thirdgenbird

I "want" an MV but it is not in the budget

RobMc

I gave up riding after a bad accident in 89. I really miss it but I promised my family I would quit riding. I have a snowmobile and an s2000 which somewhat fill the gap.

TRINITONY

few,,lol..I've seen them and they're as new..

TRINITONY

bring that on Sunday...

jcnesq

I didn't read this whole thread, but jumping in late. I rode for a while when I was a "kid" because you could get a motorcycle license at 15.5, but the day I turned 16 I got my first sports car. I still had a friend's road racing bike stored at my house so I rode it now and then. To this day (45 years later, I still have a motorcycle endorsement on my CA drivers license), and I still think about getting something - mainly an urge to get a Ducati crotch-rocket sometimes. If it wasn't for having young kids on my second marriage/life, I probably would.

_Nathan

I used to be a motorcycle fanatic. Here's me back in the day on my 1982 Honda VF750 Sabre. I put over 40K miles on that bike then sold it and never looked back. I haven't ridden one in over 20 years.

Buffedbiker#1960

After taking up bikes in my 40s....and getting hit 3 times in Los Angeles freeways, streets and lastly at a light (it was red and i was hit from behind)....having foot torn open, leg broken, concussion, two broken ribs, dislocated thumb, torn rotator cuff, tail bone injury.....i give up....back to a sports car until i get the heck out of this god forsaken city...

IXLR8

Having driven in Canada, the US and many parts of Europe, all I can say is we hand out driver's licences like they are a prize in a box of Cracker Jacks.

i flipped through the student driver handbook in Germany and ours here looks like a comic book. LOL

Then you look at fatalities in Germany and the US. Considering traffic density and unlimited speeds on their highways, they are doing far better than us.

Madturk

I have but not for cars. When I got
married it was part of the deal

rsabeebe

i certainly wouldn't say i gave them up for sports cars. sports cars came first in the form of a 914 at 17y/o. i have had many types of bikes - motox, SM, adv, sport touring, multiple ducatis (favorite bikes all around), and i still have a KTM 690SM. i pulled back on bikes once i left the east coast. used to ride in the mountains of NC, VA, and eastern TN. phenomenal roads there! i have been down just once - got lucky, as i slid across on-coming traffic on a blind right hander. hit a patch of washed out gravel mid-turn. once i moved to the dallas area and saw how these people drive and the quality of roads here, it made the decision easy to back off. drivers here are generally awful! i'm not putting my life in the hands of these people. the only sports car that might give you any of the same emotions would be a super small, lightweight convertible - TR6, alfa duetto/spider, miata, MG maybe. anything more than that and it's just not the same experience at all. motorcycles have their very own experience.

rileyracing1

After 40+ years of motorcycle racing and riding and owning over 300+ bikes I have pretty much given up on riding although I still have 1- VFR800 which I take out a handful of times a year to my wife's dismay.

I am glad I survived all my motorcycle stories and was able to truly enjoy motorcycling when bikes and insurance were dirt cheap the roads were much better , there were way less cars, rules & cops and morons on the road and the glory days of sport bikes was just emerging.

Now a days everything has been overdone & overregulated to where even owning a nice car is not much fun anymore .....

Onami

I have one left and I am actively trying to sell it. Same deal...distracted drivers, city living, crazy insurance costs and getting older. They were a lot of fun though...especially in the 90's before cell phones.

rsabeebe

cells phone are the worst thing to EVER HAPPEN to driving!! i can't tell you how many *****-challenged people i see everyday on their phone while actually driving. stopping at a red light, the phone is in their face before the car comes to rest! it's taken the place of mascara. it's so pathetic - and dangerous (for the rest of us). can you tell how much i hate phone use in the car? if they would actually ticket for it, as they say, it would be a revenue BOOM!

INTMD8

Wouldn't say I gave it up but do generally enjoy driving cars more than bikes.

Kind of the same as a 993 scenario, I kept going after newer/faster so had a Diavel and V4 Panigale. Got rid of them as I enjoy riding my old 1986 XL600 enduro more on the street.

venom51

I retired from motorcycle racing due to age and enjoyment level for the effort I was putting in. I bought a high performance beetle with all the money I am no longer spending racing.