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Born in 1909, Theresa Wallach went motorcycling against the not unreasonable wishes of her parents, and she won a scholarship to study engineering in 1928. She was half of a team that rode from London to Cape Town in 1935, but that's another post some other day. She wrote a book about it, "The Rugged Road",  and though no photos were known to exist, her teammate's slides were discovered by accident in Jan 2018, and sold at auction During WW2 she served in the Army Transport Corps, first as a mechanic and later she became the first woman to be a despatch rider in the British Army, where she served for 7 years. After the war she rode across the US, Mexico, and Canada by motorcycle, with a sleeping bag and full saddlebags, travelling some 32,000 miles in the process. The tour lasted for two-and-a-half years and was funded on the long trek by stopping and taking 18 odd jobs – everything from airplane mechanic to dishwasher – just long enough to earn enough money to get ba...

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When new, Carol's Mustang was your average C-code 289 automatic hardtop clad in Lime Gold Metallic with black standard interior. It was the proverbial school teacher car with optional black vinyl top, air conditioning, power steering, and wheel covers. As a busy educator in the late 1960s, Carol drove her Mustang an average of 30,000 miles a year. The original 289 expired at 225,000 miles when the radiator and water pump failed simultaneously, causing the engine to overheat. After rebuilding, the 289 went another 113,718 miles before it spun a bearing. Peterson Machine replaced it with fresh 289. At 508,536 miles, Bailey Brothers in Vallejo rebuilt the replacement engine when it lost a cylinder. That engine now has over 300,000 miles on it. The 8-inch rear axle with 2.79:1 gears has never been touched. Over the 43 years, the Mustang has had three engine overhauls, two transmission overhauls and five paint jobs. And then one god damn teenage rear ended it, and it's now probably...

Antoine Boulard, a French biker who decided to head down a path in Queenstown (New Zealand) without putting his hands on the handlebars. https://www.todomountainbike.net/art/espectacular-descenso-sin-manos-de-antoine-boulard-en-un-sendero-de-queenstown He's known for a video series, and a lot of downhill mountain biking on just the back wheel

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The 1893 fair organizers and Congress’s goal was to stir men’s blood, to surpass the marvels of the Exposition Universelle produced by France and held in Paris in 1889, which had been so majestic and exotic that no one thought it could ever be equaled. America’s pride as an international power demanded a response, something to eclipse the French exposition and its Eiffel Tower. Alexandre Eiffel, a French engineer, was hired to create the grandest spectacle of all. The World’s Columbian Exposition was the answer, and four cities—New York, Washington, D.C., St. Louis and Chicago—submitted bids. After several rounds of intense lobbying, Congress awarded the charter to Chicago. Burnham, the director of works for the 1893 world’s fair, spent more than $22 million (almost $600 million in today’s dollars) to make it happen. Attendance on the fair’s best day, Chicago Day, was 761,942 people, which beat out the best day, by almost half, at the Paris exposition. the main axle was made by Bethle...

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