Steph Jeavons
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Steph Jeavons (born 1975) is a British motorcyclist, author and journalist.[1][2][3] She is the author of Home By Seven and Embrace the Cow. She has motorcycled solo around the world and is the first British person to have ridden a motorcycle on all seven continents.
Early life[edit]
Jeavons grew up in Wales. Her parents and one sister all rode motorcycles. Her grandmother rode motorcycles during WW2. She has one son, who was born in September, 1993. She has one granddaughter.
Career[edit]
She has worked in various professions, as a zoo keeper, H.R. Manager, mortgage adviser, and motorcycle sales advisor.
In 2008, she set up an off-road motorcycle riding school in Wales, with Dakar rider Mick Extance. After working on some borrowed land, six hired bikes, and friends who worked for free, they obtained sponsorship from Honda UK who provided them with 30 bikes and a 4x4.
Between 2008 and 2014, she rode the Transkei in South Africa and the Peruvian Andes. She led guided tours across the Atlas Mountains, in Morocco, and into the sand dunes of the Sahara Desert twice a year. She also crossed the US coast-to-coast four times as a support driver.
On 23 March 2014, she started a four year long motorcycle ride around the world, on a Honda CRF250L dual-sport motorcycle named Rhonda, starting at the Ace Cafe in London and doing a full circle to return there in 2017. She rode across 53 countries and covered 74,000 miles in a single trip.[4]
During this journey, in February 2015, she and her motorcycle touched down on Antarctica twice with the help of Kiwi skipper Cathy on a sixty-foot sailing yacht, the Chilean Navy, a group of Ukrainian scientists, and some Russian sailors, after successfully crossing the Drake Passage in a small sailing yacht.
Her motorcycle Rhonda the Honda resides in the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu.[4]
In 2019, she led an all-woman motorcycle tour to Everest Base Camp on Royal Enfield Himalayans.[3]
She gives inspirational talks to motorcycle shows, groups, and communities.
In 2022 she was named among "5 of the most inspiring female adventure bike riders" in a piece in Adventure Bike Rider.[5]
She planned to take part in the Motor Cycling Club's 2021 Edinburgh Trial, part of the first all-female team to take part, "Team Moto Junkies",[6] but was not listed among the finishers.[7]
Selected publications[edit]
- 2017 Embrace the Cow: How to Ride Around the World on a Budget.
- Home By Seven: One woman's solo journey to ride all seven continents on two wheels
References[edit]
- ↑ Picault, Hilaire (22 April 2022). "Toute seule, cette "easy bikeuse" a parcouru les 7 continents sur sa moto". detours.canal.fr. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ↑ Jeavons, Steph (2020). Home by seven : one woman's solo journey to ride all seven continents on two wheels. [Wales]. ISBN 978-1-8381239-0-1. OCLC 1296665214. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The female bikers heading to the top of the world". BBC News. 14 September 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Honda CRF250L 'Rhonda the Honda'". The National Motor Museum Trust. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ↑ Dunbar, Naomi (8 March 2022). "5 of the most inspiring female adventure bike riders". Adventure Bike Rider. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ↑ "60 seconds with Steph Jeavons". The Motor Cycling Club. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ↑ "2021 Edinburgh Trial Results: Teams" (PDF). Motor Cycle Club. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
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