. So we met at prearranged places. In La Paz (Bolivia)
we saw that we could not go much further because money. So we started the trip
back to Mexico. From there Patrick went back to Canada. I stayed a bout a year
in Mexico, working in a hotel then sold the bike which had developed some problems
and with the money went back by bus or hitchiking to Bolivia. Then flew back
to Australia on the last day of my visa.
HIGHLIGHTS : Too many. In fact the whole trip.
THE WORSE (at the time, now one of the best memory): The scary moment
in Nicaragua. The ride to Tikal and the ride through the muddy Andes
21.01.01 1st information by Petra Schommer and Ralf Paaske
23.01.01 1st answer by Georges
July 1999 - July 2000
Georges Gouron (now French / Australian, still born in France 28/10/1944,
just getting older all the time)
North- Central- and Around South America.
email : georgesgouron@hotmail.com
Georges toured solo with bis bike a YAMAHA XJ 900 DIVERSION caalled "Ozzie" from Australia by plane to USA - Mexico - Belice - Guatemala - El Salvador -
Honduras - Nicaragua - Costa Rica and Panama - by plane to Equador - Peru -
Bolivia - Chile - Argentina (Usuaiha) - Chile - Argentina (Buenos Aires) - Paraguay
- Argentina - Brazil - Venezuela - by flight to GB - Scotland - GB - Holland,
Belgium, Germany - Austria, Switzerland - Austria, Switzerland.
Back in Australia joined the Public Service ! Bought various bikes then the
greatest of them all in 1988: a Yamaha XJ 900 with which I covered 205.000 kms
trouble free. In 1998 I decided it was time to shake the cobwebs from the Public
Service. So I bought a YAMAHA XJ 900 DIVERSION and in 1999 I retired from the
Public service. I flew Ozzie (my bike) to L.A in USA where I joined
her right away and we rode together to Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley,
Mesa Verde Nat Park before heading down to Mexico. At the border I meet
with Pete, Phil and Lucas, 3 nice American riders. We'll ride together till
Guadalajara. They then turn back and I keep going on through Mexico, Belice, Guatemala (now the road to Tikal is paved !). In Antigua met Ralf and
Petra at the Post office. Then I go down to Lake Atitlan, a gem. Then it is
down to El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Panama
I fly the bike to Quito in Equador, then myself to Quito ! Surprise !
Ozzie is not there ! Bastard have not send it yet. It was due to come by Continental
Airlines (DO NOT USE THAT AIRLINE). After a week of furious calls they eventually
send it. Unfortunately the volcano in Quito start to erupt. Flight are diverted
to Guayaquil. Another week pass and Ozzie is still stuck in Guayaquil. Enough
is enough. I pack up, catch the night bus to Guayaquil and go to the airport.
I start the paper works to clear the bike (it's 09h00) when I see 4 people coming
in, helmet in hands. 2 of them are Petra and Ralf, the other 2 are Renate and
Gino. So we all clear our bikes together and are out by 16h00. I go back to
Quito with everybody than Renate. Gino and I decide to travel together, Petra
and Ralf being faster. So down it is to Peru, up a shit road to Huaraz,
down a good one to the coast, Lima, Nazca, Cuzco, La Paz in Bolivia.
Up to 5200m, crossing the Chilian border at 4667 m and down in Arica
Chile in 150 km of descent. Through the Chilian desert to Puerto Montt, across
to Argentina, windy Patagonia, cold Tierra del Fuego and lousy roads
down to Ushuaia where we meet again with Petra and Ralf, Mark, Uwe and
a few others and we all greet the New Year in Ushuaia. Then it's back to Chili and the glacier Perito Moreno, back to windy Patagonia up Argentina to
Buenos Aires. Uwe leaves us. Renate and Gino go to Rio via Iguazu Falls and
back to Germany. Mark and I go to Uruguay. Mark leaves from Montevideo
to England. I'm back by myself across Paraguay, Argentina again,
Iguazu falls, Brazil (I reach Rio on Carnaval day) up to Belem. Ozzie
and I take a river boat to Manaus and back on the road to Caracas in Venezuela from where we fly to London. After a few days with Mark (thank you ) since I
live in the South of France I take the short way through Wales and Scotland then Holland, Belgium, Germany where I'm welcomed by Renate
and Gino (Thanks guys), Austria, Switzerland and then down South
to France where I'm bored !
