In 1973 this woman rode a motorcycle around the world solo

In 1973 a French journalist named Anne-France Dautheville became the first known woman to complete a motorcycle trip around the world all by herself. She was born in Paris in 1944 and began riding motorcycles in the late 1960s. View this post on Instagram She rode over 20,000 miles through three different continents on a 125 cc Kawasaki. — Read the rest The post In 1973 this woman rode a motorcycle around the world solo appeared first on Boing Boing.

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In 1973 this woman rode a motorcycle around the world solo












Anne-France Dautheville motorcycle — Otto Von Viani / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

In 1973 a French journalist named Anne-France Dautheville became the first known woman to complete a motorcycle trip around the world all by herself. She was born in Paris in 1944 and began riding motorcycles in the late 1960s.

She rode over 20,000 miles through three different continents on a 125 cc Kawasaki. — Read the rest

The post In 1973 this woman rode a motorcycle around the world solo appeared first on Boing Boing.

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