Sharing startup Twisted Road wants to be the Airbnb for motorcycles

Austin Rothbard is the founder of a start-up called Twisted Road. It's the Airbnb of motorcycles where owners rent their rides such as this 2016 Triumph Thruxton R customized by Lossa Engineering and available for $195 per day. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Austin Rothbard was frustrated. 

For the third time in a row, he'd found himself on vacation, in a scenic place that was perfect for motorcycling, without a motorcycle and without any way to rent one.