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Motorcycle Mechanic Institute ???
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[QUOTE="SFO, post: 613393, member: 21864"] I remember bringing the crankshaft of my rm125a (76) to the local shop to get rebuilt when I was 14. I watched the wrenches at my local shop, one of who was Marty Moates back up tech and I said that I wanted to be a m/c mechanic. The ALL laughed and said get a real job so you can pay someone to work on your bikes. I became interested in machining because I got to do more than replace parts. I could potentially make everything I needed, or wanted. All those techs at the time were in college to be something else. Wrenching has always been #2 to machining for me. Putting stuff together or being a line tech wasn't enough for me. If you can rebuild the spindle on a 55hp Mori Seiki lathe or generate CNC code for your own 3D parts you might find that wrenching on bikes is like desert after a great meal. Unfortunately it all becomes esoteric at some point, how many bikes you have built, how many parts of yours are on record bikes, how many titles you have, or how popular you are. I have been doing this for just over 20 years now and my parts have been involved in more than one world record of many different m/c racing venues. I really do it because I like to make parts. Wrenching is really easy. Tuning and building a better bike is a lot more sophistcated than bolting some xyz stuff together. My best friends on this career path have always been curiosity, enthusiasm, and professional integrity. Tell people what you know, not right and wrong but your experience, and never BS them. Building relationships with customers takes integrity. I learned most of my shop habits working a second job at an independent shop for a maniacal racer who could build anything out of a box of bits with no manual. He paid me in pizza to clean bikes and change tires. Wrenching is easy, attention to detail requires all of my attention. There are techs in SF that work on commision in major dealerships and make six figures. I know two of them. They bust their butts for it though. I was making 4$ an hour as a service manager though when I first started out. I have never been so deluded to think that I do this for the money though. There is a vacuum for good techs. I always thought that school was too slow, geared for the lowest common denominator. My first teacher in building stuff a maintenance mechanic who told me "behind every great mechanic is a pile of blown up motors". Start blowing stuff up, and don't feel bad about it. Experiment and research your failures turning them into learning experiences. Refine your goals with each project as it progresses. Have fun and build stuff, then there is no one to blame when it doesn't end up quite as you expected. [/QUOTE]
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