I can across what seems to be the motorcycle equivalent of Turo for cars.
Cool for the renter, but I don’t know if I would rent out a bike to a stranger.
Rent privately owned motorcycles
Not intended as Two wheeled paddle sports, just thought it might be of interest and maybe lead to some interesting discussion as people look at what’s available in their area.
I see myself wiping out and some biker guy beating me up. All for under $100.
"Drop" off. Uh oh.
Yeah, I'd say that has "expensive problems" written all over it.
OH GOD NO
Seems to be a wide range of prices:
I thought it was odd I could rent a Civic Type R on Turo. The owner was all low key about the previous rental guy curbing one of the rims. It would make me nuts to rent out my car to hooligans like me.
Interesting. I thought you were going to bring up twistedroad.com. I listened to a podcast on NOCO MOTO where they interviewed someone from there and it actually sounded like a great idea. You are vetted when you turn in your request to join and you must have a motorcycle license and they want you to have experience with the type of bike you are renting, like you won't get approved for a sport bike if all your experience is on a cruiser type of thing. Also that the renter can refuse to rent to you right up to the point of departure. I didn't realize there was more bike rental options out there.
Bumping this old thread but it sounds like nobody has actually tried to do this on here. I tried to book an old GS500 on a trip to Denver for a long weekend a couple of years ago. $50 a day or whatever it was. Then you go to actually rent it and the insurance and fees nearly quadrupled the actual cost of the rental. If I wanted to spend $700 to ride an old Suzuki for 4 days, I'd just buy an old Suzuki and try to sell it when I leave.
Has anybody tried this in the last year or so if it has gotten any cheaper?
In reply to crankwalk (Forum Supporter) :
I tired, price doubled by the time I got all the fees and insurance.
Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to crankwalk (Forum Supporter) :
I tired, price doubled by the time I got all the fees and insurance.
Yeah I don't get why they aren't transparent with it. If they were I might have still considered it maybe ...but just on principal slipping in that the cost is 2-3-4 times what is advertised is ridiculous.
In reply to crankwalk (Forum Supporter) :
Depending on the car turo is also bad about that. I have tried twisted road also and same story.
I think this is a good idea for trying a bike you may be considering for a purchase but a 20 minute test ride won't tell you what you need to know.
But, Mr Twistedroad, how about you do something about the hidden fees?
I agree with Ddavid and in the case of shopping used bikes, the ability to spend a day on a specific model would be great for telling if the ergonomics, handling and power fit your using style before going to look at a bunch of used bikes where you might get only get to take it up and down the street.
Besides the hidden fees, some additional search options (by make, model, etc) could also be helpful. Rather than having to plug in different cities to search, it would be nice to plug in my location and a model and see how far away the nearest one is from me.
I agree, but I'd never rent out my motorcycle to some random person. The chances of them getting injured or damaging it are far higher than I'm willing to accept
This just seems like a bad idea on both sides of the dollar.
For a while my wife and I had a stable of five bikes, and we had a few listed on twisted road and riders share. Renting out two or three bikes a couple times a season was enough to pay taxes/tags/insurance/minimal maintenance on the fleet, but with the extra hassle of being there at specific times to send them out and get them back. Across a couple dozen rentals we only ever had one incident, which was a lost phone mount on the highway.
Have since sold a couple bikes and so we've gotten less into bothering to rent the rest of the bikes, preferring to ride them.
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