Re: What is your age?
38 here. Been riding dirtbikes since I was 10. Road our 180 acres of pasture and woods in rural MN and also all the gravel roads and snowmobile trails in the summertime. Luckily they didn't shut down the snowmobile trails to summer motorized traffic until after I graduated high school and moved out of state, but what a waste to let those trails lay dormant, except for the occasional horseback rider, for all of summer.
I got my motorcycle endorsement the same day I got my driver's license. I was more excited to get the motorcycle endorsement than the drivers license. I'd been driving a dual sport on the streets since I was 12 (and cars about as long), but it was nice to finally be legal. My dad had brought home a Kawasaki KE125 dual sport so he could ride with me on my XR80. He brought it home on the headache rack of his cabover Freighliner. We unloaded it and I jumped on the seat before he could even get the straps off of it. "Look! I can touch!". He knew he'd never get much seat time after he saw me sitting there and dragging tippy-toes. 30 minutes later, after he took a spin, down the driveway I went. Ha. After I graduated and moved away, I had at least one street bike and one offroad bike at all times and through various states that I lived in. After buying my last dual sport ('08 WR250R), I sold off the last of my street bikes and my motocross bike (that I just used for trail riding).
Since my wife finally changed over to riding offroad (she'd been riding street bikes long before I met her), she sold off her street-only bike, too, and after a half season on CRF230F, also ended up on a WR250R. After a few seasons of having only one bike, I'm ready to add a bigger dual sport to the lineup. Since the WRR is so good on the highway, the midsize dual sports would have had too much ability overlap, so I went "all in" and ordered the Super Tenere. They will make nice bookends and will cover virtually any type of riding in which I'm interested in doing.
