Motorcycle Rental in Los Angeles: Every Shop, Price, and Airport Pickup Option

Aug 4, 2026

Ten operators rent motorcycles in the Los Angeles metro area, and 424 motorcycles were available across all of them for August 2026 dates. Two of the shops you'll find when you search for a motorcycle rental in Los Angeles don't run their own booking at all, and list their fleets on the marketplaces instead. Daily rates start at $21 for a Honda ADV150 scooter on Riders Share and run to $435 for a street-legal enduro machine, with fixed rate shops falling between $50 and $331. Deposits range from none published at LAX Motorcycle Rental to $5,000 at EagleRider. Los Angeles is also the only major California market where every scooter available to rent sits on a single platform. All figures below were pulled from each operator's public website or booking system on August 4, 2026, for August 2026 availability.

Los Angeles motorcycle rental comparison chart

About this comparison

The information on this page was compiled from publicly available sources, including each operator's own website, published rate sheets, and booking systems, on August 4, 2026, for August 2026 availability. Sources are listed above.

Rental rates, inventory, deposits, mileage policies, gear, tours, and hours change frequently and vary by season, demand, bike model, and individual listing. Figures shown reflect what each operator published on the verification date and shouldn't be relied on as current pricing. Confirm all terms directly with the operator before booking.

Where a field reads "not listed," it means the operator didn't publish that information on its public website as of the verification date. It doesn't indicate that no policy exists.

This comparison is provided for informational purposes. Riders Share is not affiliated with and does not endorse Bartels' Harley-Davidson, Cali Thrill Slingshot Rentals, EagleRider, EagleShare, GP Moto Rentals, Hertz Ride, LAX Motorcycle Rental, Live 100 Moto, Melrose Moto, Moto For All, Moto Venice, Mti Moto, Phatcruzer, Rent A Ducati, Route 66 Riders, Southern California Motorcycle Rental, Top Off Rides, or Twisted Road. All company names, trademarks, and logos are the property of their respective owners and are used here for identification purposes only.

Operators who identify an inaccuracy in this comparison can contact us, and we'll review and correct the entry.

Where can I rent a motorcycle in Los Angeles?

Los Angeles supports three kinds of rental operation, and the third one is what separates this market from every other city on the West Coast.

Fixed fleet shops hold their own inventory and publish rate cards. EagleRider in Hawthorne, LAX Motorcycle Rental in Hawthorne, Moto Venice in Venice, and Moto For All in Hollywood all work this way. You know the price before you search, and the inventory is whatever the shop owns.

Peer-to-peer marketplaces list motorcycles from private owners, with each owner setting the rate, the mileage terms, and the gear. Riders Share carries 208 motorcycles, Twisted Road carries 121, and EagleShare carries 81. That accounts for 410 of the 424 motorcycles available across the metro.

The third group changes how you should read a search result. Several of the independent shops here don't run their own booking system. Melrose Moto lists six motorcycles, and every one of them books through Riders Share, with four also listed on Twisted Road. Moto For All states that its fleet is live on both platforms with instant booking. These are working service shops with mechanics and storefronts, and they reach renters through the marketplaces rather than through a counter of their own. The result shows up in the pricing. The cheapest Harley-Davidson rental in Los Angeles, a 2008 XL 1200N Nightster at $36 per day, belongs to Melrose Moto and is listed on Riders Share.

Riders Share holds the largest count in the market. Inventory spans 34 filterable brands, from Harley-Davidson, Indian, and BMW through Ducati, MV Agusta, Royal Enfield, Vespa, and Zero, so the platform covers categories the fixed fleet shops don't stock at all. Adventure bike rentals and scooters are two of them. Delivery is available on 108 of the 208 listings, which puts a bike at a hotel in Santa Monica or Silver Lake instead of sending a visitor to an industrial block near the airport.

If you're weighing pickup points across the basin, you can compare motorcycle rentals in Los Angeles from Glendale and Burbank down to Long Beach rather than working from a single counter.

