Chuck Sheridan
Chuck started teaching chopper and custom bike building 9 years ago in 2000. He was the first to teach custom bike building. At that time a 180 rear tire was the biggest tire you could get, and the 96 cubic inch S&S engine was the biggest engine you could get! It was virtually impossible for just anyone to easily acquire the technical knowledge required to build a custom bike at that time.
His first teaching materials in 2000 were produced with the shop supervisor at Chillicothe Harley Davidson - an ace mechanic named “Dog” who had the “PHD” certification from the factory and a lifetime of experience in shops and custom building.
Chuck's engine building workshop was originally taught by John Schumacher who was trained at the Harley Davidson factory in Milwaukee in 1979 - five years before the Evo engine was manufactured!
For 10 years John was a Working Service Manager at Glen Jordan Motorsports Harley Davidson where he supervised 10 other mechanics. John has repaired and rebuilt hundreds of Evolution, Shovelhead and Panhead engines in the last 30 years. If the mechanics could not fix the engine, John had to step in and do it!
Chuck has completed ENGINE BUILDING and FUEL INJECTION classes at S&S Cycle, and his shop is now an S&S Cycle Sidewinder Engine Center.
He was also schooled at the engine building workshop hosted by an engineer who works in the Harley Davidson Engine Research and Development Department at the Harley Davidson factory in Milwaukee. This engineer builds engines and runs them to destruction as typical R&D procedure! You talk about technical knowledge. We got it in spades from this mechanic.
Chuck now has a 5,000 square foot commercial shop called Redline Custom Cycle where he builds choppers, sells parts, develops teaching materials, and has the resources to teach hands-on seminars in chopper building, engine building, TIG welding and lathe work.
Chuck also has 9 years experience as a journeyman oil and gas pipeline welder in Texas and Louisiana at the oil refineries of Shell, Exxon, Arco, Amoco, International Paper - as well as Hak Pijpleiding in Holland (Europe).
His TIG and stick welding experience with a myriad of applications will help jump-start students with tricks that you don’t learn in welding school. His original training was at Hobart School of Welding in Troy, Ohio.
The “war stories” he has acquired through building custom bikes through the years are what he feels will help students the most – not just bolting a bike together. Chuck has been wrenching and riding for 30 years. He started riding at 16 with a 2 cylinder 250cc two-stroke kick-start bike that he rode through the entire winter in Rochester, New York!
Redline Custom Cycle is a dealer for S&S Cycle, Bikers Choice, Custom Chrome, Midwest Motorcycle Supply, MC Advantages, Wire-Plus, and Cycle Electric. Through Redline Custom Cycle Chuck offers rock bottom parts discounts to students building bikes.
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