(414) 279-5510 Call Motorcycle & Bike Towing · Shorewood, Milwaukee County
From Oakland Avenue business district, Atwater, and Lake Bluff to the WIS-32 (Lake Drive) shoulder, one call rolls a flatbed with a wheel chock and soft straps to your bike. It rides upright, arrives exactly as it left, and you hear the flat price before we load — typically about 26 minutes out in Shorewood.
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The run to Shorewood is one we drive daily — about 9 road miles from our South Side yard. Describe the bike on the call and the flatbed leaves with the right chock and straps aboard.
MKE Towing & Recovery — open 24/7. MKE Towing & Recovery tows Shorewood motorcycles one way only: flatbed, wheel chock, soft straps, tied down at three to four points — no hook-and-chain, no wheel-lift, no scratches added. We dispatch 24/7 across Shorewood and Milwaukee County with a ~26-minute typical arrival, staged about 9 road miles out, quick to WIS-32 (Lake Drive), WIS-190 (Capitol Drive), and I-43 (just west, across the Milwaukee River). Your exact price — set by bike type and the measured route — is online in about 60 seconds, quoted before we load. Call (414) 279-5510.
Instant quote — free, no phone call needed
The same pricing engine our dispatchers use, self-serve: Shorewood pickup, drop-off, your bike's make and type (it drives the tie-down equipment), and its condition — an exact number in about 60 seconds, plus a quote reference (Q-XXXXXXXX) that holds your place with dispatch. Honest caveat: online pricing covers our ~30-mile core area; beyond it, call and a dispatcher prices it personally.
The question every rider asks
A motorcycle has nothing to lean on but the tie-down. We load yours on a flatbed, lock the front wheel in a wheel chock, and run soft straps around the bars or frame — never over plastics, levers, or with a hook-and-chain. The bike rides upright and arrives exactly as it left.
Local to Shorewood
Anyone can claim coverage — here's the substance: the Shorewood corridors we actually run, what the riding season does to the pavement, and what the clock really looks like when you call.
Picture a weekday around 5 PM: the Capitol Drive and Locust/North Avenue interchanges — the feeds toward Shorewood off I-43, which runs just west across the Milwaukee River (the interchanges themselves sit on the Milwaukee side of the line) — are at their peak backups, and they hold that way through 6, just as they did from 7 to 9 that morning. On the surface grid, Oakland Avenue, Capitol Drive (WIS-190) and Lake Drive (WIS-32) do the heavy lifting; the signalized choke points all sit on Capitol Drive at Wilson, Oakland, Downer, Lake and Maryland, while Edgewood Avenue's crossings at Lake and Oakland are uncontrolled. Extra volume gathers around the Oakland Ave business district and, on warm-weather weekends, Atwater Park & Beach.
Riders here watch the WIS-32 (Lake Drive) expansion joints, the sand that collects on ramp aprons, and left-turning traffic on the surface streets. When it goes wrong anyway, the recovery is calm: chock, soft straps, flat and upright to the shop.
~9 road miles from our South Side yard, with coverage across Milwaukee & Waukesha counties. Live ETA confirmed on the call.
Bought a bike from a Milwaukee County dealer or a private seller, or pulling one out of winter storage? We pick up anywhere in the area and load it on the flatbed with a chock and soft straps — schedule ahead or call when you're standing next to it.
A typical January stretch in Shorewood: snow bands rolling in off the water, fog thickening along the bluff, temperatures swinging sharply within a short distance of the shore. Lake Michigan forms the village's eastern border and strongly moderates the humid continental pattern — winters stay cold and snowy, summers warm. Lake Drive and the bluff streets can ice and fog over quickly when conditions push in off the water.
Shorewood follows the regional rhythm — first rides in early April, last rides around mid-November, and the heavy miles between May and October. Winter doesn't stop the flatbed: storage pickups in the fall and spring delivery runs keep the motorcycle side moving until riding weather returns.
Milwaukee is where Harley-Davidson started and where it stays — headquarters on Juneau Avenue, museum on Canal Street — and that heritage shapes how much two-wheel traffic these roads carry. If a ride out of Shorewood ends early — the 115-mile Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive (Elkhart Lake to Whitewater Lake); Holy Hill and the Washington County back roads; Lake Drive and the Lake Michigan shoreline — call it in. The dispatcher confirms coverage for where you're standing and reads you a live ETA.
The riding calendar runs hard here: Thursday Bike Nights at the Harley-Davidson Museum all summer, and Mama Tried — the country’s biggest winter motorcycle show — every February at the Eagles Ballroom.
