AMAZING and awesome are words that can hardly do justice to the stunts performed at this year’s Bikers Fest at the National Park on Sunday, as the Geared Up stunt crew and the Freestyle Motocross riders had the crowd revved up and wanting more until the very end. The show took place in a packed National Park, which became a virtual village, with all kinds of food and entertainment on hand.
Evidently, all precautions were taken since a crew from the Red Cross was on standby, in the event of something going wrong. Police presence was not unnoticeable either, as ranks of the Force marshalled crowds and sent them out of harm’s way when the stunts got going.

Bikers Fest, which is becoming a regular summer event on the calendar of activities in Guyana, has not failed to deliver, with a new wave of skills on display that blows everyone away.
The main attraction this year is no doubt the FMX crew. Using a ramp constructed specially for the purpose, three FMX riders flew into the air in a fantastic aerial display, aptly themed magic in the sky. The heights to which bikers ascended after they shot up the launch ramp were unbelievable. While airborne, they flipped, twisted, let go, and in the final jump, somersaulted with the dirt bikes, much to the amazement of the crowd. The noise from the crowd at this point was deafening.
All of the landings were safe, although in the earlier practice session, one of the riders fell in his attempt to land, and hurt his arm.
Amidst the thick white smoke from the fat rear tyres of the superbikes, and the putrid smell of both tyre and exhaust fumes, not to mention the scream of the engines, fans of all ages lapped up the performances as they came.
The place was a biker’s paradise, with bikes of all makes and descriptions parked in the National Park. Many of the riders who came to enjoy the show came in their body armour, leather jackets and helmets, and looked the part of a hardcore biker.
It seems as though Guyanese are getting used to the moto-machinations of Jacob Brunelle of Geared Up, who wowed the crowd with a number of standing wheelies, rolling burnouts, stoppies and a short melodrama,in which he acted out the role of someone lost and who was in need of a bike for comfort. Then the action started when someone yelled, “bring a bike for Jacob!”
Jacob and the other big bike stunters put in a good, if not great, performance. They had the crowd going with their drifts and engine revving, circle burnouts and standing wheelies, long stoppies, getting dangerously close to the crowd, and rides for selected individuals. Jacob saved his best for last however. When the usually shirtless stunt rider called for an upper body protector, the crowd knew he was going to do something out of the ordinary, if such a term could be used in motorcycle stunting.
Jacob then wowed the crowd with a high chair, high speed wheelie. Before attempting the stunt, he explained that the stunt was especially dangerous, since he would be unable to access the hand operated rear brake lever, located on the left handle bar. This is because of the high- chair manoeuvre, in which the rider sits on the gas tank while the front of the bike is in the air.
Featured also for the night was a wheelie competition for local bicycle stunt riders and a burnout competition for local superbikers. While the winner of the bicycle competition walked away with an undisclosed sum, the winner of the burnout competition received $200,000.
Many patrons to the event said that they had got their monies worth this year at Bikers Fest.