Zoltán Sulkowsky and Gyula Bartha (born c. 1904–1905) were Hungarian
long-distance motorcycle riders
Long distance or Long-distance may refer to:
*Long-distance calling
* Long-distance operator
* Long-distance relationship
* Long-distance train
*Long-distance anchor pylon, see dead-end tower
Footpaths
* Long-distance trail
*European long-d ...
who traveled over
on a
Harley-Davidson
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sidecar
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rig between 1928 and 1936. Their travels are recounted in a book originally published in Hungarian in 1937, and reissued in an English translation in 2008.
Their journey started in Hungary in August, 1928, and ended again in Hungary. Along the way they visited sixty-eight countries and regions on six continents, including: France, Germany, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, the Sudan, India, the Arabian peninsula, French Indochina, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Japan, China, Hawaii, and Australia; then after landing in America at San Francisco, they spent two years touring North America then another two years in South America, visiting Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
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Long-distance motorcycle riders
Hungarian travel writers
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1900s births
Year of death missing
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