Motorcycle workshop · Milan · Via Gardone 22
The bikes in here
are patients.
Servicing of any make and any era, classic restorations, one-off customs and selected used bikes.
Google reviews
The people who have been here wrote how it went
“The workshop itself and surroundings are super interesting and worth to see, the real man's cave.”Google review
A photograph of every part
It comes up again and again in the reviews: photographs of every component replaced, sent to the owner while the job is under way, with the bolts marked and torqued.
What nobody else had fixed
Several customers arrive here after going elsewhere first: the fault nobody could find gets found, and the bike goes back on the road.
English is spoken
Bikes and owners come from outside Italy — from Germany, from Ireland. One of them, after the service, rode home.
What we do
An engine is a body. You open it, you read it, you put it back together.
Six points on the diagram and six cards with the same number: open a point and you find the work that goes with it. The last three are not inside the engine, but they stop a bike just the same.
Illustration of a generic engine — not a photograph of a job
Cylinder head
Valves, guides, seats, deck flatness. The top end is where a well-kept bike separates itself from a neglected one.
Valve train
Camshafts, tappets, chain or belt, clearance. It is the noise you hear from cold that almost nobody goes looking for.
Piston and rod
Cylinder, rings, gudgeon pin, bore clearance. When an engine burns oil or smokes, the answer is almost always in here.
Crankcase
Crankshaft, main bearings, seals, lubrication. An engine opened on the bench is the work this shop likes best.
Clutch
Plates, springs, basket, actuation and bleeding. A lever that stops being an excuse to stay home.
Gearbox
Shafts, gears, selector forks. Clean shifts, and second gear that stops jumping out.
Fuelling and carburation
Carbs stripped, cleaned and balanced; injection diagnosed. A steady idle and pickup that does not stumble.
Brakes and chassis
Braking system, forks, shocks, steering head bearings, geometry. On a classic this is usually the part still stuck in the Seventies.
Electrics
Charging, ignition, looms rebuilt where age has cooked them. On old bikes it is almost always the wiring, not the engine.
Archive · 19 builds
Nineteen bikes, one by one
Nine restorations and ten custom builds. Every record is made of the workshop's own photographs, and the captions say only what the photographs show.
Restorations onlyCustom builds only
BMW R90 S
Shaded Arancio Daytona, standard cockpit fairing, “BMW R 90 S” and “900cc” badges on the side panels.
9 photographs →
Honda 500 Four
Seventies inline four, gold tank with a black band and white pinstripe, “500 Four” badge on the side panels.
7 photographs →
Honda 750 Four
Candy red with gold pinstriping, four headers and four chrome silencers, chrome mudguards and spoked rims.
10 photographs →
Honda Gold Wing
Metallic bordeaux with gold pinstriping and lettering, “Gold Wing” on the side panel.
6 photographs →
Moto Guzzi Stornello 125
Red frame and white tank with the “stornello 125” emblem, polished engine and casings, chrome exhaust…
7 photographs →
Moto Guzzi Airone 250
Horizontal single, external flywheel, foot gearchange: the Guzzi as it was built in the post-war years.
6 photographs →
Kawasaki GPz 1100
Red with the white and black stripe, air-cooled inline four, cockpit fairing with rectangular headlight.
8 photographs →
Kawasaki GPZ 900
Red and grey, full fairing with the rectangular headlamp, black engine, alloy rims.
5 photographs →
Kawasaki Z1000J
Dark blue with the twin light blue pinstripe on tank and side panels, air-cooled inline four…
5 photographs →
BMW R65 LS
Mirror-polished aluminium tank with a petrol-blue panel and the BMW roundel, brown seat with diamond quilting…
8 photographs →
BMW R nineT
Gloss black with the white panel on the tank, gold-anodised fork stanchions, headlight with yellow lens…
8 photographs →
Ducati Hypermotard 1100
Ducati red over a trellis frame, ten-spoke rims in bronze, gold fork stanchions, high-level carbon silencers.
6 photographs →
Harley-Davidson 1450 Heritage Springer
Bobber on a Softail base: matt black with red flames on tank and mudguards, single tuck-and-roll seat…
12 photographs →
Harley-Davidson 883 Iron
Sportster in metallic blue with retro pinstriped “AMF Harley-Davidson” graphics, short matt black fairing…
9 photographs →
Honda CRF 450 E
From motocross to supermotard: gold spoked rims with road tyres, oversized front disc with carrier bell…
9 photographs →
Honda SLR 650 Vigor
Military green scrambler with the Honda graphics in red and yellow bands, number boards carrying the 77…
12 photographs →
Kawasaki W800
Sage green with the white and anthracite arrow stripe, brown seat with diamond quilting, gaiters on the fork…
7 photographs →
Yamaha SR 500
Brat build on a single-cylinder base: petrol-blue tank with an orange and white stripe, brown quilted seat…
8 photographs →
Yamaha WR 400
Street tracker: brushed aluminium fairing and tank with yellow pinstripe, flat seat, gold upside-down fork…
9 photographs →Selected used bikes
The bikes he sells have been on his bench first
This is not a forecourt, it is a choice. The used bikes that leave this place have been checked in the same workshop that repairs them, and handed over the way you hand over a bike you care about — one review describes an Aprilia that arrived with its stands and a mat of its own.
How the used bikes work
The workshop
A doctor does not choose his patients
Bikes of any era and any make come through this door, whatever they are used for. A custom build is done only if it does not betray the original design: a bike is meant to be ridden, not only looked at.
In 2016 a magazine came to see how the work is done here and wrote about it: the account of an engine opened on the bench, with their photographs, is still online. English is spoken.
Press
Thirty years of magazines
Since 1995, 11 magazines have put this workshop on their pages: 135 printed pages, kept in the workshop's own archive. Three of them are foreign: one French, one British and one Finnish.
Franceno. 112 · July–August 20215 pages- 13½ Magazineno. 14 · 20218 pages
October 202019 pages
20202 pages- Moto StoricheDecember–January 2019February–March 2018November–December 2010Three issues between 2010 and 2019: no other title followed this workshop for so long.37 pages
- Extraurban 2Supplement to PanoramaEICMA 2017EICMA 201514 pages
- FerroOctober 20175 pages
- Moto1Finlandno. 5 · 20177 pages
- BuiltUnited Kingdomno. 166 pages
March 2014February 199525 pages
September 20117 pages
And on the web
Address
Bring it here
The fastest way is the phone — English is spoken. On WhatsApp you can send photos of the bike, which usually say more than a description.
The workshop is on the ground floor, inside Motosplash: that is the sign you see from the street.
- Via Gardone 22, 20139 MilanGround floor · Motosplash
- +39 340 318 4417
- WhatsApp +39 340 318 4417
- info@serraodaquino.com
Opening hours
| Monday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Tuesday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 19:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |