About
It started with a frustration.
I couldn't get what I wanted done to my own bike. Not the parts. Not the work. Not a straight answer about what would actually fit. If you rode a Harley in this region and wanted anything past a service interval, you were on your own.
Where it started
We started from nothing.
First we stripped bikes down. Then we built them from scratch. Then we went into the engines — rebuilds, big-bore, performance work — because that's where the questions got hard and nobody had answers worth trusting. Everything we know, we learned the expensive way. Trial and error, on our own bikes. Not show bikes. The ones we ride to work. If a build can't survive a Dubai summer commute, it doesn't leave the shop.
The scene
France, 2024.
I went to France and saw clubstyle in the flesh. Bikes built with intent — a scene with its own language, its own rules. I came back looking for it here, found it in Ras Al Khaimah, real and off-screen. But nobody was doing it in Dubai. So I started it. Alone. Today the clubstyle scene that started with one bike is the most active Harley community in the region.
Why we built it
Which is why this exists.
forty5° is the same frustration, solved for everyone else. Everything we had to learn the hard way — what fits, what fails, what the manual actually says, who to trust with the work — built into something you carry in your pocket. Your bike's history in one place. Answers grounded in the service manual, not a forum thread from 2011. The workshop a tap away instead of a phone call and a guess.
Built by riders who wrench on their own bikes. For riders who do the same.
No compromise. No guesses.
Visit the workshop
Forty5° is the platform the workshops run on. To reach a specific workshop — hours, address, a booking — head to its own site.
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