#Rider share professional#

I AM saying you better be damn sure you are VERY comfortable with them doing so. Now I'm not saying one should never let someone else ride, share, or borrow your bike. For a few hundred bucks in 'rental' revenue? Get the bike back with no second gear? Strip the farkles, part the bike on ebay. One tip-over on the ST, possibly $1000 of damage, or more. 'No worries mate, I'll treat her just like she was my own!' Then grrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnd CLUNK into first he goes as my brow furrows, instantly regretting turning over my custom machine to a stranger to 'borrow' for a few hundred dollars. I can hear a stranger jumping on my bike right now.

Unless other folks I trusted could vouch for the rental, I'd never rely on a service like this for a destination trip I'd default to a professional outfit because of the risk. So for me looking for a little saddle time locally, this might be an OK service to use as long as I was prepared to walk away if something didn't feel right. all the careful stuff before setting out at low speed around the block to check everything works. If they sound like someone who knows what they're talking about, I'd meet with them, carefully inspect, sit on the bike, start it, etc. I would treat any local private rental like a fly-and-drive purchase - start by talking with the owner and see how they communicate about bike condition and maintenance. Especially not one just getting off the ground with very few reviews! I'm a bit leery of the so-called sharing economy, though, and wouldn't jump on any private rental motorcycle hoping that positive reviews were an assurance of safety.

As I currently don't own a bike (trying to ease back in) it would help to have easy rentals from a source other than Eagle. Saw several bikes close enough to me worth checking out. I checked out the Riders Share web site and it looks interesting.

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