Herbert Schwarz - Still Living The Dream

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Herbert Schwarz - Not a Typical CEO - Still Living the Dream The name Touratech is well known among, especially, BMW fans but not the name Herbert Schwarz. Find out why. Herbert Schwarz is not your typical CEO. He does run an expanding business with three hundred plus employees but his real passion is what got his company started - adventure motorcycling. Find out what Herbert says about what he'll do if work prevents his riding. More at http//www.adventureriderradio.com

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0:00.0	The You're listening to Adventure Rider Radio.
0:17.0	Hello. Radio. Hello, here's Herbert Schwartz from Tour attack in southern Germany and you're listening
0:29.7	to Adventure and Radio. You may have heard the name Touritek, but what you haven't heard is the name
0:51.8	Herbert Swartz.
0:53.7	Today you're going to hear his story. So I'm speaking with Herbert Schwartz, who is the CEO and founder of Tour Teck and a world traveler from a long time ago now.
1:15.0	Herbert, welcome to Adventure Rider Radio.
1:17.0	Thank you.
1:18.0	Where in Germany are you now Herbert?
1:20.0	From southern Germany, from the
1:27.0	So Herbert you had mentioned that you started riding back in 1980 with your first motorcycle.
1:29.0	Can you tell us what drove you to a motorcycle or what attracted you to the motorcycle to begin with?
1:36.2	Yeah, the first thing was I had a girlfriend that was living 1,000 kilometers away from the place I were living these days.
1:45.0	And the motorcycle for me was the cheapest and the fastest possibility to meet her.
1:51.0	And after a while, when I went to the Britannia from Germany Friday
2:00.0	thousand kilometers and on Sunday the next thousand I discovered motorcycle riding is
2:05.9	more than just making distances
2:09.2	So even the thousand kilometers that you're obviously driven to ride for another reason you
2:13.9	discover that the motorcycles is something special.
2:17.6	Yeah, for me it was something special. You could feel the rain, you could feel the heat, you could feel everything.
2:27.2	It made you a lot different to taking a train or a car.
2:32.0	Now were you traveling before this? taking a train or a car.
2:37.0	Now were you traveling before this in other means hiking or driving? Yeah, I used trains a lot.
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