Two further operators, Live 100 Moto near Torrance and Mti Moto, rent enduro and dirt machines rather than street motorcycles. They appear in the chart above because they compete for the same searches, and because several of their units are street legal.

Geography works against the visitor here more than it does in a compact market. Both fixed fleet shops closest to the airport sit in Hawthorne, and Burbank and Long Beach have no rental counter at all. That's why delivery carries more weight in this market than in any other California city.

Why Los Angeles rental listings are often out of date

Before comparing anything, a caution about what a search returns in this market. Several of the operator names that surface in directories, review sites, and aggregator pages for motorcycle rental in Los Angeles are either closed or route to a different company than the name suggests. That's the most common reason a rider calls a number and gets nowhere.

Hertz Ride is the clearest example. Its own US rentals page states that a strategic partnership between Hertz Ride and EagleRider means all motorcycle rentals in the United States are managed and operated by EagleRider, and its location list carries no US entries. Hertz Ride Los Angeles LAX still appears in local business directories and still ranks among the top results for motorcycle rental near LAX.

Bartels' Harley-Davidson publishes the same kind of arrangement. Its rental page is titled for EagleRider rentals and links directly into EagleRider's booking system. A rider comparing the Marina del Rey dealership against EagleRider is comparing one operator twice.

EagleShare adds a subtler version of the same problem. It's a marketplace operated by EagleRider Holdings, and a Los Angeles search there returns 117 vehicles, 36 of which are EagleRider listings. Ten of those attach to stations in Ontario, Lancaster, and Palm Springs, and Palm Springs sits about 110 miles east of downtown. That's a long ride to collect a rental.

Three more names in the results no longer lead anywhere useful. Route 66 Riders at 4161 Lincoln Boulevard in Marina del Rey still surfaces in directories, but no active business profile or bookable inventory surfaced for the company as of August 4, 2026. Two doors down at 4141 Lincoln, Bartels' now runs the EagleRider counter. Top Off Rides on Glendale Boulevard is listed as permanently closed, and it rented Polaris Slingshots rather than motorcycles. Rent A Ducati appears in Hollywood-area results, but its website returns an error page, its profile lists an intersection rather than a street address, and its most recent reviews are eight years old.

None of this is hidden. Each active company discloses it on its own website. It just doesn't survive the trip into third-party directory listings.

The same caution applies to comparison pages, and several operators in this market publish their own. Three questions separate a useful one from a stale one. Does it carry a verification date, so you know when someone actually checked? Does it name the specific pages the figures came from, rather than pointing at publicly available information in general? And does it apply the same fields to every operator, including the one that published it? A comparison that scores a competitor on eight fields and itself on three isn't a comparison. The chart above carries a date, a source list, and identical fields for all eleven rows, including ours.

Check the date on any comparison you read, this one included, and confirm terms with the operator before you book.

How much does it cost to rent a motorcycle in LA?

The lowest published rate in the Los Angeles market is $21 per day, a 2021 Honda ADV150 scooter listed on Riders Share. The lowest two-wheel motorcycle is a 2025 Yamaha MT-03 at $22 per day. Riders Share inventory spans $21 to $400 across 208 motorcycles, and 130 of those listings sit under $75, which is the part of the market the fixed fleet shops don't compete in at all.

Among operators with fixed rate cards, LAX Motorcycle Rental opens at $50 per day for a Honda Grom, Rebel 250, or Nighthawk 250, Moto Venice opens at $50, EagleRider opens at $121, and Moto For All opens at $129 for a Kawasaki Ninja 400. Twisted Road listings display from $48 after a first-time rider discount, from a base rate of $65.

The daily rate is where a comparison starts, not where it ends. Five fields decide the real number: the deposit, the mileage terms, the gear line, whether insurance is included or something you arrange yourself, and whether a platform fee lands at checkout. Every operator in this market handles at least one of those differently from the others.

Riders Share adds a service fee of about 25 percent of the rental total at checkout, which the company publishes in its own help center. Gear comes free, most listings run unlimited mileage, third-party liability meeting California minimums is included, and the deposit is waived for riders who submit a comprehensive and collision declarations page from a personal policy.

