Started riding on the street at 17 (not sure what my parents were thinking) and will be 57 in a couple of months. I have always had at least one bike in the garage for 40 years, sometimes 2 or 3. Many different brands. Brands don't define me but I am not an HD fan at all. I live for the long adventures. Being a school teacher I get the summer to ride and have covered North America from Alaska to Key West and Maine to California. I prefer to do the long trips alone, sometimes the wife will go and sometimes she will fly and meet me somewhere we want to stay for a week. I am not a bar hopper but will certianly find a bar after a 500 mile day and I am in a hotel or the campsite is set up. I hope to ride until I pass on to the next place we go, hopefully there will be motorcycles there. If the health begins to present a problem I will be on 3 wheels. I think I like to do the long trips alone because I can go where I want and do what I want. I also think the fact that I spend my working days in a classroom that 160-170 teenagers pass through each day makes me long for solitude.