Release date: 10/10/19

Shebbie gets in touch with her inner rebel and goes on a maverick ride through the city of San Francisco.

Inside The Episode: San Francisco

History:

Founded by the Spanish in 1776, San Francisco was little more than a military outpost and sleepy fishing port for the first century of its existence. But everything changed in 1848 when James Marshall discovered gold in the rolling hills of California, sparking the famous Gold Rush of 1849 and drawing tens of thousands of adventurers and dreamers to the city of San Francisco in search of their fortune.

Ever since, San Francisco has been defined by its rebellious outlook and entrepreneurial spirit.

In the face of disaster in 1906, after the devastating San Francisco earthquake, the city was astonishingly rebuilt in less than ten years time through the persistence and belief of its stalwart residents.

At the height of Vietnam War in the 1960’s and 70’, the city was home to the American Anti-War Movement. Fostered by the intellectual life found on the university campuses of Berkeley and Stanford, “hippies” flocked to the city to challenge the political status quo, culminating in the 1967 Summer of Love.

The same maverick outlook that first drove treasure hunters to California in 1849, inspired a new wave of fortune seekers to pioneer technology in the 1980’s, bringing about the Dot-Com Boom of the 1990’s.

In the 21st century, San Francisco has become the home of the LGBT Civil Rights Movement as well as the current Silicon Valley Tech-Boom, proving that the city will only continue to embrace it’s rebellious legacy well into the future.

Motorcycles:

The first production motorcycles were built by Hildebrand & Wolfmüller in 1894 as a motorized version of the bicycle. Soon afterwards, motorcycles were mass-produced by the now-famous Triumph Motorcycles in England in 1898.

During World War I, motorcycles proved to be a reliable alternative to horseback-riding messengers on the front lines for both sides and demand for the bikes increased dramatically.

Across the pond in the United States, William S Harley and Arthur Davidson founded Harley-Davidson and by 1920 they had become the largest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world and a namesake brand for the bikes.

To this day, motorcycles are emblematic of the danger and freedom of the open-road.