Staaten

1981-1990

1991-2000

2001-2004

2005-2010

2011-2015

You are on the site:
http://www.berndtesch.de/English/Continents/WorldAround/WorldAroundMotorcycle1901-1950.html
Last update by Bernd Tesch: 19.01.2012

Welcome on this site!

Aybovan (Shingalesisch). Bem Vindo ! Benvenuti ! Boyeyi Malamu (Lingala). Buenvenito (Italian) ! Bien Venido ! Bienavenue ! Bienvenue (French) ! Bom Bini ! Dobrodosli ! Huan yin (Chinese) ! Julley (Ladakh)! Namaste ! Shalom (Hebro)! Tanastalink ! Tashi Delek (Tibet)! Terv etuloa (Finnish). Välkommen (Swedish) ! Velkommen (Norwegian) ! Welcome (English)! Welkom (Dutch) ! Willkommen (German) ! !

Around-The-World by Motorcycle 1901 - 1950

Books: Around-The-World
See my website www.TukuTuku.de
= >1200 Motorcycle-TRAVEL-Books in a date-base.
Here look in the columne "continent" under Around-The-World.

Around-The-World by Motorcycle 1901 - 1950

How to see and print out (free of charge) or to buy maps for your mc-tour ?
See a good view for all continents or countries at: http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Maps

Information about > 249 Motorcycle-Tours Around-The-World: 1912 - 2010 (plans)

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)
Do you know this in other languages?

Copyright Bernd Tesch. Expert for Motorcycle-WORLD-Travels. 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.
GLOBETROTT-ZENTRALE Bernd TESCH. Grünentalstrasse 31. 52152 Simmerath-Hammer / EIFEL / Germany. Tel: 0049 (0)2402-938686. http://www.berndtesch.de

If ou 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:

01.10.2010 - 27.10.2012
Sven Müller (German, born-date??) and Susan Smith (British, born-date??) your http://www.??? if you have one
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).
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.....)...
Earlier tours by motorcycle: ...1.000 km to my Opa or girlfriend...
Important useful informations for others:...
Book or publication (about your tour):...

Around-The-World by Motorcycle
(Summarises by year of start)

1901 - 1910 (1 Weltumrunder by car)
.
1902
Dr. E. C. Lehwess (British)
- Plan Around-The-World by car. Seit 1899 beabsichtigte der Brite mit einem Koch - Auto von Peking nach London zu fahren. Nachdem daraus aber nichts wurde, startete er ohne Zeitlimit mit einem Auto Panhard - Levassor mit Spezial - Fahrgestell und einem Omnibus - Aufbau von London über Europa nach Asien Richtung Wladiwostok, um von dort nach Kalifornien überzusetzen, USA zu durchqueren und über den Atlantik nach England zurückzukehren. Der Fahrzeugname war "Passe Partout" ( = "Überall hin" oder "Alles passieren"). Nach enormer Publicity und vielen Einladungen unterwegs blieb das Fahrzeug sechs Monate später in meterhohem Schnee östlich von Nizhni - Novgorod im Osten Rußlands stecken. Die Mannschaft gab das Fahrzeug auf reiste mit der Eisenbahn nach London zurück. Da die Reise gescheitert war, wurde ein solches Projekt einer Welt - Reise mit einem Auto in der Presse als vollkommen unmöglich verurteilt.
In einem Buch von Wilfrid Bade et al.: Das Auto erobert die Welt. 1901-1905 Autoeisen. Zeitgeschichte Verlag. Wilhelm Andermann. Berlin.1938. Ab S. 163 wird von dieser Reise erzählt.
B.T.: The first known planned tour by car Around-The-World.

1903
- Around-The-World. Suggestion.
B.T.: The idea in a French Newspaper in Paris for a tour Around-The-World by car did not find a response of participants.

1906
Frank Applebee (German)
- Around-The-World ? Planned World-Around-Tour with motorcycle by NSU. He crossed North-America west-east. Not sure if he circled the whole world what he wanted to do.
22.07.2000 If you have any information about this Bernd Tesch would be grateful.
B.T.: It is NOT sure that he wanted to circle the world. It is just written that he wanted to make a "world-tour" whatever it means. This is one of the very first known plans to circle the world by motorcycle.

1907
Race Peking-Paris. Won by an Itala which is in 2010 in Museo dell´ auto in Turin.

1908
Antonio Scarfoglio (1886-1969)
- Around-The-World.
Book: Il giro del mondo in der Automobil-(Round the World in einem Motor-Car) im Jahr 1909 veröffentlicht.
Book in engl. Übersetzung: Round the World in a Motor-Car (in 1908). Ed. Grant Richards. London 1909. In English.
Route: +
The Great Race, which was the longest in the world so far.
Route: America (Start of the race 12th.02.1908 in N.Y. with six cars - San Francisco- Seattle) - by ship to Asia (Japan - Manchuria) - Russland / Wladiwostok) - an Europe (Berlin (06.09.1908) - an Paris (19.09.2008). The Züst (28/45 HP Züst. No 127) arrived after 28.730 km. Long after the winning Thomas Flyer (26.200 km) and the Protos (21.500 km. Now in Deutsches Museum in München).
The first idea was to cross the Bering Sea to Russia but the ice was not strong enough. So the idea of the route was changed several times during the race. The Züst car arrived in Paris 27.01.1908 as the third car of three which arrived in total only.

