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My name is Jeff, and today my very special guest is Hans Ray.

Hans is a mountain bike trials legend and global ambassador for the sport,

exploring and documenting exotic locations around the world by bike.

His nonprofit Wheels for Life provides bicycles for transportation to folks in developing countries.

He was inducted in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1999, and he's an Imba Honorary Board Member.

Thanks for joining us, Hans.

Jeff, you got that intro wired, yeah.

I'm still close to be talking to you today.

Yeah, well, it's an honor.

So what was the spark that got you so interested in riding bicycles early on?

Well, the spark for me was really motorcycles.

We had a motorcycle trials club in my hometown in Germany where I grew up and me and my

mates thought, man, that would be cool to do that. And I guess our parents thought we were a little

bit young or maybe it was dangerous or expensive. So we started imitating the trials motorcycles

on our bicycles, like, you you know just converted our regular bikes

we had and stingrays and stuff like that and started hopping around and before we knew it we had

50 kids in our hometown that were doing it and oh wow we didn't invent the sport by any means there was

other groups and places in Europe that already practiced trials.

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