HIGHLIGHTS : the whole trip
THE WORSE : now
Sorry mate Bernd: I'm afraid i've been a bit long but it's easy to get carried
away
21.01.01 1st information by Petra Schommer and Ralf Paaske
23.01.01 1st answer by Georges
15.05.1970 - 05.01.1971
Doughlas Hill (born 28.08.1934, Oakland, CA, USA) and girl
friend Barbara R. Dorsey (CA, USA).
? Around-The-World. Both routes
with two BMWR 75/5. They were both life-enhancing and life changing.
Started from Berkeley on a 1970 BMW R75/5. Drove to east coast of USA, where
we embarked on a Yugoslav freighter that was scheduled to go to Tangier, Morocco
in 9 days. It actually went to Marseille in 37 days. From there we travelled
to Spain, crossed at Algcerias to Tangier, Morocco, travelled through that country
for about one month, then through Algeria to Tunisia, there we took a ferry
which went to Naples, Italy. Cross the Italian peninsula, and from Brindisi
took another ferry to Corfu, Greece. Then another ferry to Athens, and finally
another ferry to Haifa, Israel. We had friends living in Jerusalem, so spent
some time there, and sold the bike to a Canadian couple and flew back. Didn't
try to ship bike because of an East Coast of the US dock strike, and didn't
go further because at that time the Indians/Pakistanis were fighting over their
shared border.
Route: USA (California, Berkeley to the East Coast) - by freighter to
Europe (France, Marseille - Spain) - Africa (Morocco - Algeria - Tunisia) -
by ferry to Europe (Italy - Greece) - Israel. Bike was sold.
15.05.1973
- 10.12.1973
Doughlas Hill (born 28.08.1934, Oakland, CA, USA) and girl
friend Barbara R. Dorsey (CA, USA).
Route: Flew from USA
(San Francisco) - to Europe (Germany, München. Bought a new BMW R 75 (factory
delivery) in Munich - Austria - Yugoslavia - Greece - Turkey) - Asia (Iran - Afghanistan
- Pakistan - India - Nepal - India). Shipped the bike bike back from India (Calcutta)
via Bankok to Tokyo to USA (California, San Francisco).
Highlights:
The religiosity of India, the scenery in Kashmir, Varanasi for the rituals of
the Hindu religion. The people we met, both fellow travellers and natives; some
remarkable experiences.
The worst: Being unable to leave Kabul, Afghanistan,
because they had a coup d'etat, tossing out King Mohammed (who is back now, after
the US incursion). Borders were closed, and it is VERY difficult to stay healthy
in Afghanistan - getting clean food and water is very dicey.
Tip: Be
sure your home base is covered while you are away; have trusted accountant / lawyer
who can disburse money for your bills, etc, and deal with whatever happens.
Book / publication: No.
Useful tips: On the first trip, the
BMW had California plate; this would have been difficult in some countries at
that time starting with Turkey. Getting the new bike in Germany, and acquiring
a "carnet de passage" from the Deutche Automobil Club, and having a
registration book in several languages, was a great help.
Earlier experiences: These trips were taken after Barbara and I had travelled together from California
up to British Columbia (via the coast route, highway.
06.03.2000 First letter.
Intends to take another long trip like this in a couple of years.
21.02.2002
Just bought a BMW R 1150 RT (2002): "I am getting wanderlust BIG TIME".
23.02.2002 "I'll seriously consider coming to Belgium
to the "25th Motorcycle Meeting for World-Travellers" aapril 2003".
B.T.: In an additional letter I found out
that Barbara and Doughlas did not marry. In 1971-73 Doughlas met only some Aussies
in Yugoslavia, and a German chap in Afghanistan (who was on his way back home
from Nepal by bike). He does not have the names. In 1973 the eastern 40 miles
or so of Turkey on the GT road were gravel; other than that, it was all paved
roads - some a lot better than others, obviously.
< 1973
Rosdail J. Hart
Book. Bicycle:
- Biking Alone Around the World. Africa, New Zealand and Australia. 1973. OUT OF PRINT. ISBN: 0682475416
07.1973 - 11.1973
Anne-France Dautheville (French)
+ Around-The-World. .
