Plate 01 General
Inked Moto Garage is a working motorcycle shop on Hixson Pike. Service, tires, diagnostics, fabrication and custom build work, done in a bay you can walk into and ask questions in.
Hours move with the season and with what is on the lift. Call or text before you ride over and somebody will tell you straight whether today works.
Oil and filter, valve clearance, chain and sprockets, brakes and fluid, plugs, filters, cables, fork oil. The unglamorous list that decides whether a bike is still fun to own in three years. We will tell you what is due now and what can wait until fall.
Also covers: fluid flush, carburetor clean and sync, battery and charging check
The bike that starts cold and dies hot. The one that runs fine until it does not. We chase the actual fault rather than replacing parts in order until the symptom stops, and we tell you what we found before we go further.
Electrical, fuel delivery, charging, no-start
Mount, balance, valve stems, and an honest read on what is left. Rubber ages out even when the tread looks fine, so we will show you the date code and let you decide with the same information we have.
Mount and balance, bearings, alignment check
Bracket work, mounts, exhaust routing, seat and subframe changes, the parts that do not exist for your bike because nobody sells them. If it needs to be made rather than ordered, that conversation starts in the bay with the bike in front of us.
One-off brackets, mounts, exhaust, subframe and seat work
Older and orphaned bikes are our normal. We will hunt the number, tell you honestly if the part has gone extinct, and talk through the alternative rather than leaving your bike on a stand for two months.
OEM, aftermarket, and the used-with-a-story option
Storage in the fall, wake-up in the spring. Fuel stabiliser, battery tender plan, tire pressure, and a look at anything you noticed last season and then forgot about.
Layup and wake-up
Tick what the bike is actually doing. The panel beside this builds a plain work order you can send us, so the first conversation starts with information instead of guessing.
Nothing ticked yet. Pick anything on the left and it lands here.
Inked Moto Garage is run by Morgan Perez and Mark Perez out of Suite 2 at 6425 Hixson Pike. It is a small shop, which is the whole point: the person who looks at your bike is the person you talk to about it.
Hixson riders mostly do not need a service department. They need somebody who will put the bike on the lift, find the actual problem, and say what it will take. Bikes that are twenty years old are welcome here. So are the ones that came off a trailer in pieces with a plan attached.
In May 2026 the shop hosted a motorcycle benefit event. That is the version of a local shop worth having: one that shows up for the riding community it sells work to, not just on the days the register is open.
The name is the shop's, not a service list. We do not tattoo. We work on motorcycles.
A chain run too tight eats output shaft bearings, and one run too loose eats sprockets and sometimes a case. It takes about five minutes to check and it is the single cheapest thing you can do for a chain-drive bike.
There is a four digit date code stamped on the sidewall: week, then year. Tread depth is only half the story. Rubber that has been sitting for years goes hard and stops gripping long before it looks worn.
Most spring no-start calls are fuel that sat all winter and turned into varnish in the carburetor or injectors. Stabiliser in the fall costs a few dollars. Pulling and cleaning a fuel system in April does not.
Ask. The honest answer depends on the specific bike and what it needs, not on the badge on the tank. Call with the year and model and you will get a straight yes or no rather than a scheduled appointment that turns into a no.
No. The name is the shop's name. Inked Moto Garage works on motorcycles.
Usually. Bring them before the bike goes on the lift rather than halfway through, and know that we will say something if a part is not going to do what you are hoping it will do.
Yes. Bikes arrive on trailers and in the back of trucks all the time. Call first so somebody is there with a hand and a spot to put it.
Yes. You get a look at what we found and what it takes to fix it before the work happens. Nobody enjoys the phone call that starts with a number they did not agree to.