Twisted Road adds a community fee. On a single-day booking of a $65 motorcycle, that fee runs $74, more than the bike, for a subtotal of $139 before insurance. It softens across a longer rental, falling to $51 per day on a five-day booking, which still puts a bike advertised at $65 near $103 per day.

Moto Venice charges no platform fee, and meters the ride instead. Run a hundred-mile Malibu day on a $50 listing and the bike is $50, mileage adds $50 at $0.50 from the first mile with no free allowance, and the California motorcycle policy the operator requires renters to carry adds $15 per day through its partner. Gear isn't included and a helmet is required to rent, so a rider traveling without one rents that too. Delivery from the Venice garage is quoted at $14 per mile in the booking flow, and $1,000 sits on the card with mileage, late, and gear charges deducted before the refund clears.

LAX Motorcycle Rental puts the helmet and commercial liability insurance in the daily rate, which is unusual here, then caps the day at 200 miles and charges $0.20 for every mile past it.

Read all five fields together before comparing daily rates. An advertised rate that excludes gear, meters every mile, and expects you to bring your own policy isn't comparable to one that includes all three, whichever direction the arithmetic runs.

How much does it cost to rent a Harley in Los Angeles?

Harley-Davidson rentals in Los Angeles run from $36 to $331 per day, the widest spread of any California market covered in this series.

The lowest published rate is a 2008 XL 1200N Nightster at $36 per day on Riders Share, listed by Melrose Moto. A 2019 XL883N Iron 883 from the same shop sits just above it, and a 2026 Road Glide out of Glendale lists at $86.

EagleRider prices by model at its Hawthorne station, listing the Heritage Softail Classic at $196, the Street Glide and Road Glide at $208, the Street Glide Touring Edition, Road Glide Touring Edition, and Pan America 1250 Special at $220, the Street Glide Ultra at $245, and the Tri Glide Ultra at $331. Moto Venice stocks Harley-Davidson inside a $50 to $200 band that also covers Ducati, MV Agusta, and Aprilia.

For context on how the state compares, the cheapest Harley in San Francisco listed at $61 per day over a similar window and the cheapest in San Diego at $30. A Harley rental in Los Angeles sits near the low end of that spread, closer to San Diego than to the Bay Area.

Owner listings on Riders Share cover the same model families at owner-set rates. Browse Harley-Davidson rentals to compare specific models and pickup locations.

Can you rent a scooter in Los Angeles?

Scooter rentals in Los Angeles come from one operator. Riders Share lists 9 scooters from $21 to $56 per day, and no fixed fleet shop in this market stocks them at all as of August 4, 2026.

The inventory covers the full displacement range, which matters more than the price gap suggests. At the small end, a 2015 Honda NCH50 Giorno at 49cc rents for $30 in Walnut and a 2023 Honda Ruckus sits in Marina del Rey, both suited to beach paths and short hops. The middle of the range handles most of the basin: a 2016 Honda PCX150 in Downey, a 2012 Vespa S 150 i.e. in Los Angeles, a 2024 Amigo Avenza 200 at $36 in North Hollywood, a 2021 Piaggio Liberty 150 at $56, and the $21 Honda ADV150 at 149cc with long-travel suspension. At the top, a 2019 Yamaha XMAX at 292cc in Carson and a 2022 BMW C 400 GT at 350cc in Los Angeles carry enough displacement for freeway speeds.

A scooter handles Hollywood, Silver Lake, Venice, and Santa Monica traffic without the parking problem a full-size touring bike creates, and it costs less than half the cheapest fixed fleet rental in the market. What a scooter won't do is a canyon day, or a freeway run on the smaller machines.

Displacement decides where the machine belongs, so check the engine size on the listing against your route before booking, and confirm which California license class it requires. California issues a Class M1 for two-wheel motorcycles of any size and a Class M2 limited to motorized bicycles and certain motorized scooters, and the classification follows the specific vehicle rather than the word scooter.

