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Our Good friend Jim (aka Dragracer1951) is in the latest issue of American Machinist Magizine. His company is ranked in the "TOP 10 Best Machine Shops" in the country.

http://www.americanmachinist.com/304/Is ... 1829/Issue

The Article found here...

http://www.americanmachinist.com/304/Is ... 1810/Issue

A big CONGRAT to Jim and his wife Tamara!!!!

For those of you not sure about Jim's skill, please read the article.
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Way to go Jim! That's pretty cool.
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That's just awesome to be recognized like that. Way to go!!

Congrats!

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Wow! That's an awesome acheivement. Congratulations!

Here's Jim and Tamara:

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And the link to the article on their shop--Phinney Bay Machine Works:

http://www.americanmachinist.com/304/Is ... 1810/Issue

And here's the shops webpage:

http://www.pbmwgroup.com/

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Very nicely done Jim ... congratulations to you, your wife, and the entire shop.

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Congrats....... :rock

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Congrats from the right side of the country too ... any chance of getting one of those float level gages? Time to clean the carbs again and would like to set the floats a celeb gage.

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Well done and thanks for the excellent dogbones which I recently got
in the mail. Unfortunately haven't had time to fit them yet...
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And yet again....

http://www.americanmachinist.com/304/Is ... 5283/Issue

I just got a call from them this morning and they want to do another article in a month or so because I do bike related stuff also.
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congrats jim, maybe your shop is one of the few that actually comes through on a project. if it is, you're already one step ahead of any shop i have ever tried working with.

now we just need to get you to focus on motorcycle stuff and ditch that other crap. you know, the crap that actually pays the bills.
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Post by dragracer1951 »

Tough to make a living on 15 year old sportbikes though...
Tough to compete with the big guys on the new stuff...
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Is my tail light still working?

"...you can't tune a motor that's hurt. They run much faster on fuel then they do on aluminum." - Elmer Trett

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i can understand that.
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dragracer1951 wrote:Tough to make a living on 15 year old sportbikes though...
Tough to compete with the big guys on the new stuff...
cool! but did'nt you buy a new r1?
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Yea, I did Wili. I was just sayin that it's not easy to make a living on older bikes. Limited audiance. But we have a couple things in the works. They just need to be squeezed in between jobs that actually pay the bills...
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I take my hat off to you Jim, for anyone to excel in Engineering it is a tough nut to crack, it is only earnt through:-

High Standards
Attention to detail
Work ethics

And last but not least - a desire to be the best at what you do!

Well done mate, :cheers and so what!, there are some old work-horses out there that can embarrass a new steed. :banana

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Post by aidybest »

Great stuff Jim

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Looks like your face aint the only thing gleaming matey :)

well done for the accolade ;)

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