Well, although it has been a while since I have posted, I am progressing slowly. I am trying to find someone with a big enough sand blasting unit to have the chrome stripped off the frame so it can go in for powder coating..anyone know a powder coating place near Hamilton? I have rough formed the new engine plates out of checker plate (the shiny patterned metal on Fire Trucks)and will have them finished soon. I have been playing with colour patterns and am still undecided..working on it. I will be posting a few photos soon. Progress is underway and updates will come more frequently.
The weather is warming up and the itch is getting stronger.
Did anyone else find that whenever they came around a left corner that was covered with snow...they applied more gas! As for that matter a right hand corner too!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Meet the builder
Wow...thank you for the responses. A few people wanted to know my background and why I am doing this. Thought I would bring everyone up to speed. I first started riding speedway when I turned 17 and started on a two valve Jawa. I was only in it for 4 years and learned a great amount and met many great people. I was never a great racer but would play myself in the pretty OK field. Won the Division 2 point in Canada and the East Coast US Division 2 event in Greene, NY and moved up to Division I in Canada. For those years I poured my heart and sole into the sport and never regret any of it.
As I left the sport I still enjoyed motorcycles and followed this passion to American Motorcycle Institute in Daytona Beach Fla. A truely great experience for those looking for a mechanical background. When I came back to Canada (after missing the Canadian winter!) I was lucky to get a short time position as a motorcycle mechanic working for Central Ontario Cycle. After leaving there, I started into the personal watercraft field and switched motorsport sports.
For the past few years I have spectated a few of the Ontario races and felt the urge to throw a leg over a bike again and turn a few wrenches. I wanted to get back into the sport but wanted to do it for a cause. Hence, this project. I am a Firefighter and took great pleasure watching the famous Fire bike being built on American Chopper. This inspired the Fire Speedway Bike. Knowing of the Toma Foundation, I desided to utilize this project to gain recognition for them and to try and raise funding.
Please check back to this site often as you will see this bike being built and there will be items for sale as they are donated. All funds raised here will go directly to TOMA.
Thanks for the emails
Scott Collier
As I left the sport I still enjoyed motorcycles and followed this passion to American Motorcycle Institute in Daytona Beach Fla. A truely great experience for those looking for a mechanical background. When I came back to Canada (after missing the Canadian winter!) I was lucky to get a short time position as a motorcycle mechanic working for Central Ontario Cycle. After leaving there, I started into the personal watercraft field and switched motorsport sports.
For the past few years I have spectated a few of the Ontario races and felt the urge to throw a leg over a bike again and turn a few wrenches. I wanted to get back into the sport but wanted to do it for a cause. Hence, this project. I am a Firefighter and took great pleasure watching the famous Fire bike being built on American Chopper. This inspired the Fire Speedway Bike. Knowing of the Toma Foundation, I desided to utilize this project to gain recognition for them and to try and raise funding.
Please check back to this site often as you will see this bike being built and there will be items for sale as they are donated. All funds raised here will go directly to TOMA.
Thanks for the emails
Scott Collier
Help - Parts wanted
Right off the top I am looking for a few reasonably priced good condition parts. Need:
Seat - It will be recovered, just need solid foundation,
Muffler - this one is in poor shape, looking for something better,
Rear fender push bar,
right foot peg (ridgid),
lower rear loop/engine plates mounting bolt
If you have any of these, let me know. scollier3@cogeco.ca
Seat - It will be recovered, just need solid foundation,
Muffler - this one is in poor shape, looking for something better,
Rear fender push bar,
right foot peg (ridgid),
lower rear loop/engine plates mounting bolt
If you have any of these, let me know. scollier3@cogeco.ca
Organization is the key to success
It is a good idea to place small parts in a box. Again this helps make reassembly easy. Keeping parts seperated in small boxes allows you to keep track of everything and lets you know where you stand on your project. For simplicity, and current lack of space, I have chosen to follow the rule of keep it simple stupid and only utilized what I had - one box!
Tear Down
Well, it took a little longer then thought to tear this bike apart. Many different size and styles of nuts and bolts were utilized and much welding held this old beauty together. Many tools were required to take this apart and you can see my favorite one sitting on the rear wheel in this picture. If it won't move, get a bigger hammer! It is important to lay each part out and lable it so parts don't get lost. Keeping the parts grouped also helps for easy assembly. As an example: Frame parts together, engine parts together, brake parts together! As you can see here, I have layed out everything in an organized manner to show absolute professionalism.
Starting point
Well here it is. A real pretty bike...NOT! Some one likes using a welder! Here's the bike and its asperation in the background. Lets see what happens!
Picked Up Bike
Finally schedules meet! Must be a full moon. Yes, we now have something to start with. At a 4:00 pm meeting we had a chance to meet up with Jeff from GT TUNING CANADA and pick up the bike. It looked like a shady deal going down as we met in the parking lot of McDonalds! As we started to make the bike smaller (so it would fit in my truck) a few onlookers had to stop by to see what was happening! Safely loaded it was time to go.
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