Dave Barr (motorcyclist)

Dave Barr (April 12, 1952 – Nov 8, 2024) was born in Los Angeles, California was an American veteran of the Vietnam War and a motorcyclist best known for being the first double amputee to circumnavigate the globe. He lived in Bodfish, Kern County, California, where he ran a motorcycle tour company. He is also the author of several books and was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2000. Dave Barr was also a keen skydiver; he regularly jumped in Klerksdorp, South Africa (where he spent some years). He was part of a skydiving team called 'Footloose' with three other amputees. While he jumped, he put his artificial legs into a corner of the hangar and hung a sign over it: 'gone skydiving'. At a skydiving event (I believe it was in Pietermaritzburg (South Africa), one of his prosthetic leg came loose and fell several thousand feet into a garden. After informing the public, it was returned to him.