Hampuz Fardby

As promised here is another photo from the Motor Fever event. The guy you see here is is Hampuz Fardby. He is one of the top Freestyle motorcycle stunt drivers in Europe. He started his career as a trial racer and was very successful for nearly a decade. When that became boring he practically invented the new sport Freestyle riding, and that's what he has been doing for the last seven years. Travelling around Europe with his bikes. One of his tricks is a backflip with his trial bike. There's not that many people who can do that trick. I asked if he had been involved in any scary accidents and he said that he had broken most of the bones in his body. Last year alone he had six operations and quite a few stitches. He can do amazing stunts on his bike and he will continue doing what he does best for as long as he gets a kick out of it. More photos and videos on his website. And to see some of the photos I took during the Motor Fever event press the white arrow below.

Motorcycle Stunt Show

There was a cool event in Handen last weekend called Motor Fever. A couple of very talented stunt drivers put on a great show. I will show both of them in action, starting today with the local hero Andreas Gustafsson from Vega. He is a semi pro, sponsored by Yamaha who pays for everything he needs. As I arrived Andreas was out on the tarmac and when he finished one of his runs I walked over for a chat. He told me that he averages twenty shows per year at the moment. Earlier this summer Andreas competed in the Stunt Riding German Open at Hockenheim for the first time and he finished in 22-second place. His mother told me that sometimes when he is practising his stunts there can be as many as 50 teenage boys watching his every move and trying their best to copy his tricks on their mopeds. The stunt he is performing on the top photo earned him a lot of applauds. On the second photo you can see four volunteers that spent what must have felt like the longest fifteen minutes of their lives on the asphalt being jumped over by the two stunt drivers. What you can't see on the third photo is Andreas latest injury, a burned hand. His mother said it looked like a football before Andreas put on a glove and the skin collapsed, that was one week ago but a small injury like that doesnt stop a dare devil...