044 - Build Moto - building motorcycles with high schoolers
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/
- 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