New Motorcycle shop, dealership, and community hub at 1509 Lake Wheeler Rd Raleigh, NC.
Post from Instagram:
artmotogarage Introducing: The Art Moto Garage
Rising from the legacy of Barnetts Suzuki, The Art Moto Garage will be a new kind of motorcycle dealership—where Triumphs and Ducatis share the floor with art, ideas, and community. For over 30 years, Mike built this address into a home for riders. Our mission is to honor that legacy and evolve it into a space where bikes are the beginning of the story, not the end of it.
This is one stop on a much longer journey: a dealership, café, and cultural hub where rides start, friendships form, and creativity lives in the open. Good things are coming in 2026.
In the meantime, we’re still open while the future takes shape—wrenching, dreaming, and welcoming you in.
Cool looking space, definitely an upgrade from the current spot. Nice connectivity location too, between the farmers market and Dix Park entrance, plus near Trophy on Maywood.
I’m not a bikerider, but am friends with the guy putting this together. Should be a really unique space. He’s also behind the annual Art Moto street festival that started in 2024.
I like this concept a LOT. I took my bike there for inspection a couple of times and had to stop in for a few items here and there and they were always super helpful and friendly. I’m excited for this new chapter and congrats to them!
PLEASE tell him to keep the parts counter, I can’t tell you how many times they saved my weekend after I broke something wrenching the night before. Also, without the parts counter I fear they face a similar struggle Devole Moto on Glenwood faced, only so many people will visit just for a coffee or IPA. Luckily this will be a Triumph and Ducati dealer so people will be in there kicking tires, which helps. Either way I’m very excited about this, we actually went Saturday to Barnett’s closing day to see if I could find any garage swag or gear, but sadly mostly everything motocross was from the late 80s and early 90s.
I really like the guys at Art Moto and have high hopes for this project, I’m sure I’ve met your friend. I was asked by the Art Moto team to display my bike at the most recent event at Ray Price, it was a really fun event.
CRF? That’s super clean. Glad Raleigh is getting a Triumph dealer again, as I believe the nearest authorized dealers are in Fayetteville and Greensboro since Ray Price no longer supports the brand. I almost bought a Trident 660 a few years back actually but got a Honda CBR instead, been toying with getting something else recently though
CR125 from 02, it’s my race bike from Highschool. They wanted to display it since I’ve modernized it with a Frankenstein of parts.
Ducati and Triumph both have invested heavily in the moto sector lately with a full lineup, race teams, etc. So assumingely they would carry at least one or two of their off-road bikes
