My World Artist Productions in association with Peak HD presents Pirate Bike Build

Join us as we build a bike for charity from parts scavenged pirate style! Benefits Hungry for Music www.HungryForMusic.org

If you're out in Sturgis bring your donations to: 961 Howard St. or look for us hunting the streets for treasures!

Update Friday August 8th, 2008

Day 5: All parts have arrived at the shop and are ready for assembly. Things are really cruising along now. Stay posted to our video page in the next few days. We'll be uploading shorts from the work we've completed so far, and we expect to have our live garage feed up and running soon.

Day 5 Update: Some of the crew pose for a shot Dave Galinski. Jerry Jackman, Mark Leisher, Ken Smith (of Old School Art).  Following a vendor barbecue at the garage a few of the boys get a shot of the bike prior to calling it a night. Gerry & Steve worked until 9:30pm before calling it quits for the night. Ken Smith donated his time and material to paint the Hungry for Music logo on the tank and a few pin-strips to get the message out about our charity bike build project. 50 people (mostly donated vendor heads were on hand to check on the progress. All were very impressed with our project. We have 95% of the parts needed to finish the bike.

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"The 2008 Sturgis Pirate Bike Build"

I had a crazy idea one day while roaming the streets of Sturgis, South Dakota last year. As I went from bar to bar to vendor to bar, I realized that there were a million bike parts around. I said to myself, "if you knew what you were doing you could build a bike from pieces that you gathered out here.but you'd have to do it in a week while the vendors are all in one place". And like so many great ideas, I immediately shelved it.

May 2008: I'm getting ready to take a putt with some friends, we're riding from Jackson Hole, Wy to Telluride, Co for The Telluride Bluegrass Festival and we need another bike. Another guy I know is selling one, I buy it and plan to have it shipped when I meet his brother-in-law who informs me that he can take the bike out because he's heading to Colorado for a shoot. We get to talking and I find out he is Mark Leisher from PeakHD Productions he hips me to his resume and I tell him about my great idea.

July 7, 2008: I see Mark again for the first time since our initial meeting and he tells me he can't get the idea out of his head, "We should do this!" he tells me and so we talk for a couple of minutes and I decide that to be feasible at all we really need someone that can actually build a bike. I'm pretty good with my hands but not that way.

My step-dad is a mechanic and biker from way back, we putt up to a Giants game at the Meadowlands last year and on the way back he blew his engine. He used a guy named Jerry Jackman to rebuild it, I knew he had to be good. I didn't know Jerry so I went up to meet him after the engine was rebuilt and he seemed cool enough. We ran into each other a couple more times here and there, so when the idea reared its ugly head again I decided I'd ask Jerry about it. When I got to Jerry's shop he wasn't there so I asked his other mechanic Steve about it and he said, "It can be done but you'll have to ask Jerry because he'll know, but he'll try to talk you out of it." Jerry came back, after a five minute discussion he was on board.

All of a sudden I've got a production crew and a bike builder. Now what?

I raised a little money made some phone calls and found a two car garage in the middle of Sturgis, right next door to the Harley shop. So we are going to Sturgis with a camera crew, custom bike builder and one hell of a great idea.

I think I have almost everything I need. I hope we can actually pull it off in a week.

-Dave Galinsky