http://www.greatracezust.com/storyrevised.pdf

1999 1st info by Rudolf von Bergen.
2012 aus Wikipedia: Antonio Scarfoglio (1886-1969), neapolitanische Journalist und Autor. Antonio Scarfoglio war der Sohn von Edoardo Scarfoglio und Matilde Serao , beide bekannte neapolitanische Schriftsteller der Wende des 20. Jahrhunderts und Gründer von il Mattino , die großen neapolitanischen Tageszeitung. Im Jahr 1908 war er einer der drei-Mann-Team, das die bemannte Züst , der italienische Eintrag in der Sechs-Wagen-around-the-World Autorennen, bekannt als The Great Race . Der italienische Auto war eines der letztendlichen drei Erstplatzierten. Scarfoglio schrieb ein Buch über die Nutzung: Il giro del mondo in der Automobil-(Round the World in einem Motor-Car) im Jahr 1909 veröffentlicht.
In 1908 he was one of the three-man team that manned the Züst, the Italian entry in the six-car around-the-word automobile race, known as The Great Race. The Italian car was one of the eventual three finishers. Scarfoglio wrote a book about that exploit: Il giro del mondo in automobile (Round the World in a Motor-Car) published in 1909.
Eine faszinierende Geschichte, mit bisher unveröffentlichten Fotografien, die von einer ungewöhnlichen Reise sprechen verbessert. Mandschurei, Sibirien, Russland, Japan, Europa, Amerika, das Meer, die Wüste, die Berge, begrüßte die ganze Welt im Laufe der dieses einzigartige Auto. Genau wie die einzigartige Erfahrung der Fahrer.

1907 Züst, die den größten Automobil-Rennen auf der Erde im Jahr 1908 abgeschlossen. Ab Februar dieses Jahres, nahm das große Rennen die Autos von New York nach Paris über San Francisco, Seattle, Valdez (Alaska), Japan, Wladiwostok, Omsk, Moskau, St. Petersburg, Berlin und schließlich nach Paris. Die New York Start erfolgte vor einem viertel Million Zuschauer.
Das Great Race Züst ist der 28/45 HP-Modell mit einem Vierzylinder-Motor von 7.432 cm ³ Hubraum.

Die Geschichte der Zust Abenteuer im Rennen war voll von Antonio Scarfoglio (1886-1969) dokumentiert. E
Il giro del mondo in der Automobil-(Around the World von Automobile). Dieses Buch wurde auch in einer englischen Übersetzung veröffentlicht und sind beide Versionen erweist sich als nützliche Ressource für die Restauratoren.
Engl. Übersetzung: Antonio Scarfoglio "Round the world in a motor-car". Grand Richards. 1909. London.

1908
Floyd, Climer or Climer, Floyd ?
- Around-The-World. Book: New York to Paris 1908. The Thomas Flyer-Champion endurance car of the world. Car-tour.
Réédition 1951.
02.09.2011 First Info by Rudolf von Bergen.

1909
Joshua Streiff (American ?)
- Around-The-World ? An American who had gone on his bike "Around the world"? He rode two times "Coast zu coast" with an NSU without any trouble with the machine. San Franzisko to New York 6230 kms.
Abgebildet im Buch "NSU 1873-1984".
1st info by Ernst Leverkus. Hat ORIGINAL- Archiv- Dia.
This motorcycle shall be in Germany. The owner is Heinz Metzmaier.
B.T.: It is NOT sure that he wanted to circle the world. It is just written on the bike that he wanted to make a "world-tour" whateever it means. This is one of the first known plan to circle the world by motorcycle as well.

1911 - 1920 (4 Weltumrunder)
.
1912
Andrew Carey Lincoln
- Around-The-World vision. Book about a vision: "Motorcycle Chums around the world". Verlag: Hurst and Co. 1912. USA.
B.T. 22.07.2000 This is the first book about "Around the world" by motorcycle as a vision. Written for young boys. In those times people already started to dream about this.
1993 first information by Dal Smile.

1913
Jack Harkaways
+ Around-The-World vision (?). Jack Harkaways´ Adventures Around The World.
Publisher: M. A. Donohue & Co. USA. Chicago. Before 1913.
30.09.2001 This is possibly a hardcover book as a vision. For sure no motorcycle-travel-book. But Around The World.
30.09.01 Who owns and sells this book ? Or who can offer me a summary of this book ?

Ca. 1912 - 13
Carl Stevens Clancy (American)
+ Around-The-World. The journalist Clancy and the film-critism Walter Storey plant a World-Around-Tour to write a World-Travel-Guide. They rode with a 4-zylinder Henderson.
Route: New-York - Europe - from here Clancy rode solo - Algeria - Sahara - Egypt - Ceylon - India - Japan - USA West - East to New York. 18.000 miles. Clancy sold many Fotos to the press. History was published in 1913.
1st information by Franitza, Martins book: Die großen Motorradreisen unseres Jahrhunderts
Does anyone know the orginal article or owns a foto? Bernd Tesch would be grateful to recieve this!
22.05.2000 I do not know more details. Who knows them, their present address or publications about them??
B.T.: This is the first known World-Around-Tour by motorcycle and the first by an American as well.

1913
Mrs. Harry Humphreys (British)
- America. She planned a World-Around-Tour with 85.000 miles visiting each capital of the world in two years. First known motorcycle-tour by a woman.
At 31.08.1913 she made her first step crossing solo the cross-country distance from San Francisco to New York.
At this time this is possibly the longest ride of a woman. And the first crossing by a woman west-east of America for sure.
1994 First information by Melissa Piersson.
13.07.2000 I never could find more information than a short publication in New York times. Does anyone know more about her?? Earlier address? Publication??
B.T.: At this time this is possibly the longest ride of a woman. And the first crossing by a woman west-east of America for sure. And for sure the first published plan ro ride solo around the world by a woman.

1921 - 1930 (18 Weltumrunder)
.
13.03.1921
Douglas R. Hill
Plan Around-The-World. Doughlas startet for a RTW tour with a sidecar H.R.D. - Watsonian.
Ca. 1986 1st Info by Martin Franitza.

June 2011: Lily Goldfarb (daughter of Svend Heiberg) wrote to B.T.: Svend Heiberg is the driver and owner of the bike. Aksel Svane was the passenger. My father always drove the bike (it was called "Pretrea"). They started 02.09.1924 in Denmark (Copenhagen) with a sidecar HD - 24er Indian.
Photo taken by a press photographer from the Berlingske Tidende - a well known Copenhagen newspaper- the paper my father wrote articles to.

Out of website: http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/1qq5-1m-jpg-rc.html 1925 in USA.
Svend Heiberg is the driver and owner of the bike. Aksel Svane was the passenger. This foto is possibly taken in USA (Milwaukee) when they visited the factory of Harley Davidson. They had to leave the sidecar in Turkey (Anatolia).