Books: World-Tour: Et j'ai suivi le vent (in French). German translation:
Der Wind war mein Begleiter. Solo France-Pakistan-France in 1972 with Moto Guzzi
750: Une demoiselle sur une Moto (in French). 1982 South America: La Piste de
l'or. German translation: Wohin der Wind mich trieb (Start 19.03.1981 21.000
kms through 8 South American countries).
1998 Anne-France refused to meet Bernd Tesch in France although I saw her in
person in her garden. She does not want to have to do anything with mc-travels
of her earlier life anymore.
B.T: The journalist and writer Anne-France ist the
first women who rode solo around the world on a bike somehow. 3 continents and
20.000 kms with a Kawasaki (125 ccm)
Clement Salvadori in 2009 in in Arizona – in the Hualapai Indian Reservation on the only road which goes to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
Right: Clement in 1973 fixing a flat near the Banihal Tunnel on the road to Indian Kashmir.
05.09.1973 - 01.03.1975
Clement Salvadori (American, born 20th.01.1940 in Potsdam, New York, USA) no www.
+ Around-The-World. Clement rode solo on a BMW R 75/5 ca. 72.000 kms in 5 five continents in 26 different
countries.
Route: From Europe on a long hippyway to India. Europe (Italy
(Rom) - Greece - Turkey) Asia (Iran - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India
- Nepal - India) - by ship to Africa (Kenya (Mombassa) - Tanzania - Zambia
- Botswana - Rhodesia (before it became Zimbabwe) - South Africa - by ship to Australia (Western Australia - across the Nullabor Plain , up to Ayers
Rock, to Queensland and Sydney - by ship to New Zealand) - by ship to North-America (Panama - Costa Rica - Nicaragua - Honduras - El Salvador - Guatemala - Mexico
- USA). In California Clement sold his BMW R75/5 and bought a low mileage
BMW R60/5. Back to Mexico - there he stayed 15 months. Since may 30, 1976 Clement
head north: USA - Canada - Alasca - back Canada - USA (Massachusetts).
Highlights: The culture and history and beauty of Afghanistan. Being
shown New Zealand by Motorcycling author Barry Crump.
The Worst: A crash in Zambia. Apartheid in South Africa.
Other countries Clement has ridden in, since beginning in 1956:
Andorra, Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bosnia, Bulgaria,
Crotaia, Czech Pep., Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary,
Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Morocco,
Nethelands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Tiber / China, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yugloslawia.
Clement is a very high experienced and wellknown American-Mc-TRAVEL-Journalist.
Book: Motorcycle Journeys Through Baja.
Book: Motorcycle Journeys Through California.
Book: 2009, 101 Road Tales
1994 Bernd Tesch visited Clement and "Sue" Susan in USA. Clement: "It was a marvellous
trip. I was a fortune human being to do this".
1994 Clement wanted to make a 60 days trip around the world, just for fun. But:
He cannot leave his 5 cats alone for so long time...
04.2003 Promised in 2000 to be a participant of the
25thTesch-Meeting for Mc-World-Travellers in 2003..
30th.03.2011 Clement send two fotos.
17.09.1973 - 01.03.1981
Ken Gawenda (American /Australian dual citizen) www. ???
+ Around-The-World. Ken
rode 216.000 kms solo and with a variety of other bikes and passengers
on a BMW R 60/5 through 4 different continents in 40 different countries.
Route: North America (USA (Detroit, Michigan)) - flew to Europe (Germany and bought a BMW R60/5 - southeast to Turkey (Istanbul)) - Asia (Iran - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India with sidetrips to Kashmir and Nepal
- from India (Madras (Chennai)) by ship to Malaysia (Penang) - Singapore - by
ship to Australia (Fremantle/Perth in Western Australia). There he worked
for a while to recuperate his fortunes, and then continued east to Sydney by
ship to North-America (Panama - rode north through Central America to
the USA - Canada. Six months later he headed south again, riding to riding
to Mexico then back to the US - shipping the bike to Australia via New
Zealand over South America (Venezuela - Columbia - Ecuador - Peru, and
crossing the Andes into Bolivia. At Riberalta he put himself and his bike on
a barge being pushed down the Rio Madeira, a tributary of the Amazon River,
but unfortunately his barge sank, with the R60/5 still on board). That was the
end of that trip.
