MOTO: The WILD ONES

Downtown Los Angeles New Bike Shed Moto Co. might just be the coolest motorcycle lifestyle space ever created

- NICOLAS STECHER

On first approaching the new Bike Shed Moto Co. in Downtown Los Angeles on a crisp winter afternoon, we're not entirely sure what to expect. Certainly not the hive of activity and commotion the parking lot outside rumbling with two-wheeled creations from standard-issue stock Yamaha YZFs to severely modded out BMWs and Norton Commandos.

Through the front doors inside the brick-walled warehouse, there's a 20-something hipster with a Nikon DSLR attached to his laptop attentively editing video footage in one corner. Next to him a young woman who appears plucked straight from a Maxim photoshoot noshes on a plate of baby back ribs plump with meat. Below on the patio by the open garage bay, a young group of about a dozen professionals enjoy a festive holiday lunch.