Motorbiking gran, 62, to sell up and travel the world

Motorbiking granny Sue O'Grady has put her £200,000 house up for sale so she can spend the next 10 years exploring the world on her beloved Harley Davidson. Intent on living life to the full, the 62-year-old plans to blow every last penny she owns on the road trip of all time. As she laughed off her family's fears about the big adventure and said: "They think I'm absolutely crazy – but you only live once, and I'm going to make the best of it while I've got the chance."

The former hairdresser, from Sprotbrough, Doncaster, has no qualms about selling her six bedroomed semi – where's she's lived for the last 20 years – to pay for the marathon trip aboard her 1450cc machine worth £18,000. She said: "I love my home, I've lived there a long time and it's everything I ever wanted, but I probably love my Harley a lot more on balance, so the house has got to go.



"I can travel a long way and see a lot of the world with the proceeds from the sale, and if I can stretch the money out and make it last for eight or 10 years then so much the better." The pensioner, who is divorced with two grown-up sons and a four-year-old grandson, has clocked up over 100,000 miles on her bike – travelling all over Britain and Western Europe with fellow enthusiasts from the Harley Davidson Owners Group.

Sue intends to hit the road once her house has been sold, and has already sought advice from fellow Harley owners in America, South Africa and the Middle East to plan her route. She added: "I've travelled an awful lot of miles over the last few years, but I'm itching to see the rest of the world now. I've virtually done all of Europe already, apart from Russia, but there's the whole of America to explore, and Africa and the Middle East and Australia to look at as well."