Ken eventually emigrated to Australia, where he is now the Learning Facilitator
at the Matilda Bay Brewing Company in Perth, married, children, and several
motorcycles on which he has traversed much of the Australian outback.
Highlights: Meeting the Dalai Lama in Mcleod Gange. Riding through the
Kyber Pass. Himilayas. Andes.
The Worst: Losing the bike in the Rio Mamore in Bolivia.
Book: No
Ken and Clement met in Teheran Iran in October of 1973 and rode together through
Afganistan to India and Nepal. Clem went to Africa and I went to Malaysia
in South East Asia and took a boat from Singapore to Perth W. Australia arriving
in late January 1974. Clem turned up in Perth around May or June and stayed
at my place for a few weeks. We parted ways again and I continued working until
August 1974 and then headed over to Sydney and caught a boat to Panama. Arrived in Panama in November and rode up through Central America to Mexico.
It was still too cold so I went back to Guatemala and
accidently met Clem in Guatemala City in January 1975. We rode together
until we crossed into the US a month or so later.
And rode back to the US together.
14.08.2000 1st information by Clement Salvadori
08.02.2001 Kenneth will try to join the 25th Meeting
for Mc-WORLD-Travellers in april 2003
1987-2001 Ted Simons book in German: "Jupiters Fahrt". - His book: 1998 Ted "Riding High". USA-edition.
1996.11.22 in Netherlands / Amsterdam at the presentation of his Dutch edition of his book "Jupiters Travel".
1998: Tesch-Travel-Treffen. Ted Simon in Germany Monschau.
Ri: Tesch-Travel-Treffen 2004.04.22
in Belgium / Malmedy.
04.2006: Tesch-Travel-Treffen. Ted stellt sein Buch der zweiten Weltumrundung erstmalig vor: Dreaming of Jupiter.
Ri: 04.2007: Tesch-Travel-Treffen. (B.T. Dunja Brodowsky-Zimmermann. Patricia Govers-Tesch. Ted Simon.
06.10.1973 - 15.08.1977
Ted Simon (British, born 01.05.1930) http://www.jupitalia.com
+ Around-The-World. Four years through five
continents on a Triumph (2 Zylinder. Model Tiger-100-P). A marvellous reading
adventure. He rode ca. 100.800 km (60.647 road miles, 78.302 total distance),
four years and fourty-five countries around the world. He came back 30 pounds
lighter. Beim Fahren bewegen sich seine Gedanken zwischen Kontemplation, Fehler
der Vergangenheit zu finden und Spekulation über Gefahren der Zukunft.
Die Triumph steht heute im "Alfred Herbert Museum" in Coventry, Großbritannien.
Books: The most sold books of a Wold-Around-Tour by motorcycle: 300.000 copies.
Jupiter's Travels (translated in 5 other languages). German edition: Jupiter's
Reisen. Jupiters Fahrt (German edition 1983). French edition: Les Voyages de
Jupiter.
Italian edition: I Viaggi di Jupiter. Spanish edition: Los Viajes de Jupiter.
Dutch edition: Jupiters Reizen (1996). American editions: Jupiter's Travels
(1980 and 1996).
After he came home: Riding High (English edition). Die Fahrt des Lebens. Vom
Unterwegssein und Ankommen (German edition 1985). Riding Home (American edition).
Terugkeer van Jupiter (Dutch edition 1999).
28.10.1991 Bernd Teschs first contact with Ted.
1994 Bernd Tesch visited Ted in USA.
1995 Partcipant of the Tesch-Meeting for Mc-World-Travellers 3 times since 1995.
02.10.2000 Ted visits Bernd Tesch again.
01.2001: Ted is planning a new mc-tour Round-The-World jorney to compare it
with his tour in the seventies. You can read here more later.
13.07.2001 Ted is in East Africa on the way to South Africa.
10.04.2013 Ted does not answer my emails any more being 82.
24.09.2019: Patricia and Bernd visited Ted Simon in Aspiran, France.
