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Two-time land speed record holder keeps breaking barriers
By Ed Maurer 

Former investment banker, Valerie Thompson, claimed her second 2000 APS PF class motorcycle land speed record at Bonneville in September. I caught up with her a few weeks later for this exclusive interview for MotorcylesMonthly.com and WomenMotorcyclistsMonthly.com magazines.

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Thompson's 2000 APS PF class record motorcycle

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Interview with female Motorcycle Racer, Kim Brauneis
By Astrid Bidanec

Motorcycle racing has traditionally been reigned by men. Times are changing though, and women are certainly holding their own against their male competitors on the race track. One shining example is the fast and furious Kim Brauneis. Here she gives us an exciting view into her world.

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Kim on the race track

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The first female Briton to circumnavigate the globe by bike
By Paul N. Blezard

Elspeth Beard is one of a select band of bold women to pilot a motorcycle around the world, and she was the first Englishwoman to do so. She achieved this feat a quarter of a century ago (1982-‘84. ed), in the days before SatNav and GPS, internet and email, mobile phones and iPODs and she did it mostly alone. The bike she chose for the trip was a second-hand 1974 R60/6 flat twin for which she paid £900 ($1800) in 1980, a substantial sum, at the time, especially for a machine that already had 30,000 miles on the clock!

Elspeth Beard on her BMW R60/6

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