For 22-year-old brothers Sawyer and Shannon — the twins behind Twinstunts — standing wheelies and synchronized drifting on high-power sportbikes — effectively, that’s simply one other Saturday afternoon. Nevertheless it wasn’t all the time that straightforward for the younger performers.

Again in 2015 in Valders, Wisconsin — a city Sawyer assured me positively has extra cows than individuals, the brothers had been simply two of the best-known motion junkies round. Beginning on filth bikes at age 5, they simply obtained into skateboarding, BMX, and just about anything that concerned velocity and wheels.

Though some may say Sawyer is the extra outspoken of the 2 (additionally older- however solely by 2 hours), it was really Shannon who obtained on a motorbike first. Shopping for his first stunt bike in 2015 and shortly catching on prompted Sawyer to search out his personal bike on Craigslist and get began catching up together with his brother.

“I used to be nonetheless dirtbiking and he helped me get to the place he was,” mentioned Sawyer, “after which we simply pushed one another.”

Earlier than performing with sponsors (notably Quicksilver) at massive motorsports occasions like our Road America race two weeks in the past, the fellows spent hours driving out of city, tenting out in Sawyer’s Honda Civic, and going door-to-door attempting to guide occasions. Up to now, they’ve performed between 40–50 occasions, with 20 of these occurring this 12 months alone.

“It’s a reasonably large 12 months for us,” mentioned Sawyer, naming the current Highway America efficiency as his all-time favourite. Being from WI, Highway America is residence turf for the brothers, and solely 25 minutes from their hometown.

“Actually Highway America is by far our favourite, and MotoAmerica normally. It’s the best so far as crowd suggestions, and we have now so much native followers there — we’re all the time bringing individuals there to eat,” remarked Sawyer, referring to the unimaginable meals tradition Highway America occasions are recognized for.

Final 12 months, the fellows even competed within the XDL Road Bike Freestyle Championship (sponsored by Quicksilver Lubricants). They went to all 4 rounds, competing in mini-bike lessons, professional lessons, and drift limbo occasions. Regardless of their rising success, the journey for this was paying homage to earlier ones they took — driving 36 hours to the Sonoma occasion in a loaded up Honda with three tents within the again.

So what does a Twinstunts present seem like? Roughly six bikes (4 Yamahas: two MT-09s and two YZF-R3s and two Harleys: a Sportster 1200 and an XR-1200) and an entire lot of coordination. Throughout the roughly half-hour performances, you may anticipate to see every man driving all of the bikes, and interesting in close-contact stunts that almost all performers wouldn’t try: synchronized drifting, one-footed wheelies, and extra.

“It’s a driving stage that nobody else actually has as a result of we journey collectively each day of the week. It’s one thing it’s a must to see stay,” explains Sawyer. “The dual image-twin vibe is clicking.”

This 12 months will proceed to be an enormous one for the fellows, as they alluded to some “fairly massive secret stuff” and “bulletins so far as model and staff later this summer season.”

When requested what impressed them to persevere by way of the preliminary grind, Sawyer mentioned, “Regionally had been some guys in Wisconsin. Individuals ask us to return journey with them, however we realized we had been good and simply saved hungry.”

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