Hans Tholstrup in ??.
??.??.1974 - ??.??.1974 ? Around-The-World
Hans Tholstrup (Australian, born 08.11.1944 in Denmark)
+ Around-The-World ?.
Purpose: Hans wanted to brake the record riding overland from ?? to ?? with a BMW ???. What he did in ?? days. -
Route: ???? Great Britain - Belgium - France - Germany - Austria - Yugloslavia - Bulgaria - Turkey - Iran - Pakistan - India. By ship to Australia (Perth - Sydney by motorcycle to the steps of the Opera.
The best: ??
The worst: ??
Publications: ??
Earlier mc-tours: ?? 1974 Around-The-World by BMW
1981: Hans bought a big fuel-tank from Bernd Tesch in Kornelimünster which BMW paid.
One such rider was Hans Tholstrup, born in Denmark but resident in Australia since 1965. Having already completed the fastest motorcycle circuit around the world in 1974 – also on a BMW – Tholstrup undertook a similar expedition with an R 80 G/S in 1981. This made him one of the first motorcycle globetrotters to place their trust in the G/S for such epic journeys.
20.12.2013 E-Mail from Hans
20.12.2013 Next request for datas and fotos to Hans
23.05.1981. https://leiden.courant.nu/issue/LLC/1981-05-23/edition/0/page/20). A Dutch Newspaper.
Charles Batham.
- The end o the RTW-tour in Sydney in Australia in 1985. Photos: ABC News. - Fairfax: Paul Matthews:
10.1975 - 1985
Charles Basta Batham (*1944. GB, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Australian as well) and Veronique Piales (*1958. In France)
+ Around-The-World.
Charles said after arriving in Australia he has broken a worldrecord: 90 countries in 10 years with a motorbike. The Guiness book does not accept this.
Route: With an early HONDA Goldwing
and a trailer behind around the world. 1975 England. 1976 North-America. 1977
Central America. 1978 South America. 1980 Africa (South-North. Since South-Africa with a trailor). 1981 Europe (31.05.1981 in NL: 170.00 km. Plan in 2,5 years in Australia). Middle East. 1982
Indian Sub Continent. 1983 S.E. Asia. 1985 Australia.
13.07.2001: I do not have his address in Australia to know more details of his mc-tour Around-The-World. Who knows him?
13.11.2002: Request to Peter Thoeming. Does not know him.
22.11.2002: "Broome Trike Flights", based in Broome, North West Australia, and (supposedly) jointly run by Stuart Howe and Charles Batham. www.westpages.com.au/topdeck/busnewent.asp. All infos above by Dorian Hanock in Saudia Arabia
10.06.2005: I still do not have his address in Australia. Who knows him ?
10.07.2005: Henrik Fuglsang met Charles in 1986 in Australia. But lost conatct with him. Met Charles in Sydney APR-Jun. He lived in subburb (NSW 2021) Paddington, as far as I remember Underwood street. Charles at that time running a "Rose-girl" business, where he organized girls to sell roses in various restaurants at evenings. The Goldwing was still parked in his backyard.
21.02.2011: After 20 years living in Australia, Broome working in trike-flight business Charles Batham flew via Malaysia to GB and then nine years unknown in Europe. He escaped because the ploice was seraching for him because of sexual attacks to young girls.
In Broome before he had bought a double bus from GB and used it as his home in Broome in Australia (Newspaper).
07.05.2018: Some News and link to the foto above by Rob van Driesum who met Charles and Veonique during his mc-tour Cairo-Capetown in 1980.
27.02.2020:
A link send by Ian Cl.. says that he is in prison in Australia:
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-26/how-paedophile-fugitive-charles-batham-was-tracked-by-police/100847290
Out of this article are many details to see. Sherrie started a facebook-site to catch the refugee Charles Batham since 9 years from Australia. From the Washington police she got an answer that Charles Batham is still alive. He has now a new passport with the new name Charles Shannon.
27:02:2022. BT: The contend of my sites are about summaries of motorcycle-world-travellers. These persons are mostly very individuals. So I mostly want(ed) information and great photos of this motorcycle tour Around-The-World. If YOU can add one/some it would be great.
What it do not want is to critize any persons life. Just neutral information.
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