 Welcome
to the online home of Hans
"No
Way"
Rey and the Hans
Rey Adventure Team
Hans
is considered the world's leader in extreme mountain biking.
He is a former trials riding world champion, a showman,
a stuntman and an adventure mountain biker. He has traveled
the world extensively; riding his GT mountain bikes, over
and through areas previously considered unrideable. All
the while, capturing the cultural, scenic, and spiritual
aspects of these exotic locations; and always in search
of something mystical or historical.
March
9, 2008
Broken
Leg
 I'm
sorry to inform you all, that I had a bad
crash on my downhill bike at the end of February
and that I have severely broken my left foot.
Unfortunately this injury will keep me off
my bike for the next few months.
My accident happened in my hometown of Laguna
Beach. I had just returned home from Europe
the night before and I was doing some downhill
training runs for the legendary RADS Telonix
Leaping Lizard downhill race. I
was just warming up (not going at full speed
- at least I thought i wasn't), but my flu
congestion and head-cold, combined with my
jet-lag, and the Malaria Medicine (I had taken
2 hours before) caused to imbalance my equilibrium
and sense of speed.
Luckily for me many friends, one of whom is
a doctor, were on site to rescue me. They
actually carried me up the hill and then drove
me to the hospital ER.
Unfortunately the x-rays revealed a comminuted
(many pieces) fracture of the tibia at the
ankle joint line. I had the first surgery
last Thursday, they put an external fixator,
which is like an erector set scaffold (see
pic). This will hold the pieces together until
the swelling goes down. After about a week
I'll go back in for more surgery to insert
plates and screws. I will be flat on my back
with my foot elevated for a solid 4 weeks
with these 2 surgeries. Once the skin is healed
and sutures are out I'll be able to get around
on crutches. It will be a few month until
I can ride again, hopefully by summer.
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  February
5, 2008
In
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro
a “heart-core” adventure ride
and Wheels 4 Villages Film Project
Last
spring I decided to combine one of my ‘Hans
Rey Adventure Team’ trips with a project
for my charity ‘Wheels
4 Life’.
Finally I had found, what seemed to be, the
perfect place to start our “Wheels 4
Villages – Film Project” –
to document on film over two years the impact
bicycles will have on communities and the
lives of individuals of the Ugweno Valley
in Tanzania; right in the shadow of Africa’s
highest mountain, Kilimanjaro (5896m/19,344ft.).
Read
the Rest...
Click
here to watch a slideshow/clip from the Wheels
4 Villages Project in Tanzania |
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October
20, 2006
Hans'
& Peaty's Irish Pub Crawl
Dublin,
Ireland
 "That's
it, I had enough, I can't stand anymore pubs
for at least a month or lets say a week",
after spending the last 6 days in an RV camper
together with the current Downhill World Cup
Champion Steve Peat and Irish photographer
Victor Lucas.
Our
mission was to hit some of Irelands best biking
spots, while visiting as many pubs as possible
along the way. The camper was packed with
several bikes from each of us. I brought my
GT i-drive 7 and GT i-drive 5 bikes as well
as my Trials bike, Peaty brought his V10 DH
bike and his Santa Cruz Nomad freerider.
Read
the Rest... | Check
out a Video... |
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| Check
out Hans' non-profit charity 'Wheels 4 Life'
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The
goal is to provide people in Third World countries
with bikes for transportation, in order for them
to get out of the vicious cycle of the poverty trap.
Learn more and see how you can help.
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More... |
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 NO
WAY! -
THE HANS REY STORY DVD
This
NEW documentary on DVD chronicles the life to date
of Hans Rey, who is widely considered the pioneer
of extreme mountain biking. By following his story
from a small town in Southern Germany to his current
homes in California and Tuscany we learn how a boy
with a bike and a dream made his way into Mountain
Biking's Hall of Fame.
[
order here ]
[ watch
the trailer ] |
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