Comments on: High School Motorcycle Projects – Nisky Garage

By: Rich the shop teacher

Rich the shop teacher — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:53:21 +0000

Thank you all for your coments. and as for the blue with Red….. oh well;) it is great to see outside excitement for this. please check out the site and pass it around. feel free to drop us a line we love to hear from everone. I hope to keep doing this for years to come. as for next school year we are going to work with Saratoga auto mesuem to build a green motorcycle based off a CRF and following the motoX class race bikes……
Thanks all
Richie D

By: todd

todd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:58:21 +0000

This is beautiful work. I remember the shop class in my high school; Honda had donated 6 brand new, 1981 silver CBX Super Sports. Only one was ever taken apart. My senior year (1991) I helped load the (still brand new) bikes onto a trailer to be completely scrapped and destroyed, one of the conditions for having the bikes. It was very difficult for me to do.

We had a number of other motorcycles laying around the shop, all old junk needing a rebuild. Though I never was in any of the shop classes I helped my friend build a shifter cart with a CB125 motor. That thing was fast compared to other kids Briggs and Stratton efforts.

While I was (still am) lucky enough to have free, unrestricted access to a machine shop all other kids had to make do with high school or junior college shop classes. Let’s here it for the teachers keeping these courses running!

-todd

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:24:27 +0000

I’m doing an automotive course at my highschool, and sharing a passion for bikes with my teacher, I’m doing some of the machining I need for certain components after school. It’s hard for a seventeen year old to make the sorts of connections that mean I have access to a well-equipped workshop, with an experienced mechanic and machinist looking over my shoulder to make sure I’m doing it right. More teachers need to embark on this sort of project, to actively involve their pupils in learning via their passions. After all, I’m excited about maths, now that I know I can work out the exact place to drill mounting points by just recording some angles.

By: Shaine

Shaine — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:40:56 +0000

My wife loved the fact that there is a female student working on the project too. We both think we need more women in biking that aren’t just there as eye candy to sell bikes. My wife works on bikes with me – she has much smaller hands…

Kudos to these students – if they managed this in highschool; imagine what they will be able to do later in life.

By: hoyt

hoyt — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:25:03 +0000

Most excellent, Kneeslider!

To all of those students out there reading this site: work hard & study hard. There’s a lot to be engineered in the 2-wheeled world.