Chris and Erin Ratay

Chris Ratay and Erin Doherty-Ratay are American long-distance motorcyclists. Their 101,322-mile (163,062 km),[1][2] four year circumnavigation of the Earth on BMW F650 and BMW R100PD motorcycles[3] between May 1999 and August 2003[4][5] set a new Guinness World Record for distance ridden by a pair of motorcyclists on two motorcycles.[1][6][7][8]

The couple have appeared on U.S. national live television on NBC News,[9] and the 2012 documentary DVD Achievable Dream: The Motorcycle Adventure Guide.[6] Erin Ratay is one of the subjects of the 2013 PBS documentary film Driven to Ride.[8][2][7] Erin Ratay also was a speaker at the American Motorcyclist Association's 2009 Women & Motorcycling Conference in Keystone, Colorado.[10]

As of 2013, they live in Boulder, Colorado.[8]

Notes and references

Notes
  1. Beech 2003 Trip data: "50 countries, six continents, 1,539 days, $110,000 in expenses, 48 tires used (19 front, 29 rear) and 101,322 miles traveled, 44,000 miles more than the existing Guinness world record for longest ride by a couple on two motorcycles."
  2. Kailus 2013.
  3. Ratay 2014.
  4. Bizar 2003.
  5. Lozano 2004.
  6. Drevenstedt 2012.
  7. Heckel 2013 "broke a Guinness world record for the longest partner riding tour around the world"
  8. O'Connor 2013.
  9. NBC 2003.
  10. Schmitt 2009.

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