The 3rd Annual Sturgis Buffalo Chip Challenge, a bike build project designed to encourage students to get involved with the motorcycle industry has officially begun at Sturgis Brown High School.  The Sturgis Buffalo Chip ®, along with leading industry businesses including Black Hills Harley-Davidson, Terry Components, Hot Leathers, K & G Cycles and Corbin Seats want to give these students real-world experience while helping to build an industry perfect for South Dakota. 

The program is designed to challenge students to develop skills and knowledge they can use once they graduate.  Students will learn the techniques used to fabricate, customize and finish a stock Road King graciously donated by Black Hills Harley-Davidson.  World-class parts will also be donated for the Sturgis Buffalo Chip Challenge by K & G Cycles, one of the nation’s top retailers of aftermarket motorcycle parts and accessories.

Students participating in the Sturgis Buffalo Chip Challenge will not only have the advantage of state-of-the-art facilities, a new motorcycle and world-class parts for the build, they will have the dedicated support and experience of a motorcycle industry veteran, Keith Terry of Terry Components.  Terry has run a successful motorcycle aftermarket business for more than three decades. 

The finished Sturgis Buffalo Chip Challenge motorcycle is debuted at Western Dakota Tech’s graduation ceremony in the Spring and later photographed for a cover feature in a major motorcycle publication that hits newsstands right before the Sturgis Rally.  During the Rally the motorcycle will be auctioned to help sponsor the Sturgis Buffalo Chip’s annual Legends Ride ®, which has given more than $200,000 to local Black Hills charities in just four years. 

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