Trans-Americas Guinness World Record
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"The first people to ever hold Double Guinness World Records™ of
'Around the World by Motorcycle' and the 'Trans-Americas by Motorcycle'.
On 22 September 2003, a rugged, mud caked BMW R1150GS Adventure
armed with battered metal panniers and a buckled back wheel, crawled
into the town of Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world that
can be reached by road. An exhausted couple, having just slid their
way treacherously through a snowy Paso de Garibaldi, finally reached
the very end of the road, beyond which lay Antarctica. The bike was
ridden by Kevin Sanders, with his wife Julia on the back, and the
husband and wife team had just completed what had never been done
before. Starting from Deadhorse, Alaska, they had ridden the length
of the Americas Continent, some 27,200 kms, in less than 35 days
and in doing so, rode into the Guinness World Record™ Book
for a second time. Unaided, with no back up team, no support vehicle
and only their spirit of adventure to bring them through, they smashed
the existing record by over 12 days.
Filmed by Kevin & Julia as the record unfolded, this is an
inspired account of the challenges they faced, braving the remote
wilderness of the Artic tundra, riding over 1,000 miles day in the
USA, facing border bureaucracy through Central America, kidnap risks
in Colombia, Ecuadorian civil unrest, and the icy wastelands of Patagonia,
but ultimately winning through to claim their second Guinness World
Record."
Special for Horizons Unlimited - 15% discount - Just use the Promotion
code "Horizons" when ordering. DVD, Video, and a book coming.
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