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Elspeth Beard: Riding Into History (2018)
Run Time: 3:41
Producer: A film by Culture Trip
Director: Souleyman Messalti & Joe Brooks
Camera: Souleyman Messalti & Adu Lalouschek
Animation: Joe Brooks & Alex Mellon
Editor: Thomas Canton
Sound Design: Ross Henbest & Thomas Canton
Cast: Elspeth Beard
FILM MAKERS
Culture Trip filmmaker Souleyman Messalti and animator Joe Brooks caught up with Beard at her home in Godalming, Surrey: an award-winning, 130-foot, brick-built water tower that she painstakingly converted over a seven-year period after she returned from her travels and completed her architectural studies. (Just in case you hadn’t gathered by now, this is a woman who likes a challenge.)
She discusses the liberating power of anonymity, the painful trade-off between independence and isolation, the possibility of finding love in the mountains of Kashmir and the opportunity, fast disappearing from the world, of getting lost.
SUMMARY
You’re 23, your heart’s been broken and there’s a long, hard slog of study stretching out in front of you. What do you do? For Elspeth Beard, a round-the-world trip on the back of her 1974 BMW R60/6 flat-twin motorbike proved the ultimate remedy for a wounded heart and weary head.
Thirty-two years after making history as the first British woman to ride solo around the globe, clocking 35,000 miles and crossing 20 countries along the way, she sat down to complete the equally epic task of penning a biking memoir to match the adventure. Lone Rider, published by Michael O’Mara in July 2017, retraces her two-year journey from a dockland warehouse in Brooklyn to her parents’ garage in central London, via outhouses in the Outback and hostile hotels in Middle Eastern war zones.
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Buy the book ; ” Lone Rider ; by Elspeth Beard ” [ finally available in the US though we only get the pb version ] and get the full story . Suffice it to say from architect – to M/C rider – to world adventurer Elspeth is one hell of a lady
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Hmmm … ! Its kind of creepy to have an old post sneak up on you …. eech ..
But I’ll say it again … buy the book … and if you can get yer head around TWD thing and more than a bit of hipster attitude … the ‘ Ride With Norm Redus ” UK episode that features Elspeth ( along with Ian Anderson of ‘ Jethro Tull ” ) is worth a watch as well …
… and to reiterate my previous point a little stronger … Elspeth puts a lot of men to shame ( myself included ) with her massive amount of accomplishments .. and that home of hers …. holy ( bleep ) … that thing is incredible
FYI ; YT has more than a few Elspeth videos including a couple of her water tower conversion house available
Hmmm ..
” My name’s the teacher
That is what I call myself
And I have a lesson
That I must impart to you
It’s an old expression
But I must insist it’s true” ( ” The Teacher ” – Ian Anderson )