Last night we started the new bike build season. We have 25 students involved at this point. As a group cut up a lot of tubing and started bending frames. This will be the biggest build year yet. Spent three hours at the high school, the students stayed on focus and special thanks for the...
Here is my starting point. Metal 1" tubing (from China) to make the frame. Wheels and tires (from China) and a Chinese predator engine. I have a few parts on the way, such as throttle, torque converter, sprockets, etc. As best I can tell, almost every part will be sourced out of China...
We have 22 kids building mini-bikes this year in the metal shop. An after school club, every kid rides away on a mini-bike if he (or she, 2 girls this year) tries. Pic is the prototype that I build to stay a few steps in front of the kids. We are ahead of schedule this year, most of the...
Revving Up Interest in Metal Trades | Skilled Magazine
This article just came out about the high school group I work with. We have 20 kids involved with the club this year.
Being here got me digging through tools I have from way back. My Dad and I used to have a shop in our garage 30 years ago. I know there are more, just buried in the clutter someplace. There is even a press jig for straightening cranks buried somewhere.
I know I am late into this. I have a group of shop kids at Centenial high in Portland Oregon. We we making frame up mini bike builds. I am leading the group with a design and prototype. We started at the beginning of the year, previous to that there were meetings and some layout work. We went...
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