Some established custom shops are so consistent, you immediately know that anything they build is going to be good. But the scene is rife with newcomers too. And we love it when a new shop hits it out the park on their first try.
The three guys behind ASH Motorcycles have a wealth of experience between them, but they’ve only been operating as a unit since last year. This Triumph Thruxton-based street tracker is their debut, and it’s an absolute showstopper.

Based in Dorset, England, the team is made up of Tim Abbey, Jez Speed and Chris Hill. (Add the first letters of their surnames together, et voila.)
Tim was a professional touring musician based in London?until the pandemic wrecked his industry. So he spent time working with his friends at the UK shops Untitled Motorcycles and Bolt London, sparking a desire to build his own custom motorcycles. Chris is a retired aircraft engineer, with a workshop at the Old Yarn Mills in Sherborne that’s stacked with equipment.
Jez is into restorations, is friends with Tim, and has a workshop next to Chris’. All three love motorcycles?so once Jez had made the intro, things started snowballing.
Their first meeting resulted in Tim learning how to TIG weld, and pretty soon he was being schooled in machining and fabrication. So he offered up his clean Triumph Thruxton 900 as the donor for ASH Motorcycles’ first build.

?It’s a well-known, done-to-death motorbike on the custom scene,? says Tim. ?The c...