About — IndoBikes
A workshop is a set of promises kept in metal.
IndoBikes is an independent motorcycle workshop in Indonesia. We build one machine at a time, for one rider, and we do not sell anything off the floor.
01 What we are
Not a showroom. A bench with a deadline.
There is no stock list here. No floor model, no seasonal colour, no finance desk. A build begins with a conversation about a road and ends with a machine that has to survive it.
That sounds romantic until the first measurement. Then it becomes arithmetic: rake, trail, weight, clearance, heat, vibration, service access. The romance is what remains after the arithmetic is correct.
Service, in detail ↗
02 How we work
Four commitments, in order.
Measure before drawing.
The donor is stripped and measured before a single part is ordered. A drawing made before the teardown is a wish.
One machine at a time.
The bench holds one build. When it is full, the answer is no — not a longer queue with someone else's hands on your engine.
One bench, four disciplines.
Frame, engine, bodywork and finish are resolved by the same hands, in the same order, so nothing is designed around a department boundary.
Ride before handover.
Every build is ridden before it is handed over. If something asks for attention at speed, it is not finished.
03 What we won't do
The lines we do not cross.
The workshop is small on purpose. The waiting list is the only marketing we have.
04 Commissions
The work is the introduction.
Read a build from the first measurement to the first ride, or see what a commission includes.
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