Covering Shorewood ZIP codes: 53211
What we tow in Shorewood
A sportbike and a trike have different worries. Pick yours and we’ll show how we load and secure it — the same call the dispatcher makes so the right chock and straps roll to Shorewood ready.
Fairings and rear-sets leave little to grab, so we chock the front wheel and run soft straps to the triple-tree and frame — never over bodywork, levers, or controls. It rides upright and arrives unmarked.
Send the right gear — call nowIs this you right now?
Won’t start or a flat on WIS-32 (Lake Drive) or WIS-190 (Capitol Drive) or a Shorewood surface street. We get you and the bike off the road fast.
A drop near Oakland Avenue business district, Atwater, and Lake Bluff hurts enough already. We pick the bike up carefully and it collects nothing new on the way in.
Project bike, seized engine, dead battery, or a lost key. We winch or ramp it on — it doesn’t need to run.
Bought a bike near Oakland Avenue business district, Atwater, and Lake Bluff? We collect it from the dealer or the seller’s driveway and deliver it home chocked and soft-strapped.
First cold week or first warm one, the storage shuttle runs — we move Shorewood bikes in and out of winter storage all season.
Wider and heavier with two wheels on one end — we load and secure three-wheelers differently, but they ride flat safe.
What it costs
A Shorewood bike tow is a hook-up fee plus measured loaded miles, led by your bike's type — cruiser, sport, touring, trike, or dirt — because tie-down geometry and equipment differ by type. Condition add-ons (won't roll, locked steering) and time of day round it out. Hook-up is a flat $125 for standard bikes ($140 heavy customs), any hour, plus $4 per loaded mile — the calculator up this page turns that into your exact number in about 60 seconds.
Straight from the same pricing engine our dispatchers use — priced by your actual bike and route, never a different number at drop-off.
See my price nowGetting a bike towed in Shorewood
Describe the bike and the spot — the WIS-32 (Lake Drive) shoulder, a driveway, a parking structure — and dispatch preps the chock and straps to match.
We quote a flat price before we load and give you a real arrival window for your exact Shorewood spot. No surprises at drop-off.
About 26 minutes later, on a typical Shorewood run, the flatbed pulls up — with a heads-up call from the driver first.
Chock in, soft straps on, secured upright — then dropped where you choose: shop, dealer, or home. Pay on the spot; receipt for your records.
Why Shorewood riders call MKE
A real ETA from the closest flatbed — answered live, any day, no call-center.
Flatbed, wheel chock, soft straps — every bike, every time. No hook-and-chain, no exceptions.
A flat hook-up plus per-loaded-mile, quoted before we touch the bike. The number you hear is what you pay.
Hundreds of bikes hauled across 2 SE Wisconsin counties. Licensed & Insured in Wisconsin.
Shorewood motorcycle towing questions
Usually about 26 minutes from our South Side base ~9 miles south. We run dedicated bike-towing gear across the village — the Lake Drive (WIS-32) lakefront run, the Oak Leaf Trail along the Milwaukee River, and the Oakland Avenue and Capitol Drive corridors. A live dispatcher gives you a real ETA 24/7. Call (414) 279-5510.
Motorcycle towing is priced by bike type plus a per-loaded-mile rate — a cruiser, sport bike, and trike each load differently — and the 60-second calculator on this page shows your exact haul price before we roll. We move it damage-free to your shop, the dealer, or home. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes — that's the whole point. We use soft straps and a wheel chock or a flatbed with a front-wheel cradle, never a kickstand drag or a hook on the frame. Sport bikes, cruisers, baggers — they ride secured and upright to your shop, the dealer, or home. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes. Trikes, scooters, choppers, baggers and customs all have their own tie-down points, and we bring the right straps and a flatbed when a bike can't roll. Custom bikes over 1,000 lbs go straight to a flatbed. Tell dispatch what you ride so the right gear shows up. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes — a breakdown along North Lake Drive (WIS-32) or the Oak Leaf Trail run by the Milwaukee River is familiar territory. We load the bike upright and run it home or to your shop. Get to a safe spot off the roadway, and call (414) 279-5510 with your cross-streets.
Answers reviewed July 2026 — pricing model, hours and ETAs are checked quarterly.
The calculator up this page prices your Shorewood bike tow free in about 60 seconds — by make, type, and measured route — and its Q-XXXXXXXX reference picks the call up right where you left off.
Nearby
Call and a Milwaukee dispatcher answers live, 24/7. The flatbed that rolls carries a wheel chock and soft straps, the typical Shorewood arrival is about 26 minutes, and the flat price comes before the load. The bike arrives exactly as it left.