In 1932, 23-year-old Englishman Robert Fulton Jr set off on a 40,000-mile solo motorcycle trek from London to Japan. His incredible footage of the journey is one of a selection of films being shown in England 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 “unknown”. This is an edited extract from the film.
8 Responses to “Around The World On A Motorcycle In 1932”
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Really interesting stuff. The world has changed so much. some places more than others. Not always for the good I think.
Love this kind of movie
Wish I could hear from this man all the traveling stories.
Fantastic ! Want to see all he did and read his book.
Read his account of the trip: ‘One Man Caravan’ – one of the best Moto-travel books ever, along with Ted Simon’s ‘Jupiter’s Travels’
WHY WE RIDE, and explore while doing so. 🙂
and if you find this interesting look fora book called ‘Around the World on a Motorcycle’, by Zoltan Sulkowsky…ISBN978-1-884313-77-6
he rode round the world 1928 to 1936 on a Harley Davidson with a sidecar and two friends
i met a Hungarian guy in 2011 at a motorcycle event and he gave me a copy of the book, his goal was to try and retrace the route that Sulkowsky rode, that he had first read in one of his grandfathers motorcycle magazine back in communist Hungry in the 80’s.
Sadly he was killed in a motorcycle accident in Florida in 2014 and didn’t get to realize the dream
What an adventure!