Svend Oluf Heiberg: l > r: 1924. - 1950 ca. (Foto Rod Cochran, Syracuse). - 1960 ca. Oluf and his wife Aaase Gerlach Heiberg (send by Lily Heiberg).

02.09.1924 - ??.04.1925
Svend Oluf Heiberg (Danish, became later an American citizen, born 22.07.1900 - 05.02.1965) and

Aksel (Axel) Svane (Danish, born ??.??.1898 -??-??.1991)
+ Around-The-World. Svend and Aksel rode Around-The-World with a Harley-Davidson. They started with a HD - Indian: 24er H-D sidecar . In Turkey (Anatolia) they had to leave the sidecar because of terrible roads and the weight the had. So from then they travelled only with the solo-bike.
Route so far: Europe (Denmark- Germany - Czechoslovakia - Austria - Hungary - Roumania - Bulgaria) - Asia Minor (Turkey (Anatolia) - Syria (Aleppo - Angora - Caesarea - "Arabian desert") - from Aleppo to " Mesopotamia", coutry Iraq (Bahgdad - Basra) - by steamer to India (Bombay arriving 01st.12.1924) - by motorcycle to Ceylon (Colombo)- by steamer to Federated Malay States (Malaysia today, city Penang) - Hongkong - China (Peking) - Japan (Yokohama) - by boat to North America (across the USA from San Francisco (Milwaukee in april 1925 to New York) - by boat back to Europe (France ?? - Germany - Denmark).
Purpose of the tour: To study the forest reserves in other parts of the world because because Sven intended to enter the Danish Forestry Service in Denmark.
The route in Europe went well. But after Adrianople the troubles began because of terrible conditions of the road,.In Anatolia when crossing the Taurus mountains the route became so narrow that they had to leave the sidecar. Well, they had enough spareparts to build another motorcycle (Enthusiast), which maked it much difficulter to ride on terrible roads. In total they used very few spareparts on the entire trip. Though Axel became the world´s champion tandem Passenger. The average of their speed was 80 miles a day. minimum 40 miles. In the Arabian desert between Aleppo and Bagdad they lost their tent and a rifle. They thougt that they were the first who made the 900 miles desert by motorcycle.
Publication: 1925 A picture from the Swedish magazine "Med Motorcykel" from 1925 page 114 above.
Somewhere I have seen the information that the picture is from the outside of the Harley Davidson factory.
1928 From the book by Kai Thorenfeldt "Jorden runt paa cykle", page 44, line 4, printed 1928. Here you can see that he found their names (Axel Svane and Svend Heiberg in the guestbook in a hotel in Basra.
01.07.2003 First information by Evald Bengtsson. He wrote: A few days ago I was in Stockholm and spent a few hours looking for information about long distance drivers. I looked for Heiberg and Svane. They are mentioned in a Danish book on page 44 in "Jorden rundt paa cykle" by Kai Thorenfeldt. He found their names in 1928 in a registerbook in a hotel in Basra. I think they are also mentioned somewhere by Palle Huld. In a periodical from 1926 I found a photo of Svend Heiberg and Axel Svane on a MC. "Around the world" but no other text at all. If you are interested, I can send you a copy of the
photo.
16.04.2003 Asked Evald for more information
28.03.2008 Could you please send / scan me the picture Ewald?
20.12.2010 Asked Ewald again for the foto.
24.12.2010 Got the foto and more text from Evald.
Interesting site:
http://www.guzzidoug.net/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=17
http://www.guzzidoug.net/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=000015
Beim Fritz hat er auch vorbeigeschaut. 17.06.2011. This websites do not work anymore.

------------------------------
Geschrieben am 29.01.2007 um 11:18:24 von Harleysons (HD & B Senior Member in Frankenhofen) auf website:
http://www.becks24.de/cgi-bin/hdub/YaBB.pl?num=1167565383/7
Unter
Around the World 1924-1925:

Im April 1925 trafen die beiden Dänen Sven Heiberg und Axel Svane auf Ihrem Trip around the World bei Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee ein.

Photo: http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/1qq5-1m-jpg.html
Auf dem Foto tragen sie Ihre khakifarbene Ausgeh-Uniform, einen Sam Brown Gürtel und Offiziersstiefel. Die Mützen sind nach dem Muster des Königlich-dänischen Automobilclubs gefertigt.
Auf Ihrem kompletten Trip benötigten sie nur 2 Einlassventile, eine Reparatur an der Gabel, Kupplungsbeläge, Reifen, Schläuche und Speichen.
Der Benzinpreis war zu dieser Zeit in Deutschland am höchsten und in Kalifornien am günstigsten. (Verbrauch 45 Miles per Gallon).
Gruesse Fritz
------------------------------------------
30th.05.2011 Lily Goldfarb (daughter of Sven Oluf Heiberg, 70) wrote:
....I came across your website as I was just curious to see if there was any mention of the motorcycle trip of my father -Svend Oluf Heiberg & his good friend Aksel Svane took in 1924 from Copenhagen, Denmark. You wrote that you were not too sure if they traveled through India etc. Yes, they did.
After the trip my father married my mother and came to the US to study at Yale - remained to become a forestry professor. Aksel stayed in Denmark to become a governor of Greenland & later a lawyer.
They visited the Harley-Davidson factory & were written up in their magazine "Harley-Davidson Enthusiast" issue 84. My brother has the log of the trip and I am sure if you are interested would fill you in on any questions you may have.
I also have some photos of the two men on the motorcycle with the sidecar still on.
Thanks for mentioning their trip. I don't think they took the trip to be the "first" but for the sense of adventure & seeing the world.
Lily Goldfrab, born Heiberg
31.05.2011 1st request for update to Lily and her brother Eric Heiberg.
01.06.2011 Lily Goldfarb (born Heiberg) wrote about her father:
Svend Oluf Heiberg became a well known forestry professor - his specialty was silviculture (general forestry) & international forestry. He received many awards for his work in forestry including a knighthood from the King of Denmark, honorary doctor's degree & a forest named after him in Central New York State. He traveled & taught all round the world including Germany. He taught & became a Dean at New York State University College of Forestry from 1927 to 1964 - the year he died. The college is now call College of Environmental Sciences & Forestry located in Syracuse, New York.
I believe through out the trip my father wrote articles to a newspaper in Copenhagen & gave talks about the trip when they returned. That's when he met my mother. The following September they took the SS "President Harding" to the US to study at Yale University.
Unfortunately he did not write a book.

