A conversation with Elsbeth Beard at Skog 2025

Elspeth Beard at SKOG 2025 — Exclusive Interview Trail-blazer Elspeth Beard—first British woman to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle—sat down beside the camp-fire at SKOG™25 (22 May 2025, Mullsjö, Sweden) to talk grit, gears and gravel. Four decades after her 56 000 km solo ride on a 1974 BMW R60/6, she reflects on border crossings in the pre-GPS era, turning an abandoned Surrey water-tower into an award-winning home, and why Hollywood has optioned Lone Rider for the big screen