Started riding in 1980 on a 79 Suzuki TS100 dual sport because I was such an irresponsible shithead my parents wouldn't let me get a drivers license cuz they were afraid I'd kill somebody. So they let me get a motorcycle license and I bought the cheapest street legal bike I could find. Told me it was okay to kill myself but they weren't going to be part of my killing my friends in a car. Turns out they were right. Totaled that bike getting hit by a an 18 wheeler in just over a year right before my 18th birthday and spent a week in hospital .
Got my car drivers license as soon as I turned 18 and bought a car.
Missed riding so I bought another dual sport Yam xt200 which i mostly used on dirt.
Then I bought a 1983 Suzuki GS 450 and started riding street and learning to race
Sold that and got a 88 CBR600
I also got a 1984 Yamaha RZ350 around the same time and mostly raced that bike till around 90 right before I moved to Colorado when i sold it and the CBR.
Didn't ride or really even think about motorcycles again for almost 30 years until 3 years ago when I started drooling over a Ducati Multistrada that my friend had....
Got the jones and finally bought 2014 Vstrom 650 right after Covid hit and got my wife who had never even been on a motorcycle in her life to take a learn to ride course and bought her a Honda NC700 DCT. In the middle of last ski season I then bought a Husky TE300 and starting riding it in the spring. 3 rides in I had a small crash on that and tore my acl so it sits in the garage all summer and till next spring when I can get it out for riding during early spring then head to Baja in late May for 2 weeks to help a buddy out with logistics, pre-ride scouting and some pit help for his Baja 500 race attempt.
So 30 years with no bikes and now 3 in the family and looking to buy some acreage somewhere NOT in CO to build my own little private dirt bike track on that is rideable to forest service trails.
I'd kill to have that RZ350 back today