1925 Article of the tour in "Harley-Davidson Enthusiast" No. 82 and No. 84: World Tourists Visit Factory by "Hap" Hayes. This article includes the foto above with their uniform.
1965 Article of most of the professional life of Seven Oluf Heiberg, Forester by Rod Cochran. Sunny College of Enviromental Sciene and Forestry, Syracuses. Send by Lily Goldfarb.

Le: Sven Oluf Heiberg given a doctorade by Danish king Frederick in 1963. Re: The three children of Sven Oluf Heiberg and and Aaase Gerlach Heiberg in 1980: Left standing Lily Goldfarb (born Heiberg). Right standing Karin Heiberg, sitting Eric Heiberg. Foto send by Lily Goldfarb.

-----------------
Aksel Svane, 1898-1991, dansk jurist. Svane var landsfoged for Sydgrønland 1932-45. Under 2. Verdenskrig boede han i USA, hvor han varetog Grønlands interesser i USA og Canada. Efter krigen var Svane kontorchef i Grønlands Styrelse; 1955-68 var han kommitteret i Ministeriet for Grønland. (http://www.denstoredanske.dk).

Gouverneure in Südgrönland
1932 - 1941 Aksel Svane (b. 1898 - d. 1991)
1941 - 1945 Aksel Svane was situated in US to organize the supplies.

07.07.2011 Lily Goldfarb, born Heiberg: I tried to contact Aksel Svane's grandson. I believe his name is Mikkel Svane & is developer of software named Zendesk. I have sent him an email asking if his grandfather was Aksel but no reply as of yet. He is living in San Francisco. One can find him on Facebook.
08.07.2011 Bernd Tesch saw a video-interview in youtube with Mikkel Asker Svane.
09.07.2011 Mikkel answered me that he is the gandson of Aksel Svane.
09.07.2011 B.T. asked Mikkel Svane to answer several questions concerning infos and fotos about his grandfather´s tour RTW and his family.
19.07.2011 B.T. asked Mikkel Svane again again
23.08.2011 B.T. asked Mikkel Svane again again again
22.09.2011 B.T. asked Mikkel Svane again again again

Robert Sexé auf einer Veteranen-Rallye 1957. Foto Karl Reese (C).

13.06.1926 - 05.12.1926
Robert Sexé (French, Born 17.11.1890 in La Roche-sur-Yon in the Vendée - ??.??.1986) und Henry Andrieux (French)
+ Around-The-World. Fuhren um die Welt in 5 Monaten und 17 (?) Tagen. Laut Robert Sexe's Handschrift in seinem Tagebuch, selber gesehen am 03.08.1996 von Bernd Tesch in Airvault / Frankreich, war die Reise: Start: 13.06.1926 (Paris) - 05.12.1926 (Paris).
Route: Frankreich - UdSSR (via Sibirien bis Wladiwostok. Erster Motorrad-Traveller in dort) - Japan - Amerika - Frankreich. Sie fuhren mit 2 Gillet, 350 ccm, 6,5 PS. Sie waren die ersten bekannten Franzosen, die um die Welt fuhren und dabei die Strecke durch Sibirien mit dem Motorrad meisterten. Sie sind nicht, wie vielfach behauptet wird, die ersten Welt-Umrunder. Es ist die "1. Welt-Umrundung 1926 auf dem Landweg durch die UdSSR per Motorrad" mit 2 Gillet (350 ccm, 6,5 PS).
Book: Crius (Christian Christophe). Mit dem Motorrad um die Welt. 1973. Reprint 1996 available.
15.07.1991 Since then Bernd Tesch owns the original photo from Robert Sexé von 1926 in front of the Kreml in Moscow.
22.07.2000 I am still missing the original publication which was published by an Austrian Mc-shop. I have never heard that
somebody ones this. Do you know anybody?
04.08.1996 Visit of Jean-Paul Schulz in chateau Airvault in Airvault, who owns all what Robert Sexé left. I saw the motorcycles of Robert Sexé and the original diary. From this I could find out the exact dates above of the tour.
19.12.2010 I know a lot more about Robet Sexe and own several originals of his publications. I never found the original publication in french or German of the Around-The-World tour as a book.
1992 A lot of years ago my daughter Malaika Tesch told me that a teacher of her in Aachen owns some parts of Robert Sexe. So finally I visited this teacher and he showed me a lot of originals: A motorcycle by Robert Sexe called "Peugeot P 110". Handwritten letters and parts of Robert in his garage. He was a friend of Robert Sexe somehow when he already was very old. I took fotos of all and wanted to publish this. But mc-magazine TOURENFAHRER was not interested in it. So I left my activities to publish this. All I wrote down must be somewhere between all my mc-travel-collections !

