Twenty-four years on the workbench.
In 2001, two lead engineers and a group of professional enthusiasts opened a small workshop on the south coast of Devon — no signboards, no press releases. Just workbenches, a test stand, and a quiet belief.
The early work was motorcycles: British, Japanese, any make. Repairing, retrofitting, upgrading. Reliability-oriented tuning typical for the period. But from the very first day, Jacobs & Fieldman carried a signature — cast forged pistons, made in-house.
By the mid-2000s it was clear: conventional cast pistons were the weak point in any tuning programme. The workshop had already solved that problem — a denser, directionally oriented grain structure, no micro-porosity, significantly higher resistance to thermal fatigue.
No loans, no outside investors. Only engineering and reinvestment of profits into equipment. The engineers took orders, stood at the machines, and drove out to see customers themselves. No scandals, no recalls.
