044 - Build Moto - building motorcycles with high schoolers

Mama Tried x Flat Out Friday Show

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