----------------------------------------------------------------------
19.12.2010 Christophe Fauret informed me kindly about a new website about Robert Sexé. French artist Christophe Fauret made all the wonderful drawings http://christophefauret.blogspot.com

Robert Sexé.Website since may 2010
http://robertsexe.planethoster.org/en/parcours_robert_en.html

In this website above you find bibliography of Janpol Schulz:
Janpol Schulz, Histoire de la moto militaire, éditions SAGATO Bruxelles.
Janpol Schulz, Les motos de compétiton « racing motorcycle » E. JADAULT, 1980
Janpol Schulz, Robert Sexé 1890-1986, Privee Musée de l'Aventure et du Souvenir Vieux-Château d'Airvault, 1991
Janpol Schulz, Sexé au pays des Soviets, édition du Chapeau rouge, 1996
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Robert Sexé. His travels: Overview from the website above
1924 - Paris-Constantinople-Paris
1925 - Paris-Moscou
1926 - World tour
1926 - World tour - URSS
1926 - World tour - Japon
1926 - World tour - USA
1929 - Europe Tour
1932 - Europe Tour
1934 - Solo Trip
1937 - Europe Tour
1938 - From the Seine to the Euphrates
1939 - Europe Tour
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Robert Sexé. His books and brochures:
In the website www.tukutuku.de by Bernd Tesch you find bibliography about Robert Sexé´s books !
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Robert Sexé. His motorcycle Peugeot P 110 :

One of Robert Sexés motorcycles. Peugeot P 110. Owners: Robert Sexé. Heinz R. until 03.2011. - Gerd Haberland since 03.2011. Gerd Haberland sold it to a Belgium man who wants to open a museum.

One of Robert Sexés motorcycles. Peugeot P 110. Left: KFZ-Schein. Rechts: Fahrgestell-Nr. Alle Fotos vom Peugeot: (C) Gerd Haberland.

03.2011 Robert Sexé s Motorrad Peugeot P 110 in neuem Besitz von Gerd Haberland.
06.05.2011 Gerd Haberland ruft mich an aufgrund meiner Präsens bei google bei der Suche mit Stichwort Robert Sexé. Gerd sammelt Motorräder und besitzt privat 158 Motorräder.
Er besitzt seit ca. 03.2011 ein Original-Motorrad Peugeot P 110 (Bj. 1932, die Papiere aber sind von 1945. Die Fahrgestellnummer 92602 steht sowohl auf dem Rahmen als auch in den Fahrzeugpapieren. Auch das Nummerschild stimmt mit der zugeteilten Nummer überein : 668 BP 86. Als Besitzer ist Robert Sexé eingetragen. Er hat dieses Motorrad im Tausch gegen eine BMW von Heinz R. bekommen. Dieser hat das Motorrad von Robert Sexé geschenkt bekommen. Als Nachweis hat mir Gerd Haberland freundlicherweise neben den Motorrad-Bildern den Kfz-Schein mit Namen Robert Sexe mitgeschickt.

B.T. in 1996: This is the first known tour by motorcycle "Around-The-World" from a French via Vladiwostok.
Under experts this is not the very first tour Arund-The-World by motorcycle at all. This was ca. 1912 - 13 done by Carl Stevens Clancy (American). See above on this site in www.berndtesch.de

30.08.1926 - 03.1928
B.H. Cathrick and J.P. Castley (Cathrick, British)
+ Around-The-World. The journalist of "The Motor Cycle and Motor Cycling" rode 33.000 kms Around-The-World with two sidecars BSA, V 2 zylinder. Modell Colonial.
Route: England - France - Spain - Portugal - France Italy - Austria - Tschechoslowakei - Bulgaria - Jugoslavia - Turkey - Syria - Palästina - Egypt (This ist the first time vehicles made the distance London - Cairo) - Egypt - India by boat - India - Burma - Java - Australia (Perth- Nullabor - Melbourne - Sydney) - Tasmania - New Zealand - South - America (Valparasio) - Südafrika - England.
B.T.: This is the first known World-Around-Tour by motorcycle from Great Britain.

