Simon and Monika Newbound are long distance motorcyclists from the United Kingdom.
In May 2002, husband and wife Simon and Monika Newbound departed from Dublin, Ireland with the goal of riding two BMW motorcycles continuously until they had completed a total circumnavigation of the earth by the widest landmass from Sligo, Ireland to St John's, Newfoundland, Canada and exceeded the existing Guinness World Record of 99,600 kilometres (61,900 mi).
[2] Their route went eastward from Sligo, Ireland to St. John's, Newfoundland, through 71 countries including Norway, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan, Canada, and the United States.
Monika and Simon rode their bikes through the Gobi, Sahara, Mojavi and Kavir deserts.
[3] Prior to their first major journey, neither had any experience of motorcycle mechanics, and Monika had never undertaken a long distance trip before.