Hiroko Hori | |
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Nationality | Japanese |
Born | Tokyo | April 1, 1949
Died | April 30, 1985 | (aged 36)
Hiroko Hori (Japanese: 堀ひろ子) (b. April 1, 1949 Tokyo) was a pioneering Japanese motorcycle racer and long-distance motorcyclist.[1] Hori rode around the world on a Honda CB750F in 1975, and across the Sahara Desert on a Suzuki DR500 in 1982, the latter ride becoming the subject of her 1982 book Landscape with a motorcycle and her 1987 book Me, the Sahara and a motorcycle.[citation needed] In 1976, she became the first Japanese female road racer.[citation needed]
She died in 1985.
Bibliography
edit- Hori, Hiroko (1982). オートバイのある風景 [Landscape with a motorcycle]. Sara Books.
- Hori, Hiroko (1987). サハラとわたしとオートバイ [Me, the Sahara and a motorcycle]. Kodansha Bunko. ISBN 4061840509.
References
edit- ^ "Motorcycle heroes". Moto Navi. No. 82. June 2016. JAN 4910087030660.
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