02.07.1927 - 1928
Stan Glanfield (British)
+ Around-The-World. Rudge-Whitworth world tour with a sidecar. 8 months. 18.000 miles.
Reproduced from Motorcycle Sport, August 1972, p 296.
ROUND THE WORLD ON A RUDGE
An epic journey of 1928
Route: Europe - Asia - Australia - North America
MOTORCYCLING is again coming back into favour and it does not seem right that all the credit for the long-distance pioneering runs of long ago should remain with the four-wheeler fraternity, does it? We may regard with a mixture of awe and reverence the exploits of people like Birtles who drove a Bean from London to Australia in 1927, those who raced from Paris to Peking as long ago as 1907 (1908 !) when the big Thomas car proved the winner, the Court-Treatts who coaxed a couple of Crossleys from the Cape to Cairo, taking from 1924 until 1926 to do so, and Fred Grey who undertook trans-African journeys in a pair of twin-cylinder Jowetts, of only 7 h.p., named "Wait" and "See". But the motorcycle could do it too, as I now propose to remind you.
The outfit concerned was a 3½ h.p. Rudge-Whitworth with a box-bodied sidecar, which Stanley Glanfield, of the well-known motorcycle factors, Glanfield Lawrence Ltd., rode to some purpose away back in 1927/8. What Glanfield set out to do was to ride his moderately-powered, single-cylinder Rudge for a distance of 18,000 miles across four continents at a time in motoring history when roads, maps, service facilities and conditions generally did not encourage a world onslaught of this kind, even in a car and with company to share the adventures.
Pay tribute, then, to this lone rider, who on 2 July 1927, having worked at his preparations all night, kick-started his Rudge and set off towards Folkstone on a journey which was to occupy all his skill, stamina and resourcefulness for the next eight months. The sidecar was useful as a repository for tins of petrol and oil, food, blankets, and some spare parts. On the pillion Glanfield had fitted a small vice, anticipating the need to make roadside repairs....
Even to cross Europe alone on a motor-cycle was tough going 44 years ago, but the Rudge was at Amiens by the first nightfall and the only alarms seem to have been a narrow escape from colliding with a train at a level-crossing near Compeigne and a fire, quickly put out with the rider's extinguisher, near the German border. Slightly singed, Glanfield pressed on, crossing Germany without the advantage of speaking the language, but losing 10 days at Vienna because the frame broke and had to be repaired there and then beside the road.
To prevent this happening again a lightweight sidecar was made specially for the machine in Vienna. This was an improvement but the very bad roads in Hungary and the Balkans continually threw Glanfield out of the saddle, and in Serbia he found that if he had put 65 miles behind in a day it was good going. By August 15 our hero had reached Constantinople but the feared red-tape of Turkish officialdom delayed him for nine days. Then it was across the Bosphorous to Haida Pasha, where the rider was compelled to give up riding the Rudge for a time, it being part of the official ruling that he must travel by train in order that he might not get a sight of the Dardanelles fortifications. Indeed, at this period of his travels officialdom did its best to bring the venture to a halt. For instance, the Police sent him to Payas over narrow mountain tracks strewn with boulders and crossed by dried-up river beds and gullies. Arriving there thoroughly exhausted, Glanfield was told he must go back as far as the insignificant village of Deurtyol to obtain permission to leave the country, and all his protests fell on unsympathetic, deaf ears. So he turned back and faced the route in darkness, risking malaria, an armed guard on the pillion.
Thrown into goal, then under open arrest, the motorcyclist from England eventually got away and was soon glad to be speeding along a fine highway towards Aleppo, with the old roman road from Alexandretta still discernible alongside. But these easy conditions were not destined to last long. The Syrian desert had to be crossed, which was quite a feat in itself, and at Tel-e-Far, where he asked for water, the Arabs proved to be hostile and only a tin of cigarettes and the Rudge's acceleration after these were handed around saved Glanfield from very likely suffering the fate which had befallen the last white people to stop there - the crew of an armoured car, they were all murdered....
Perhaps not surprisingly, Glanfield now fell ill with fever but after a short spell in hospital he insisted on riding on, with a temperature of 104 deg. He was worried about his self-imposed time schedule and knew that there would be the welcome respite of the sea journey from Basra to Bombay. This was a much-needed break, because the run from Bombay, across India to Calcutta was almost beyond belief. The rivers were flooded by the monsoon and the Rudge had to be dismantled to get it across many of them, while the combination of endless mud and rain caused an equally endless series of small mechanical troubles. Against such adversities Glanfield averaged 300 miles a day and his fame had preceded him as he rode his disreputable motorcycle and sidecar into fashionable Calcutta.
Next it was by sea to Penang and then more interminable riding, through dense jungle, and torrential Malayan rain. The under-wheel hazards were less from Malacca to Singapore but the rain, if possible, even heavier. The rider was frozen, which is probably why he elected to cover the last 17 moles into Singapore at 60 m.p.h., the Rudge as game as when it began.
The plot was now to ride to Java and embark for Port Darwin, hoping to get there before the rains came. Alas, the Australian monsoon was not beaten and the Rudge had to do the best it could, over almost trackless going composed of bog, sand and rock, the conditions ever deteriorating.
Improvising bridges from purloined railway sleepers, heaving and pushing, Glanfield forced the luckless Rudge along. He had company for a time, while a young stockman accompanied him on the pillion, but this passenger had had enough when a particularly bad pot-hole threw him off and at the same time crushed one of Glanfield's feet under the machine. The nearest hospital was at Boulia, 200 miles away, so there was nothing for it but to ride, in fearful pain, solo, to salvation. To do this although every jolt made him sick with pain, Glanfield had somehow to get the Rudge across numerous creeks and river beds. He also had to rebuild the gearbox, damaged by boulders after he had been crawling for miles over ridged sand in low gear.
A week after his release from another hospital, Glanfield hit a hidden tree stump, which tore off the sidecar wheel and caused the machine to somersault three times. A control pierced his leg but although bleeding profusely Glanfield had to go a quarter of a mile on foot before he found the sidecar wheel. He carried a spare spindle and at Tambo the damage was repaired and once again he pressed on - again against doctor's orders.
There were further troubles but just before Christmas he had almost completed the 800-mile run to Sydney when, three miles from his destination, the engine gave up. A big combination was sent out to tow him in but it broke down and the Rudge was eventually persuaded to motor in on its own.
After Glanfield had attended to business in Sydney, rider and Rudge crossed the Pacific and the final part of this endurance marathon was from Los Angeles to New York in temperatures below zero, sleet, rain and a biting head-wind. At a level crossing the Rudge nearly ended up as it had almost done in France but a burst of acceleration saved the day.
That was it! The Rudge had covered 18,000 miles of the worst going imaginable. It came home triumphantly on the Olympic and rests today in the Coventry museum. Let no-one say that motorcycles were not every bit as good as cars at these pioneering trans-Continental runs!
W.BODDY
15. November 2003 this article was kindly send by email for Stanley Reters in Canada.

1928 - ca. 1936
Zoltan Sulkowski and Gyula Bartha (Hungarians)
+ Around-The-World with a Harley-Davidson sidecar by Zoltán Sulkowsky und Gyula Bartha. 7 years. 68 countries. 170.000 kms. 5 continents.
Mit dem Motorrad um die Erde. 170.000 km durch 68 Länder in fünf Kontinenten. Zur Zeit der großen „Weltwirtschaftskrise“ reisten zwei junge Ungarn, Zoltán Sulkowsky und Gyula Bartha, von 1926-1936 mit einem -Gespann von Harley Davidson um die Welt. Sie haben 68 Länder auf 5 Kontinenten durchquert und 170.000 km zurückgelegt.
Route: Italien, Frankreich, Spanien und Portugal. Über Nord-Afrikas Marokko, Algerien, Tunesien, Libyen und Ägypten gelangten sie in den Nahen Osten : Palästina, Syrien, Türkei. Danach bereisten sie die Balkan-Halbinsel mit Griechenland, Bulgarien, Rumänien und Jugoslawien. Per Schiff reisten sie zurück nach Ägypten und fuhren in den Sudan. Von der arabischen Halbinsel gelangten sie per Schiff von Aden nach Indien. Nachdem sie Nord- und Südindien und Ceylon durchstreift hatten, landeten sie nach einer Schiffsreise in Perth. Hier in Australien brachten sie es auf 11.000 km.
     Der schwierigste, anstrengendste, aber auch abenteuerlichste Teil ihrer Reise war in Süd-Ost-Asien durch Java, Sumatra, Malaysia, Siam, Indochina mit Kambodscha, Süd-Vietnam, Annam und Tonkin. Die fremden Schriftzeichen in China und Japan machten ihnen bei der Orientierung oftmals große Schwierigkeiten.
     Über Hawaii gelangten sie nach San Franzisko (USA). Nach 2 Jahren ausführlicher Reisen in Nord-Amerika fuhren sie weiter über Mexiko und Cuba, um zwei weitere Jahre in Süd-Amerika durch Panama, Equador, Peru, Chile, Argentinien, Uruguay und Brasilien zu reisen.
     Von Rio de Janeiro kehrten sie nach einer 8-jährigen Welt-Reise nach England zurück. 1936 wurden die beiden Welt-Reisenden mit einer größeren Feier in Budapest empfangen.
1. Quelle: Franitza. Die großen Motorrad-Reisen unseres Jahrhunderts. .
Book in Hungarian: "Motorral a föld körül. 170.000 km".
02.2008 An American translation of the book appeared which you can buy online: www.subariders.com Edited in English language by Karoly Kanyo in USA as an ebook of 10 MB.
03.2009 The original book came out in paper in Emnglish from the WhitehorsePress.com in USA. Bernd Tesch sells this as well.
B.T.: This is the first longest mc-ride Around-The-World in those times. First World-Around-Tour by Hungarians. Second World-Tour with a Harley-Davidson sidecar.