Can you rent a motorcycle near LAX?

Two fixed fleet operators sit within roughly three miles of Los Angeles International Airport, and both are in Hawthorne. EagleRider is at 11860 South La Cienega Boulevard, which is also the company's corporate headquarters, and LAX Motorcycle Rental is at 12812 South Ramona Avenue. Bartels' Harley-Davidson in Marina del Rey, running the EagleRider counter, sits about five miles north.

Riders Share approaches the airport question from the other direction. Delivery is available on 108 of the 208 Los Angeles listings, so instead of routing to a counter you can have the bike brought to a hotel, a rental address, or an agreed pickup point. Pickup and drop-off run 8:00 am to 10:00 pm daily with the exact time arranged with the owner, and customer service runs 24/7, which covers a late arrival that a fixed-hour shop can't. Current pickup areas and hours are listed on the Riders Share Google Business Profile.

Burbank and Long Beach have no fixed fleet motorcycle rental counter at all, and both are covered by marketplace inventory instead. Riders Share listings sit in Glendale, Burbank, North Hollywood, Downey, Carson, Walnut, and Marina del Rey, and Twisted Road inventory reaches Long Beach. If you're flying into Hollywood Burbank or Long Beach rather than LAX, delivery or an owner meetup is the only option in this market.

Hours need more planning here than in most cities. LAX Motorcycle Rental is appointment only and will deliver for a one-way taxi fare plus a $50 drop-off fee. Moto For All closes Sunday. Moto Venice is appointment only, publishes conflicting hours on its own site, and states there may not always be someone at the garage, so arrange the time before turning up. Mti Moto runs 8:00 am to 4:00 pm daily by appointment and gives the location only after scheduling. EagleRider doesn't publish hours for the Hawthorne station on its location page, so confirm by phone if your return time is tight.

Do Los Angeles motorcycle rentals include gear?

Most Los Angeles operators include some gear, though what arrives with the bike varies, and one includes none.

Riders Share includes free gear across its listings, with helmets, jackets, gloves, and boots in sizes S through XXL, depending on the bike rented. EagleRider includes helmets in the daily rate at all locations. LAX Motorcycle Rental includes a helmet in the rate and rents jackets separately. Mti Moto includes helmets and gloves with every rental, and Live 100 Moto rents riding gear alongside the bikes. On Twisted Road and EagleShare, gear comes from the individual owner rather than a central inventory, so it appears on each motorcycle listing.

Moto Venice is the exception. Nothing is included. A helmet is required to rent, and the operator holds a limited supply of helmets, jackets, phone mounts, boots, and gloves for rent with advance notice.

California enforces a universal helmet law under CVC 27803, so every rider and passenger must wear a securely fastened DOT-approved helmet regardless of age or experience. Gear is not a comfort decision here, and a rate that excludes it isn't comparable to one that includes it.

Layers matter on top of the helmet rule. A Los Angeles ride can start at the coast in fog at sixty degrees, climb Angeles Crest into thin mountain air, and drop into the valley twenty-five degrees warmer on the same afternoon. Pack for two climates on any ride that leaves the basin.

Mileage caps and what unlimited actually covers

Riders Share includes unlimited mileage on most listings, with certain bikes carrying limits and overage rates set by the owner. Twisted Road states that almost all rentals include unlimited miles, with any limits disclosed in the listing description.

Three operators charge by the mile, and each does it differently. LAX Motorcycle Rental caps the day at 200 miles and charges $0.20 for each mile past it. EagleRider offers unlimited mileage on select models only, a qualifier that appears in the rental terms rather than at the top of the booking flow, and doesn't publish a per-mile rate on capped models. Moto Venice sets no cap at all and instead charges $0.50 for every mile from the first one, deducted from the $1,000 deposit at the end of the rental.

