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Swingshiftworker previously said:

I started riding when I was 15 1/2 years old, which is over 40 years ago.

I'm between motorcycles now, but I'm a sports touring rider who has traveled throughout the western United States and western Canada from the Pacific to the Rockies and back, through Alaska from Anchorage to Fairbanks and back, through the Alps from Munich through Salsberg, Innsbruck, St. Moritz, Cortina and Lake Garda and back, throughout northern Mexico down to Patzcuaro, Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, the Copper Canyon and Matzatlan and back up through Baja from LaPaz.

None of these trips would have been as much fun or as memorable in a car -- and that's coming from a guy who currently owns 5 cars. I'm thinking about getting another bike (probably a Honda ST1300) even now, but at 57 (pushing 60) most of my riding days are behind me. Nonetheless, I feel privileged to have seen so much of the world from the seat of a bike and, if I never ride again, I'll always have fond memories of the motorcycle tours that I've taken in the past.

Here are a few of the bikes that I've owned previously:

1965 Honda 305 Scrambler (my 1st bike)
1968 Triumph Bonneville 650 (a classic)
1979 Triumph Bonneville 750
1981 Yamaha Seca 650
1989 Kawasaki ZX10 (my favorite bike that I just sold last year)
1998 BMW K1200RS (a lemon)
1998 Ducati 998 (a work of art)

DUDE! What was wrong with the K1200rs?(or was it just a "Taxi cab"?) that you called it a lemon?
I traded my 98 K12rs last year for a 07 R1200GS. I LOVE this bike to death!
But as I'm typing this I wearing a Pirates' Lair Tshirt with my old "Taxi" on the back. It was FAST, but heavy and hard for the home machinack to work on. That wasthe only reason I traded it. I do sometimes miss it though.