Dan started riding BMX at the age of 15 before moving on to mountain biking a year later.

Since then, this North-Wales-dwelling two-wheeled superstar has clocked up a string of honours, including a World Cup 4-Cross victory in Andorra in 2008, a third overall in the 2008 World Cup and a fifth overall in the 2009 World Cup.

Here are some facts that you need to know about Dan...

D.O.B.: 25/01/1982
Disciplines: Mountain Bike Downhill, 4-Cross and Supercross

If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Nothing. I don't dwell on the past. Everything happens for a reason so you accept it and move on.

If you could go back in time, where would you go?
Some rad age like the dinosaur era, just to see that power and size come alive. It would be totally humbling.

How do you express your creativity?
By sculpting dirt with a five-ton digger.

Tell us a secret.
I did lift the handbrake when I rolled that car. It wasn't the leaves on the road.

How would you like to be remembered?
As someone who never gave up.

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