Around the world by motorbike in 1932

Motorcycling
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Around the world by motorbike in 1932 – videoIn 1932, 23-year-old Robert Fulton Jnr set off on a 40,000-mile solo motorcyle trek from London to Japan. His incredible footage of the journey is one of a selection of films being show at The Adventure Travel Film Festival (17-20 Aug). It captures a Middle East still under British rule, India under the Raj and pre-communist China, all before the days of telephones, proper infrastructure or mass tourism – and when some parts of his map were still marked ‘unsurveyed, unknown’

• This is an edited extract from the film. The full length film will be showing at The Adventure Travel Film Festival, Sherborne Dorset, 17-20 August

http://gu.com/p/39j7j

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Great images in that trailer…with a bit of wisdom thrown in. Not sure I could sit through a feature length version though.:slight_smile:

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Tribute to those old bikes build quality and reliability that he was able to do the trip on it.

I expect he had to repair, fix and fettle on the way - but the bikes relative simplicity was probably an advantage.

Imagine trying to fix a modern multi cylinder, fuel injected bike packed with electronics in some hill village in the middle of nowhere . . .