Benoit Treluyer was just age 4 when he obtained his first set of motorized wheels.
"My father was a motocross fanatic," he reminisces, just a short walk from his condo overlooking Tokyo Bay. "I kept saying I wanted to try. He kept putting me off, saying I was too young."
Then on his birthday, his father teased him, saying maybe he would bring something back after work.
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