James Anderson has a range of disabilities with unpleasant-sounding names such as monoplegia, dispraxia and dyslexia to boot. The first two terms essentially mean paralysis and impaired muscular development, which, as two doctors describe it, "make it difficult to let your body do what we want it to do when we want it to do it."

Letting your body perform movements with precision and timing is central to riding a mountain bike in difficult terrain. James needed training wheels until he was eight years old. Keeping his balance was a huge challenge for him. But his cycling enthusiast father helped him to learn what he needed. Mountain biking became the Welshman's greatest passion and the means to make up for his deficits. Today, he is a bike coach and sponsored downhill and enduro racer.

For a long time, he was not proud to have achieved this despite his disability. He kept it a secret. He didn't want his sponsors, team colleagues or anyone else to know about it. The fact that his entire right side is less muscular than his left was never an issue. He didn't even tell his girlfriend about his diagnosis.

He rides for Orange Bikes, a brand that has been building bikes for people with disabilities for several years. The former Swiss enduro racer Loraine Truong, who has been severely limited since suffering a brain injury, rides an "Adaptive Bike" from Orange. "When Orange launched the AD3, I became even more aware of what mountain biking can offer people with disabilities." His girlfriend, initially perplexed that he had hidden this part of his personality from her, motivated him to tell his story at the age of 28 and inspire other people with disabilities.