Trying to Pass the Torch

[Patrick DeZeeuw]

Howdy!
Our journey started 2 years ago when my son Zeke, then 9, told me he wanted to learn how to "build" motorcycles. Two years later we have built two motorcycles.

We tried to join a local community college for their motorcycle course but they wouldn't let my son in because of his age and liability. So we joined two forums Hondatwins.com and Dotheton.com. The members of those forums poured their knowledge and patience into our threads to teach us. If you look at those threads you will see how "green" we were.



http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=45872.0


We took that motorcycle to the Barber Vintage Festival where we met John Viviani, curator for Mr. Barber's Lotus Collection. Mr Viviani introduced us to Bryan Fuller. Mr. Fuller gave Zeke his first TIG welding lesson. Several people we respected said that Zeke needed to learn how to Oxyacetelene weld. So we bought a cobra torch and a rig and built our first tank out of steel. We have 100's of hours in that tank and as many mistakes.


Http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?topic=52299.0

Zeke is still working on his craft and wants to build a tank for this bike out of aluminum this winter.

We were referred to this forum by Constance who works for Mr. Kent White and so here we are.