IN October 1967, 26-year-old Mary Sievier set off to ride to India on a 175cc BSA Bantam motorbike. She reached India and then kept going. She rode around the world, taking nine years, making her the first British woman to make the journey alone.
In 2021 she sat down with a film-maker and told her story and these eight episodes make up the uncut audio recording from that film. Mary Sievier, in her own words. You can see the film here: https://vimeo.com/860157884 (https://vimeo.com/860157884)
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TAKING the advice of her partner, David, Mary leaves him behind in Hong Kong and follows her bike to America. She rides it across the USA to Georgia and then puts it on a ship to Felixstowe.
Mary's story remained largely unknown to the public until 2021 when she was invited to appear at The OVERLAND Event, a festival for adventure motorcyclists. Later that same year she met with film-maker Martyn Moore who recorded her telling her story. You can see a very short version of the film here: https://vimeo.com/860157884 (https://vimeo.com/860157884)
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1 Sept 2023
Mary Motorcycle Episode 7
MARY gets work as a nanny to New Zealand families but leaves it all behind to explore south-east Asia, where there is trouble brewing.
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1 Sept 2023
Mary Motorcycle Episode 6
IF over-attentive men weren't enough to deal with in Australia, the weather and the distances start to take their toll.
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1 Sept 2023
Mary Motorcycle Episode 5
IT was in Australia that Mary started to call herself 'Mary Motorcycle' because the Australian media could not pronounce or spell Sievier correctly. Turns out that the media was the least of her troubles down under.
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1 Sept 2023
Mary Motorcycle Episode 4
MARY continues to ride south through Africa, all the way to Cape Town. She then heads from South Africa to Australia on a cargo ship with a pair of very unpleasant fellow passengers.
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1 Sept 2023
Mary Motorcycle Episode 3
AFTER surviving her fall in Turkey, intrepid Mary crosses Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan and arrives in India. Here, she decides to continue her journey, taking a ship to Africa and heading south.
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30 Aug 2023
Mary Motorcycle Episode 2
MARY makes her way through Yugoslavia and Greece, and successfully crosses into Turkey but hits a snag on the coast road.
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29 Aug 2023
Mary Motorcycle Episode 1
MARY sets off from England on her tiny motorcycle, heading for India. Episode one sees her negotiate the Parisian traffic and follow the Riviera, towards Greece.
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