If you’re looking for an inspiring tale, it’s hard to top that of Annie Kopchovsky, who left her home in 1894 to cycle around the world on her 42-pound Columbia bicycle. Not only did she circle the earth within 15 months, claiming the title of first woman to bike around the globe, but she also earned $5,000 en route – a small fortune for the time – and proved to a skeptical public just what a woman was capable of.
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In 1890, William Sachtleben and Thomas Allen set off to travel the world by bicycle. They returned 3 years later, having covered over 15,000 miles. At the time it was the longest continuous land journey ever made and took them through the Middle East and Asia. They returned and wrote a book: Across Asia on a Bicycle.