21/3
World Champions and bike builders in Marbella, Spain.



Hot Dreams Marbella is primary a bike building business with famous Ferry Clot running the business. But they also do everything else a custom biker can think of, from selling small stickers, to brand new or used Harley's. Also other custom bikes, including parts, accessories, clothes, shoes, helmets and decoration articles. Trough their website you can also purchase a lot of cheap used parts to fix or to customize your ride.

Everything a bike needs can be fixed at Hot Dreams, services and repairs in one day, impossible takes weeks and miracles in one month. But their specialty is to build high quality custom personalized motorcycles by order.

They sell stuff imported from almost all companies in the business, due to the good relationship, created after many years traveling to different bike shows and visiting their suppliers all over the world.
In Europe, famous brands like Tolle from Sweden, CCE, Thunderbike and W&W Cycles from Germany, Zodiac from Holland and Custom Tech from Italy.



They also are dealers for top custom building companies in the States, like Arlen Ness, Black Bike Wheels, Choppers Inc., Crime Scene Choppers, DNA, Drag Specialties, Indian Larry, Magna Charger, Perse Performance, Pipe Dreamz, RC, Redneck, S&S, Strip Club Choppers, Thunder Cycle, Ultima, Weld Racing, WCC and a very long etcetera.

Hot Dreams crew can supply you with any special component you need for a bike but cant´t find in any catalog, they just design and construct it, themselves.

Street Legal bikes.
Up to just a few years ago It has been almost impossible to build and register a home made bike (non stock) in Spain. But now more and more bikes pass the ITV as street legal bikes.
I Sweden this has been possible for a long time, other countries as well, we build wild choppers already back in the 1970:s. So many of us "Guiris" are interested in how, and If, its possible to import or build an un-stock bike. So I've asked Ferry about this:



Can you get a build bike paper/street legal? how does that work in Spain?
- Yes, we can! To make a long story very short, first we need to contact an engineer, specialized in this stuff to check the bike we have built. It´s ride ability, and then a check that all components mounted on/in the bike is 100% legal.
- If so, he will send his documents made from the inspection to the Traffico (Jefatura Provincial de Tráfico) and after a few weeks they will ask us to go to the ITV (Inspección Técnica de Vehículos) where they will check the bike if everything the engineer register on the bike still is the same parts. If everything match the paper we will get the "Ficha Técnica" that we will send to a "Gestoría" where they will supply us a provisional "Permiso de Circulación" valid for two months until we get the regular one.
- It sounds easy, but If you not are a proper workshop as Hot Dreams, with a bike builder title, it gets much more complicated, yea, almost impossible. That´s, after the good weather, is the biggest reason why not many guys build their own bikes in our country.



Ok, we are talking soft tails so far. If I like something harder, can you build street legal rigid frames as well?
- Yea, we do, but this one it´s really tricky. I´will explain it to you when you want me to build you one : ). Every problem has a solution, at least in our shop. All other builders can figure this out themselves.

Agree, do you have any financing alternatives for your bike clients?
We do accept credit cards, where you can do 10% monthly payments for repairs and shop sales, and we finance our bike sales trough BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria).

The Hot Dream team
The first guy you will meet at Hot Dreams is Jordi Campano from Barcelona, Spain, who takes care of the retail sales, paperwork, orders, phone calls and website's. Klaus Veguel from Mannheim, Germany, will be inside the workshop fixing some Harley's or customizing them.
And, if you can find the boss Ferry Clot from Barcelona, he will probably be on the phone, if not creating another unique wild ride for the next show, or for any other lucky customer. Alex Marí from Frankfurt, Germany, should be doing some welding here and there, or building some amazing petrol tank or air filter.

In the early nineties Ferry rued side by side with his brother Franxa Clot, in their own workshop Quality Customs in Barcelona, and at the same time working as a mechanics chief for a Volvo dealership. Too many working ours a day in a very stressed city made him think it was time to move to a more relaxing place. With better weather and be able to ride 12 month a year. And doing just what he always dreamed about: build his own motorcycles.

Ferry opened Hot Dreams Marbella in January 2002 and have built bikes and been traveling all over the world since then, to learn from other builders and competing against them. And as a biker builder world champion, show the old spanish custom market a completely different workshop style where all bikers now can realise their motorcycle dreams. Since that day all spanish biker magazines have published more and more spanish build bikes, mostly build by Ferry and Hot Dreams, and that makes him feel really happy and encourages him to keep doing things his way.