User:Bri/Hiroko Hori

Hiroko Hori (堀ひろ子) (b.April 1, 1949 Tokyo) was a pioneering Japanese motorcycle racer and long-distance motorcyclist. Hori rode around the world on a Honda CB750F in 1975, and across the Sahara Desert on a Suzuki DR500 in 1982, the latter ride becoming the subject of her 1982 book Landscape with a motorcycle and her 1987 book Me, the Sahara and a motorcycle. In 1976, she became the first Japanese female road racer.

She died in 1985.