By Vernon Robison
Moapa Valley Progress
Ernie and Sharon Luke of Mesquite have opened a new shop to specialize in service for street motorcycles. Photo by Vernon Robison/Moapa Valley Progress.
There is now a local shop to serve bikers in the community. Mesquite Motorsports has been open at 140 Riverside Road Ste. C in Mesquite for about a month and a half now. The new shop specializes in everything streetbike.
Shop owners Ernie and Sharon Luke are, themselves, street motorcycle enthusiasts and their shop shows it.
“I’ve always just loved Harleys,” said Sharon smiling.
She points to a photograph on the wall of the reception area. It shows her, and her daughter, seated on a beautiful Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Ernie and Sharon moved to the Mesquite area several years ago. Before that they had been running a cattle ranch in New Mexico. They had planned on coming in off the range and settling in Mesquite. Ernie had planned on getting a job in town to pay the couple’s expenses. But the couple moved in at just about the time when the economy fell apart and they suddenly faced a scarcity of jobs. But that hasn’t stopped them.
“I’ve always felt like the best job you can have is the one that you make for yourself,” Ernie said.
He explained that he began looking for a business to start up in the area. He noticed that he had neighbors with street bikes, dirt bikes and even 4-wheelers who had very few options on where to go for servicing the vehicles.
“We saw a need in the community,” Ernie said. “After all there are three street bike clubs in town here. And people are having to travel to service their bikes.”
Mesquite Motorsports has two technicians on staff at the shop. Both Tony Cantrell and Rob Howells are graduates of the Motorcycle Mechanic Institute and are certified Harley Davidson technicians. Cantrell even took specialty courses in vintage model Harleys.
Customizing road bikes and restoring vintage model bikes is a particular talent of the Mesquite Motorsports team, Ernie said.
In addition, the shop has a dirt bike/ATV specialist in Colby Bute. All of the staff is well versed in off-road vehicles, chinese scooters, outboard engines, snowmobiles and jet skis.
The shop offers regular oil changes, lubrications and general maintenance specials. Tire mounting and balancing services are also offered for road bikes as well as off-road vehicles.
Mesquite Motorsports can also be a source of parts for those who prefer to do their maintenance and repairs at home. Parts sales are guaranteed within three business days in most cases and orders can be drop shipped directly to the customer’s address.
“We have established relations with two Harley Davidson dealers to guarantee that we can have access to genuine Harley Davidson parts,” Ernie said.
The shop also has a website where customers will soon be able to enter orders that are linked directly to Western Power Sports and Tucker Rocky for parts orders. This online order entry capability is expected to become active by the middle of this month, Ernie said.
“This will be a convenience for residents of Moapa, Overton, Logandale and even Beaver Dam, Arizona,” said Luke. “Our customers won’t have to travel to Mesquite to get those orders in.”
Telephone orders will continue to be taken for S&S Performance Parts, Custom Chrome, Harley Davidson and V-Twin, he said.
The shop is eager to be of service to the Virgin Valley and Moapa Valley communities.
“We even offer an emergency roadside service,” said Ernie Luke. “If you break down out there somewhere, give us a call and we can come and get you; and help get things running again.”
Mesquite Motorsports is located at 140 Riverside Road, Suite C in Mesquite; right next to Sherwin Williams Paint. Their hours are Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm and Saturday 9am – 4pm. The shop can be reached by calling 702-613-4545.
