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Hello. Radio. Hello, here's Herbert Schwartz from Tour attack in southern Germany and you're listening

to Adventure and Radio. You may have heard the name Touritek, but what you haven't heard is the name

Herbert Swartz.

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.

Herbert, welcome to Adventure Rider Radio.

Thank you.

Where in Germany are you now Herbert?

From southern Germany, from the

So Herbert you had mentioned that you started riding back in 1980 with your first motorcycle.

Can you tell us what drove you to a motorcycle or what attracted you to the motorcycle to begin with?

Yeah, the first thing was I had a girlfriend that was living 1,000 kilometers away from the place I were living these days.

And the motorcycle for me was the cheapest and the fastest possibility to meet her.

And after a while, when I went to the Britannia from Germany Friday

thousand kilometers and on Sunday the next thousand I discovered motorcycle riding is

more than just making distances

So even the thousand kilometers that you're obviously driven to ride for another reason you

discover that the motorcycles is something special.

Yeah, for me it was something special. You could feel the rain, you could feel the heat, you could feel everything.

It made you a lot different to taking a train or a car.

Now were you traveling before this? taking a train or a car.

Now were you traveling before this in other means hiking or driving? Yeah, I used trains a lot.

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