Carol and Ken Duval are Australian long-distance motorcyclists. They started long-distance riding outside of Oceania in March 1997, completing a circumnavigation of the Earth in June 2001, having touched 57 countries and covered 200,000 kilometers. In 2007 Ken Duval retired, the couple sold their belongings in Brisbane, Australia to raise $500,000 for traveling, and they started on a new journey. By 2017, after eight years on the road, they had finished a second circumnavigation and had racked up nearly one million kilometers; both trips were on the same motorcycle, a 1981 BMW R80G/S.
References
- Shirley Hardy-Rix; Brian Rix (2013). Circle to Circle – A Journey Through the Americas and Beyond. ISBN 9781742983707. OCLC 1084340672.
- ^ Hinchliffe, M. (22 September 2007). "Wandering the world – intrepid grey nomads set off for second motorcycle circumnavigation". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane, Australia – via ProQuest.
- Carol Duval; Ken Duval (2 October 2007). "Life On A Bike....RTW 2". Horizons Unlimited.
- Egle GERULAITYTE (1 April 2017), "Ken and Carol: Twenty Years On the Road", Women ADV Riders
- Brian Rix (24 May 2017), "What's in your bag?", Australian Road Rider, no. 136, pp. 82–92
Further reading
- Frazier, Gregory (2014). Down and Out in Patagonia, Kamchatka, and Timbuktu: Greg Frazier's Round and Round and Round the World Motorcycle Journey. Motorbooks. p. 187. ISBN 978-0760345832.
- Wrucha, Edyta (4 April 2017), "Ken i Carol Duval – 20 lat w motocyklowej podróży" [Ken and Carol Duval – 20 years on a motorcycle trip], Motocaina (in Polish)
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| Methodology: Rides of >30,000 km (>3,000 km before 1930) or record-setting transcontinental or intercontinental ride | |