Losing interest.... - Page 2

Trip · 09-12-2012, 11:39 PM

I got that way toward the end of my sport bike days. Maybe it's time for a new type of riding.

RACER X · 09-13-2012, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by KSGregman

The car IS taking up quite a bit of my attention (and money

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I still want the M109-R...no other bike out there right now fires me up like it does...well, except for the Triumph Rocket III Roadster...but...that will need to be a project for another day.

Ducati Diavel

Papa_Complex · 09-13-2012, 09:31 AM

I had a more than three year stretch, where I barely threw a leg over. In my case it started with rebreaking a collarbone, in a non riding related incident, followed by a series of other more minor injuries. I got out of the riding habit and didn't get back into it, until I bought my new ER-6n a couple of years back. Even now, though, I'm more of a commuting rider than the tourer that I used to be.

azoomm · 09-13-2012, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by RACER X

Ducati Diavel

I'm not going to lie, I actually really like the ride on that demo. It had semi truck torque with sport handling.

derf · 09-13-2012, 10:24 AM

I know the feeling, I used to take a nice 24 mile route to work (instead of the straight 8 miles commute, now I'm exactly 2 miles from work, and there is almost no justifiable reason to take any kind of long way.

I only find myself on the bike once or twice a week

shmike · 09-13-2012, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by azoomm

I lost interest for a while. Strange enough, it was the second year I had the track. Frankly, I think I burned out on it. I mean, we went through 11 sets of tires the first year. And I was driving the car and went through 3 sets of tires on a Mini Cooper. We weren't racing any of it - just riding like hell.

I think it turned into a lot of work for me. I took a few months off, which was tough working for BMW. I know - first world problems with my hand on my forehead.

But, I'm now back into it full swing. I'm riding on the street for my own entertainment again which hasn't happened in a long time. Pace yourself, man. You DID just get a new sportscar...

I went through something similar.

I went from racing a lot to mostly trackdays and instructing. Then, I bought a new bike, had a baby, went through a crashing streak and seemingly had a major regression in my riding ability (speed).

All of the sudden, going to the track felt more like work than fun. I'd leave the track more frustrated than when I showed up. I came >ll< close to packing it all up for a few years.

pauldun170 · 09-13-2012, 10:54 AM

Whenever I lose the bug I go out and get lost somewhere.

CasterTroy · 09-13-2012, 11:00 AM

I had been losing the passion for a while. A lost friend and a crash a year after that solidified my loss of drive.

Now I have no desire to ride on the road at all.

I did track only for a year after that, and had some fun...but that too just fizzled out.

With ME...it's age. The same things don't drive me that use too when I was 20.

I bought a dirtbike and returned to my roots. I LOVE that

I too agree with trying a new type bike. Dirt or dual or cruise.

Borrow something. See if it butters your beans.

KSGregman · 09-13-2012, 11:05 AM

Honestly, what I'd LIKE to do is get a dual sport....and take my camping gear out into the wide open free range lands here in Kansas....ride out into the middle of no where until I found a spot that caught my fancy....set up a small camp...spend the evening reading...hiking about some....watching the stars...then ride back home again the next day.

Make the motorcycle the means...not the ends....to the hobby.

CasterTroy · 09-13-2012, 11:06 AM

Several of my old sportbike buddies have gone this route

09-13-2012, 09:31 AM	#13
Papa_Complex Nomadic Tribesman Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Brampton, Canada Moto: '09 ER-6n Posts: 11,150	I had a more than three year stretch, where I barely threw a leg over. In my case it started with rebreaking a collarbone, in a non riding related incident, followed by a series of other more minor injuries. I got out of the riding habit and didn't get back into it, until I bought my new ER-6n a couple of years back. Even now, though, I'm more of a commuting rider than the tourer that I used to be. __________________ "Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge, "Dorkness Rising" http://www.morallyambiguous.net/

09-13-2012, 10:24 AM	#15
derf token jewboy Join Date: Nov 2008 Moto: CBR 900, KLR ugly ass duckling, Gas Man Posts: 10,799	I know the feeling, I used to take a nice 24 mile route to work (instead of the straight 8 miles commute, now I'm exactly 2 miles from work, and there is almost no justifiable reason to take any kind of long way. I only find myself on the bike once or twice a week __________________

09-13-2012, 11:00 AM	#18
CasterTroy ................ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NC Posts: 3,028	I had been losing the passion for a while. A lost friend and a crash a year after that solidified my loss of drive. Now I have no desire to ride on the road at all. I did track only for a year after that, and had some fun...but that too just fizzled out. With ME...it's age. The same things don't drive me that use too when I was 20. I bought a dirtbike and returned to my roots. I LOVE that I too agree with trying a new type bike. Dirt or dual or cruise. Borrow something. See if it butters your beans. __________________ “Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.” Viktor Frankl

09-13-2012, 11:06 AM	#20
CasterTroy ................ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NC Posts: 3,028	Several of my old sportbike buddies have gone this route __________________ “Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.” Viktor Frankl

09-13-2012, 11:05 AM	#19
KSGregman Get Fit...or Get OUT Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: KS Moto: 07 M109-R Posts: 1,993	Honestly, what I'd LIKE to do is get a dual sport....and take my camping gear out into the wide open free range lands here in Kansas....ride out into the middle of no where until I found a spot that caught my fancy....set up a small camp...spend the evening reading...hiking about some....watching the stars...then ride back home again the next day. Make the motorcycle the means...not the ends....to the hobby.