Los Angeles day trips run long enough for that to matter. Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Monica up to Santa Barbara and back covers roughly 180 miles, which fits inside the LAX Motorcycle Rental cap with almost nothing to spare and adds about $90 in mileage charges on a Moto Venice bike. Angeles Crest Highway runs about 66 miles from La Cañada Flintridge to Wrightwood, so riding it out and back from central Los Angeles clears 160 miles before any detours. Stack a coast run and a canyon day into one rental and a 200 mile daily cap is gone.

If you're planning distance out of EagleRider, LAX Motorcycle Rental, or Moto Venice, confirm by phone whether your specific model carries a cap and what the overage costs before you book.

What is the best motorcycle ride near Los Angeles?

Pacific Coast Highway north out of Santa Monica through Malibu is the ride the city is known for, and the run to Santa Barbara and back covers roughly 180 miles of open sweepers with the ocean on your left the whole way out. It rewards a touring bike or a comfortable cruiser, which is where the Harley-Davidson and BMW inventory earns its rate.

Angeles Crest Highway is the opposite ride. State Route 2 climbs out of La Cañada Flintridge and runs about 66 miles of switchbacks and elevation into the San Gabriels, topping 7,900 feet at Dawson Saddle, and it rewards something lighter with better lean angle. Sections close for snow in winter and for fire activity in late summer, so check conditions before committing to the full run.

Mulholland Drive rides the ridgeline between the two, close enough to central Los Angeles for an afternoon, with the Rock Store on Mulholland Highway serving as the weekend gathering point. Latigo Canyon and Decker Canyon drop from that ridge back to the coast if you want to link the canyons to a PCH return.

Match the bike to the road before you match it to the price. A Street Glide is a poor tool for Angeles Crest, and a 150cc scooter is a poor tool for Santa Barbara. The Los Angeles rider's guide covers the routes, the parking, and the seasonal closures in detail.

What do you need to rent a motorcycle in California?

California requires a Class M1 license to operate a two-wheel motorcycle of any engine size, and every motorcycle rental operator in Los Angeles requires an endorsement before releasing a bike. Out-of-state licenses are accepted when they carry the endorsement, and LAX Motorcycle Rental accepts international motorcycle licenses.

Twenty-one is the standard minimum age across the market. EagleRider, LAX Motorcycle Rental, Riders Share, and Twisted Road all set 21 as the floor, and no operator here publishes a pathway for riders under 21.

Experience requirements layer on top of age. Riders Share requires three or more years of riding history from renters under 25 and limits riders holding temporary licenses to bikes filtered as Easy Rides, and individual owners can set 25 as their own minimum on a listing. Twisted Road documents riding history in the rider profile, may require two years of current riding from renters under 25, and requires non-US license holders to be at least 25. LAX Motorcycle Rental publishes the strictest experience rule in the market, stating that it doesn't rent to riders who have recently been licensed or who have no street riding experience, and directing those riders to a training session first.

Insurance is handled three different ways here, and two of them need action before pickup. Riders Share includes third-party liability coverage meeting California minimums on every rental and offers damage waiver tiers at checkout, starting at $19 per day. LAX Motorcycle Rental includes commercial liability insurance in the daily rate with a $2,000 renter deductible. Moto Venice requires renters to hold their own California motorcycle policy and offers one through a partner from $15 per day, and Moto For All requires proof of insurance at booking. A policy you have to arrange yourself is a cost the daily rate doesn't show, so if you don't already carry California motorcycle coverage, you're buying it before you ride.

Booking a motorcycle in Los Angeles

Riders Share lists 208 motorcycles in Los Angeles for August 2026 dates, spanning scooters at $21 per day through premium and specialty models at $400, across 34 brands including Harley-Davidson, Indian, BMW, Ducati, and MV Agusta. One hundred and thirty of those listings sit under $75. Most listings include unlimited mileage, gear comes free with the rental, delivery is available on 108 listings, and the deposit is waived for riders who submit proof of comprehensive and collision coverage on a personal policy. Twenty-five guided experiences run alongside the rental inventory, and select listings are available to purchase after the rental, so you can ride a bike before deciding whether to buy it.

Browse motorcycle rentals in Los Angeles and book your next ride today.