1928 - 30
Gabriel Dufner (Düfner ?) (American)
+ Around-The-World. Gabriel circeld the world on an Indian Scout-Sidecar from Detroit / USA: 60.000 km. He had a dog called "Polly" with him. He had a propeller on his sidecar which motored a generator to refresh the mc-battery.
Route: Deutschland - Balkan - Asien - Australien - Neuseeland - China- Japan - Indien - Europa - Deutschland.
First information by Info Ernst Leverkus.
22.05.2000 I do not know more details. Who knows them, their present address or publicatinos about them??

1928 - 1930
John Gill with Walter Stephens (British) and Phil Irving (Australian)
Around-The-World.
Route: England - 02.1930 they reached Australia after 19.000 kms - with Phil Irving then Canada - England (London). Finally 37.000 kms with HRD-Noxal- sidecar.
Quelle Martin Franitza. Die großen Motorradreisen unseres Jahrhunderts. ISBN 3-9801491-3-7.
22.08.93 1st information by Martin Franitza
22.05.2000 I do not know more details. Who knows them, their earlier or present address of realtions or publications about them??

07.11.1928 - 07.11.1930
Ivan Sergevich Kralichek Soboleff (Russian)
+ Around-The-World. Geplant war eine Welt-Reise per Fahrrad. Er startet mit einem gebrauchten Fahrrad in China (Shanghai), fährt per Schiff nach Hongkong und später mit Visa nach Bangkok. Er durchquert als erster Fahrrad-Fahrer den Dschungel von Burma bis Singapur. Hier kauft er sich ein gebrauchtes Motorrad. In Indien bekommt er ein britisches Ariel-Gespann geschenkt. Nach exakt 2 Jahren ist er zurück in Shanghai. Er hat 22 Länder durchquert und ist 68.800 km (43.000 miles). Dieses dürfte die bis dahin in km längste km-Strecke sein, die ein Motorrad-Weltreisender gefahren ist.
Books: Nansen Passport. Buch von I.S.K. Soboleff. 1935. Cossack at large (1960).
1993: Bernd Tesch visited the second wife of Ivan Soboleff in GB.

Emeric Von Semendy. The foto on top is originally from the visit of the office of "Motorcycling of 10 August 1932 in GB"
The foto below is the rider seen on a postcard which he sold for living.
Both send are kindly send by woman Annice of Vintage Motorcycle Club of GB in may 2009 to Bernd Tesch.

1929 - 1935
Emeric Von Semendy
- Around The World ? Emeric Von Semendy sold postcards to finance his world tour by motorcycle. On the back of the postcard is standing:
THE TOUR OF THE WORLD ON MOTOR CYCLE
EMERIC VON SEMENDY, Hungary , Budapest, Left Budapest in 1929 with the intention to travel the world around in six years by Motor Cycle DKW. I have travelled already through – Austria , Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo Slavia, Roumania, Germany , Switzerland , Italy , Sicily , Africa, France , Belguim. Having accomplished the distance of 70,000 kilometres. The intention of my travelling around the world is, solely for educational purposes. I am maintaining myself by selling postcards ONE PENNY.
This is standing in "The Motorcycle".
There is a picture of him on the motorcycle on the card but it is not clear enough to be sure what make it is. We are working on that part of it.
Who knows more ??
22.04.2009 1st summary and request by Annice from the librarian of the Vintage Motorcycle club in England : www.vmcc.net You (and/or any other motorcyclists) would be very welcome to visit the library if you have time next time you are in England . We are in Wetmore Road, Burton on Trent which is about 30 miles North of Birmingham. There is a map on our website.
22.04.2009 1st answer and request for update with picture.

1929 - 1930
J. Grill (vermutlich falsch geschrieben. Siehe oben 1928-30 Gill !)
+ Around-The-World. J. Gril rode around-the-world with a sidecar Vincent - Noxal.
Ca. 1986 1st Info by Martin Franitza.

12.1929 - 12.1930
Geoffrey H. Malins (British)
+ Around-The-World. "The complete circling of the world by motorcycle and sidecar. This is the record of Mr. Charles Oliver and myself, who succesfully accomplished what we set out to do". Auf zwei Gespannen (1000 ccm, V 2-Motor) in OEC Dublex Rahmen, genannt "Pip" und "Squeak" oder "The Heavenly Twins", fuhren sie 36.480 km (22.800 miles) um den Globus.
Route: Großbritannien (London) - Holland - Belgien - Deutschland - Frankreich - Spanien (Gibraltar) - Malta - Palästina - Irak - per Schiff nach Pakistan (Karachi) - Indien (Bombay - Dehli) - Birma (Rangoon) - Singapure - Indonesien (Java) - Australien - (Brisbaine - Sydney - Melbourne) Neuseeland (Auckland) - Fiji - Hawaii - USA (Los Angeles - New York) - Großbritannien (London). Sie fuhren lange und viele Strecken per Schiff.
Book: Going Further
Ca. 1992 Info by Bent Ellingsen.

