Marston Garage takes two motorcycles a year to the studs and builds them back the way they left the factory — only better, because the bad ideas of the era are corrected and the good ones are honored.
Every motorcycle that leaves this floor goes through the same five phases in the same order. No compression of the schedule. No exceptions on parts.
The motorcycle is photographed, catalogued, and broken down to roughly nine hundred individual parts. Each is bagged and tagged.
Frame straightened on the jig, all welds inspected, swingarm bushings replaced, wheels relaced with stainless spokes.
Cases split. Cranks trued. Rods balanced. Pistons measured. Anything off-spec is replaced with new-old-stock or hand-machined.
Tank stripped to bare metal. Filler-free panel work. Two-pack base, original-formula pigments, hand-lined coachwork.
The engine is broken in over six hundred road miles before it leaves us. Final tune. Logbook. Keys handed over in person.
A restoration is not a job, it's a conversation between the bike and the person fixing it. When you do six at once the conversation breaks down. The pile of parts on the bench gets too big, the answers get rushed, and a small thing — a worn cam follower, a sloppy thread — gets waved through.
So we built the shop around two motorcycles. One on the engine bench, one on the chassis bench. That's the ceiling and it's not moving. The waiting list is roughly fourteen months at the moment, sometimes more for the rarer Italian machinery.
The work is slow because the work is right. If you want it faster, there are other shops; we'll happily recommend three of them.
We accept commissions through a written intake. Please describe the bike — year, model, where you found it, and what the body and engine look like to your eye. Photographs help.
We reply within five working days. If we can take the build, we'll invite you for a shop visit and a long lunch before any contract is signed.