Dave Barr

Dave Barr (born April 12, 1952) is an American veteran of the Vietnam War and a motorcyclist best known for being the first double amputee to circumnavigate the globe. He lives in Bodfish, California where he is hired to as a motivational speaker traveling in the Us and abroad. He is also the author of three books and was inducted into the American Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2000. Plus the Strugis Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2013. Barr joined the US Marine Corps when he was 17 and served in Vietnam on a helicopter gunship. After his discharge from the Marines in 1972 he lived in various locations around the world and served in the armed forces of several countries, including: two years with the Israeli Parachute Regiment and one year Rhodesian Light Infantry. He was in the middle of two years of service with the South African Defence Force when he was injured in a land-mine explosion in Angola in 1981. In 1981 while riding in a military vehicle in southern Angola, his vehicle drove over a land mine and the resulting explosion cost him both of his legs, above the knee on the right and below the knee on the left. Prosthetic legs allowed him to complete his tour of duty. In 1990 Barr being the first person to ride a Harley-Davidson 83,000 miles around the world. He went on to do a Guinness Book record ride including a 13,000 mile Atlantic to Pacific segment across Northern Europe, Russia,and Siberia in the dead of winter.From Dec 8, 1996 to Apr- 1997. Barr also set a second world record for riding what he called The Southern Cross. In just 45 days form October to Nov 2002, he completed the first motorcycle journey ever between the four extreme geographical corners of the Australian continent"