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World Champion and bike builder in Marbella, Spain.
If you read spanish custom biker magazines you will for sure find one of Ferry's designed bikes in several of your editions. In fact, he have built so many that the magazines cant keep up and show them all.
His business Hot Dreams Marbella is not large in square meters, but huge in exclusive Ideas and productions. He is like a famous songwriter, new ideas pops up wherever he are and most of them end up as a new bike. He also name all his bikes so Its fit the theme.

Born and raised i Barcelona, moved to Marbella 2001 to fulfil his long time dream, to build new custom bikes, compete in Custom Bike Shows all over the world, and then sell the bike.

How did it all start?
- As a child i used to build my own BMX bicycles. When i was 14 my parents bought me, thanks for being a good student, a very old Montesa. That bike needed a lot of work to make it run properly and look good, and with my brothers help I did it. Later it was a KTM, a Triumph and my first Harley in 1992. I painted and customized all of them myself, and soon my friends and neighbours wanted me to fix and customize their bikes too, so after a while i opened my own business.

Your first modified bikes?:
- I customized my Montesa Cota -74 at age 14 but my first really big bike was a Triumph Bonneville 750 that i customized in 1989, at 19 of age.

Did you learn about mechanical works/bikes in a class or by hard work?:
- Half /half. I learned a lot of theory in class but nothing seems to be the same when you get the tools in your hands, and my Triumph was the best bike in the world for practicing works on. It was different times then, when bikers where bikers and no posers. Being a biker often mean spending time to wrench seated beside the road, meet other bikers, and reach the bar very late. Dirty and tired but happy to cheer a beer and speak about what happened this time.

I usually don't visit biker bars anymore since I started to notice that people just was explaining how much their brand new shiny chrome parts cost them, or to show up their new 500€ jacket, totally without a clue if they have a carbureted or an injected motor between their legs.

You have a Swedish wife? Kids?:
- Karin Hjort from Norrtälje, she was actually my first customer in Marbella. She had a 883 Sportster she wanted to convert to a 1200 for a faster ride. She was blonde and single. What else does a man need after his motorcycle? We have been together since that day and my son Elvis Clot was born in 2007, (probably to check how many things he could find to play with in daddy´s workshop).
My other two daughters that live in Barcelona, Anna (12) and Sandra (14) likes to be treated as starlets at the bike shows, so, if you see them, treat them like that.

Other Swedish connections? friends?
- Many friend on the coast, bikers and not, from Karin´s circle mostly but from the workshop itself too.
- I've been four times in the Norrtälje area since 2002, in winter, summer, christmas and in June for the amazing Norrtälje bike show.

When did you open the shop, and started the business to 100%?:
- January 2002, the firsts months was under 100% but I did get customers quite soon. It was nothing but Harley dealers in the area at that time, so customers looking for better options where really hungry. They did bring their friends, and so on.

When did you build the fist bike for competition, and where?:
- My first prize was "Best Custom" at the Rubikers show in Rubí, a little city close to Barcelona in 1995. I didn't´t built that bike for the shows, it was my daily ride, but I was there so why not? Back home I was the happiest man on earth, with my trophy in form of the handlebar, like Marlon Brando in the Wild One.
I knew I had to feel what I felt that moment at least once again, and again, and again...

Can you list what bikes you built have been in a European or US shows.:
- Not many, but with a very good result. In European shows have been Reloaded, Vegas Looser, Wings of Freedom, Born to Run, da´Bomb and Ramera. In the US only La Holyness and Guindilla.
Now I'm building my bike No 30, Panafina, witch i will bring to Sturgis in August 2009 and try to get my World Champion title back in the modified Harley Class.

How many podiums 1, 2, 3 have you get over the years?:
In Spain I've been winning to many Best of Show prizes to name them here, in Faro Portugal, two third prizes, in Paris France a top ten, in Mainz Germany another third prize and a first prize in Sturgis, US.

You are a world champion! - Tell me about that event:
The World Championship of custom bike building 2007 in Sturgis was the second time i was competing in US, the first was in 1995 in Las Vegas. And as I had visited the country 4 times before I expected a great time, bikes and rock music, but I could never imagined how impressed I could be of everything over there. Winning the title, great party etc.
Life is so simple and easy, like living in a paradise for one week, except for the police off course, if you are a biker and you love rock´n´roll. So happy and back home in the shop I did start building a new bike just as an excuse to go back. The prize is the least important, the good vibrations and the good friends i made is everything. To meet my favourite builders was a huge thing too.

What are your vision for the business coming years and events?:
In this moment, nobody knows witch direction the global economy and spanish laws will take.
I believe that many of the small workshops who started a few years ago will disappear, and a lot of business related one way or another to the custom looking, to get extra profit in a limited, very limited world, will close in the next years. Only the strong will survive, Its a fact, and the companies worldwide who not will adapt themselves to the market will go and don´t come back.

Other shops owned by people who doesn't´t need so much too make a living, except their passion for the custom world will continue doing what they always have been doing, even if the dollar is high or low, when the economy are on top or bottom, and with harder or softer laws. Someway the market will clean itself and the ones, who never been in this to be rich, will keep on living full throttle.

What kind of bike do you ride yourself.:
A Custom built bike off course, but built with leftover parts that nobody wants to put on their bikes.
My Vegas Looser is a hard tail (rigid) with an 100" V-Twin engine, open primary, springer forks, suicide clutch and rusted everywhere. Handles very easy and is too fast to not enjoy it.

Any other bike builders you would say are special:
The First name will always be Arlen Ness that has done much more stuff than people know, or have seen in the magazines. He has brought a new dimension of the custom business to the world. Billy Lane from Choppers Inc. as a very imaginative builder and Paul Cox as an metal and leather artist.

I like a lot of builders and styles, but I don´t like builders who repeat themselves. For me it seems that they are in the business only for the money, and they don´t have enough imagination to create something different every time. You can have your own style, but that doesn't´t mean to build all the bikes exactly the same, but in different colours. Anyway, I think its much more interesting to open my mind, and be recognised as the guy who build completely different rides, but all with the same amount of creativity, effort, quality and details on them.

Anything you will share not mentioned above:
The road has been giving me to many stories to fit here and that's why i'm planning to write a book. Anyway, one curios thing happened two years ago, when Josep Gomez, an Art gallery director order me to build him a personal motorcycle. He was so impressed when saw it, that he offered me to fill his gallery with my bikes for an expo in Barcelona. The result was really good so we will repeat the exhibition in Madrid, from May to June this year.

Ok one last before I let you go back to work:
One thing I would like to do, is to build a bike specific for the Norrtälje Bike Show, and ride It from Marbella to Norrtälje, just outside Stockholm, Sweden, participate in the event and ride back home, a total of around 7.500 km. Make stops in bike shops and road cafes to check what, and how, they are doing. Everything filmed to make a DVD.
But for that i need a sponsor, or more, so if you are interested, or you know someone who are, please let me know.