6425 Hixson Pike, Suite 2
The bay is open.
Service, tires, diagnostics, fabrication and custom work on Hixson Pike. Roll it in, tell us what it is doing, and get a straight answer about what it takes.
Hixson, Tennessee
Service and maintenance
Oil and filter, valve clearance, chain and sprockets, brake fluid and pads, plugs, filters, cables, fork oil. The list nobody photographs and everybody needs. You will hear what is due now and what can sit until the weather turns, in that order.
Fluids / valves / chain and sprockets / brakesDiagnostics
The bike that fires cold and dies hot. The one that was fine last Sunday. Chasing an intermittent fault takes patience and a meter, not a parts cannon, and you get told what we actually found before anything else gets ordered.
Electrical / fuel / charging / no-start
Tires and wheels
Mount, balance, valve stems, bearings. Rubber ages out on the shelf, so we will show you the date code stamped in the sidewall and let you make the call with the same information we have.
Mount and balance / bearings / date codesCustom builds and fabrication
Brackets, mounts, exhaust routing, subframe and seat changes, and the piece that does not exist for your bike because nobody makes it any more. If it has to be made rather than ordered, that conversation happens in the bay with the bike between us.
One-off brackets / mounts / exhaust / seat and subframe
Parts hunting
Old and orphaned bikes are normal here. We will chase the number, tell you plainly when a part has gone extinct, and talk through what to do instead rather than leaving your bike parked on a stand for a season.
OEM / aftermarket / good usedHow a job moves through the bay.
You tell us what it is doing
Not what you think is broken, though guesses are welcome. The noise, when it happens, what changed, and what you have already tried. That five minute conversation saves more diagnostic time than any tool on the wall.
We find it, then we call
The bike gets looked at properly before anybody quotes anything. You hear what it actually is, what it takes, and what can honestly wait, and nothing past that point happens without you saying go.
You get told what we touched
What was replaced, what was adjusted, and what to keep an eye on next season. If we noticed something we did not fix, you hear about that too, because finding it in six months on the side of the road is worse.
Every bike here has three seasons.
A motorcycle in Tennessee gets ridden hard for part of the year and sits for the rest. Pick where you are and see what that actually means for the bike.
Getting it back on the road
Most first-warm-day no-start calls come from fuel that sat all winter. The rest come from a battery that quietly died in February. Neither is dramatic, and both are cheaper to sort in March than in the middle of a Saturday ride.
- Fuel system check, and a carburetor clean if it sat with untreated fuel
- Battery load test and charging system check
- Tire pressure, condition, and a look at the date codes
- Brake fluid, pad life, and any spongy feel from sitting
- Chain clean, lube, and slack set to spec
Check the tires before the first ride. Pressure drops over a cold winter and low pressure is the fastest way to ruin a good first day out.
Keeping it honest while you ride
Miles go on fast once the weather holds. The things that fail mid-season are almost always the things that were already telling you something in April and got ignored because the bike still started.
- Oil and filter on the interval your bike actually calls for
- Chain slack and lube, checked more often than feels necessary
- Brake pad thickness before a long trip, not after
- Any new noise, vibration or smell, looked at while it is still small
- Tire wear across the whole tread, not just the strip down the middle
Do not ride out a noise. A sound that is new this week is the cheapest version of that repair you will ever be offered.
Putting it away properly
How a bike is stored decides how expensive spring is. Twenty minutes in the fall covers most of it, and the parts that need a shop are worth doing before the bike sits rather than after it has already gummed up.
- Fuel stabiliser added and the engine run long enough to move it through
- Fresh oil in, so the old acidic oil is not sitting in the cases for months
- Battery on a tender, or out of the bike and on a shelf
- Tires up to pressure and the bike off the ground if you can manage it
- Anything you noticed all season written down before you forget it
Deal with the fuel. Varnished carburetors and clogged injectors are the single most common reason a bike does not start in April.
Two people, one lift, no service department.
Inked Moto Garage is run by Morgan Perez and Mark Perez out of 6425 Hixson Pike. Small on purpose. The person who looks at the bike is the person you talk to about it.
Hixson riders do not need a dealership counter and a two week wait for a diagnosis. They need somebody who will get the bike on the lift, find the real fault, and be straight about what it takes to fix. Twenty year old bikes are welcome. So are the ones that showed up on a trailer with a plan and a box of parts.
In May 2026 the shop hosted a motorcycle benefit event. That is worth saying out loud, because it is the difference between a shop that sells to riders and a shop that is part of the riding community it sits in.
One thing the name does not mean: we do not tattoo. Inked Moto Garage works on motorcycles.
A shop is only as good as the ride home.
Everything in the bay is aimed at one thing: you leave, you ride, and you do not think about the bike again until the next service is genuinely due. That is the whole job.
Scroll the shop.
Headlight, handlebars, bad light Somebody is wearing these tomorrow Everything where it lives
Ride it over. Call first if you can.
Hours move with the season and with what is on the lift, so a call or a text before you set off saves you the trip. Send the year, the model, and what it is doing, and somebody will tell you straight whether today works.
Hixson, Chattanooga, Soddy-Daisy and the roads out that way.