1931 - 1940
193?
Peter Lee Warren (British) (Warner, Lee ?)
Around-The-World ? 193? um die Welt.
22.05.2000 I could not get more information of this. Who knows more or publications? Any details ?

1931
Heinz Block und Sorofka (German)
Around-The-World ? Sie brachen 1931 mit einem Victoria-Motorrad zu einer Welt-Reise auf.
Quelle Martin Franitza. Die großen Motorradreisen unseres Jahrhunderts. ISBN 3-9801491-3-7.
22.08.93 1st information by Martin Franitza.
22.05.2000 I do not know more details. Who knows them, their present address or publications about them??

1931
Miss Rene Lees (British) and an American girl
Around-The-Word ? Miss Rene planned with an American girl (who already rode Califonia to New York) togehter to circle the world on a American big-twin which she purchased in Japan.
26.02.1931 Short publication with picture as an announcement in THE MOTORCYLE 1931, page 318.

06.07.1932 - 24.12.1933
Robert Edison Jun. Fulton (American)
+ Around-The-World. The record of a journey round the world by a Doughlas through 22 countries in 18 months on three continents with most of the time spent in Asia. The architekt "Bob (23)" started solo with a sidecar but took off the side waggon in South of Europe and continued with his solo bike.
Route: 40.000 miles (64.000 km). England (Bristol) - France - Germany - Austria - Hungary - Jugoslawia - Bulgaria - Greece - Turkey - Syria - "Djebel - Druze" - Iraq - by ship to India - Waziristan - Afghanistan - D.E.I. - Malaysia - Sumatra - Java - Siam - Cambodia (= French - Indo-China) - China - Japan - USA (New York).
In 1993: Robert (84) visited Bernd Tesch in Aachen / Germany.
In 1994 B.T. visited Robert in USA.
1994: Book: "One Man Caravan (Original in 1936)". Bernd Tesch had the idea and organised a reprint by WHITEHORSE PRESS / USA in 1998. Available there and in Germany only from Bernd Tesch.
1998: Bernd Tesch published an 8 pages report about his travel in German motorcycle-magazine MOTORRAD.
04.2000 Robert had an exhibition of his total life as an artist, architect, pilot, inventor and motorcycle world-around-traveller being 90 years old.
2000: A book in artistic style in a limited small edition about his World-Around-Tour was published. "The long journey home" (Hardcover). Available only from Bernd Tesch in Germany.
B.T.: 1992 I found the architect Robert and pilot (called Bob) in USA. We had an intensively exchange of letters. When Robert found out that I know the largest amount of Motorcycle-WORLD-A-Round Travellers he wanted to meet me. When he circled solo the world in 1932 he thought that he probably is the first one. Still being interested in Motorcycle-World-Travelling Bob visited me in 1993 in Aachen/Germany in my shop. He wanted to stay with his son and grandson for three hours. Because I organised a one page publication in the German Newspaper here about his worldtour and a reception with 40 Motorcycle-Traveller for him Bob stayed for three days. In 1994 I was his personal guest in USA. Although already 84 year Bob collected me by himself 300 kms from his home in Connecticut. Bob is still a very wonderful and modest person although he and his family are very famous. His earlier fahthers invented the steamship, the bulb, Mac Lorry Company for Transport and greyhound busses. Bob invented many things. One of the famous items are that he builds (simple explain) a gas-bottle with which you fill up a baloon which is going in the air with a robe. Then a big plain is coming with a fork in the front and flying under the baloon and rolling up the rope. So the lost person will be lifted up by this rope in the plane and brought home safely 5000 kms. This equipment had been used for years in the USA-military to pick up pilots or ship people who were in case of emercency. Even the agent 007 was one time safed by this in a film.
07.03.98: in Motorcycle-magazine MOTORRAD (190.000 prints), part UNTERWEGS (= on the road) was published: 8 pages report by Bernd Tesch about Robert FULTONs Motorcycle World-Around-Tour 1932 with a Doughlas and his new reprint-book "One man Caravan" (DM 44,90, in English). I had the idea of this reprint and Dan Kennedy from WHITE HORSE PRESS in USA did the job of publishing.
11.08.2000 B. T.: Robert (calls himself Bob) is the oldest living Motorcycle-Traveller "Around-The-World". He has been in some places nobody has been until today. He is the only one "Around-The-World" by motorcycle, who had a reprint of his book so many years later still being alive. Bob is the first one who made 40.000 feet of film with a 35 mm movie camera riding a motorcycle Around-The-World. B.T. tries since 1994 to motivate Bob that he makes a video out of it.

1933
Nariman P. Mistry (India)
Around-The-World ? Weil ich eine Wette gewinnen wollte, startete ich zu einer Welt-Reise.
Route: Von Dar es Salaam startet der Inder Nariman P. Mistry 1933 seine geplante Welt-Umrundung, allerdings ohne Motorrad. Später reist er mit einem Harley-Davidson-Gespann (Baujahr 1929) mit linksseitigem Seitenwagen. 1936 ist er nach 44.000 km (???) bereits in Harlem.
First info by Martin Franitza.
22.05.2000 I do not know more details. Who knows them, their present address or publicatinos about them??

1941 - 1950
02.03.1949
Lucky Lady (American plane with American pilots)
+ Around-The-World. The first aeroplane circled the world. It got several times fuel in the air. The US-Bomber B 50.

Ca. 1950
Wim Dussel (Dutch)
+ Around-The-World. The Dutch journalist Wim rode for Maico with a Maico-Scooter (150 ccm-MAICO-Zweitaktmotor. 6.5 PS. 8,5 liter fuel-tank). Wim drove another time Around-The-World with a DAF-car.
Book: De wereld is nog altijd rond. Win wrote 18 books.
08.1997 First info von Martin Schaal.
2000: Wim is 81 years.

22.04.1950 ?
Mary Morris and Beri (American)
Around-The-World. ?
22.05.2000 I do not know more details. Who knows them, their present address or publications about them??

contact: