User:Bri/Hiroko Hori

Hiroko Hori
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1949-04-01)April 1, 1949 Tokyo
Died	April 30, 1985(1985-04-30) (aged 36)

Hiroko Hori (Japanese: 堀ひろ子) (b.(1949-04-01)April 1, 1949 Tokyo) was a pioneering Japanese motorcycle racer and long-distance motorcyclist. 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. In 1976, she became the first Japanese female road racer.

She died in 1985.

Bibliography

• 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

• http://rocket-garage.blogspot.com/2013/04/ms-hiroko-hori.html

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Category:1949 births Category:1985 deaths Category:20th-century Japanese women writers Category:Female motorcycle racers Category:Japanese motorcycle racers Category:Japanese travel writers Category:Long-distance motorcycle riders