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044 - Build Moto - building motorcycles with high schoolers

044 - Build Moto - building motorcycles with high schoolers

Released Wednesday, 16th August 2023
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044 - Build Moto - building motorcycles with high schoolers

044 - Build Moto - building motorcycles with high schoolers

044 - Build Moto - building motorcycles with high schoolers

044 - Build Moto - building motorcycles with high schoolers

Wednesday, 16th August 2023
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Housekeeping

  • Harley 120th went great
  • Green Day was ready for rain, Foo Fighters sold out
  • Jeremy’s ride to Calumet, Michigan celebrating 50 times around the sun
  • Riverwest 24 - the stoke is building
  • Sturgis

BUILD MOTO

https://www.instagram.com/buildmoto/

https://buildmoto.com/

  • Teaching high-schoolers motorcycle building

 

  • Scotty Kaslowski - Mentor at New Berlin Eisenhower 
    • Board Member
  • Kirk Topel - Started as a sponsor
    • School and Team Liaison
  • Build is unique to the Milwaukee area, bringing motorcycles and racing to high schoolers
  • Bringing the skills and trades to the attention of the high-schoolers
  • Challenges to show the skills the students learned
  • Get the kids to dream, design, and build
  • Cool to see the bikes actually flat-track raced
  • Some bikes get raffled off to raise funds and move them along
  • Get the bikes on the track keeping the students and mentors together
  • AMA District 16 Build Class
  • Royal Enfield is giving bikes, parts allowance and build budget
  • Bike together, bike running, dyne competition, race, pit crew challenge

 

  • Scotty
    • Growing up without father - got into racing, fabricating, and started own shop
    • Watching street racing behind South Gate mall
    • Motorcycle at 15
    • Street bikes
    • Good opportunity to teach others

 

  • Kirk
    • Father at American Motors
    • Father in the dealership world
    • Always in the motorcycles
    • Riding motorcycles to the local dirt track races - Santa Fe, Elkorn, Wausau, Cedar Rapids
    • Father applied to be Harley Dealer and opened Hal’s
    • Now recruits mentors and teams for Build
    • Studying to be a schoolteacher

 

  • Biker community - always about fundraising
  • How do we get the kids interested in being techs in the outside world
  • Patience of the mentors, whether a teacher or not
  • Some past students have;
    • Gone to work at Harley
    • Become mentors and team leaders
    • Became a tech ed instructor
    • Won a bike building championship at Sturgis
    • Gone to engineering school
    • Got jobs in tech and trades
  • Looking forward to more teams
  • Would like to help other groups happen across the nation
  • The main fund raiser is the Brew Town Rumble
  • How can we help Build Moto to help more kids?
  • There is a tribe out there for everyone revolving around motorcycles
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