CaNaDiAnNuTcAsE
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Hi I have been working on and building motorcycles since I was 16 years old.
It started for me trading half a 6 pack and a pack of cigarettes for a dead 81 GT80 and stripped out 82 DS80 at a campsite in the woods from a guy who lived there. I have now owned a total of 76 motorcycles in my life. Only 3 of them ran when I bought them. A lack of money and my will to ride has taught me how to fix almost every problem you could imagine on a bike.
This ended two and a half years ago when I committed a crime do to mental health and addictions problems. I have now gone over two years 100% sober and wish to start building bikes again. My current situation sucks, but is probably going to get better soon.
What I would like to do with help and hopefully with other builders in other locations is create a sort of publicly funded group. The whole idea would be to use GoFundMe to collect money to buy bikes build them on Youtube, ride them for 1 to 3 months maximum (to prove reliability) and have the group members decide on a person to give that bike to. All funds in the account would be used for purchase and parts only and every dollar documented. Me and other chosen mechanics (if people want to do this) would be donating the time and labor to the project. In exchange for the short window of riding and testing the bike and been able to give that bike to the deserving and chosen new owner.
Me and any other builder would sign a legally binding contract to ensure no financial gain our use of funds for anything but the bike.
I want to build bikes again, and helping other people get back riding would be ******* awesome.
No GoFundMe has been started. I will not do that until I have people on board and some kind of contract setup. I will be posting this in a few places
In the spirit of transparency my name is Joseph McArthur Pereira email josephmcpereira@gmail.com
This is me and those first two bikes
Also no GoFundme will be created until some people decide this is a good idea and absolutely no donations will be taken until people get behind this and some sort of contract or agreement is created
I'm just going to put this out there. If people do get behind this I have 0 problem not actually being the one buying and fixing the bikes. If people want to get involved they can decide on another person doing the buying and repairs. The idea here is to find old cheap bikes and make them roadworthy and find someone who wants to ride but cant afford it and give them a bike. If I can be a part of that I'm happy. All decisions would be voted on.
It started for me trading half a 6 pack and a pack of cigarettes for a dead 81 GT80 and stripped out 82 DS80 at a campsite in the woods from a guy who lived there. I have now owned a total of 76 motorcycles in my life. Only 3 of them ran when I bought them. A lack of money and my will to ride has taught me how to fix almost every problem you could imagine on a bike.
This ended two and a half years ago when I committed a crime do to mental health and addictions problems. I have now gone over two years 100% sober and wish to start building bikes again. My current situation sucks, but is probably going to get better soon.
What I would like to do with help and hopefully with other builders in other locations is create a sort of publicly funded group. The whole idea would be to use GoFundMe to collect money to buy bikes build them on Youtube, ride them for 1 to 3 months maximum (to prove reliability) and have the group members decide on a person to give that bike to. All funds in the account would be used for purchase and parts only and every dollar documented. Me and other chosen mechanics (if people want to do this) would be donating the time and labor to the project. In exchange for the short window of riding and testing the bike and been able to give that bike to the deserving and chosen new owner.
Me and any other builder would sign a legally binding contract to ensure no financial gain our use of funds for anything but the bike.
I want to build bikes again, and helping other people get back riding would be ******* awesome.
No GoFundMe has been started. I will not do that until I have people on board and some kind of contract setup. I will be posting this in a few places
In the spirit of transparency my name is Joseph McArthur Pereira email josephmcpereira@gmail.com
This is me and those first two bikes
Also no GoFundme will be created until some people decide this is a good idea and absolutely no donations will be taken until people get behind this and some sort of contract or agreement is created
I'm just going to put this out there. If people do get behind this I have 0 problem not actually being the one buying and fixing the bikes. If people want to get involved they can decide on another person doing the buying and repairs. The idea here is to find old cheap bikes and make them roadworthy and find someone who wants to ride but cant afford it and give them a bike. If I can be a part of that I'm happy. All decisions would be voted on.
