I used to have a bike. I started out as a teenager on a Honda 125 Elsinore dirt bike.
Then one day when I was not sober, a buddy called me from a bike show in Edmonton, Alberta.
He says "You gotta come see this new bike just out, it just broke the world speed record for a stock production bike"! It was 1983 and the V65 Magna had just come out. I went to the show and all they had was 1 display bike, and a huge video screen with a constant loop of the bike doing burnouts, and a 1/4 mile in under 11 seconds at 120+ mph.
Not being sober I immediately plunked down the $4,400 and ordered me one! No experience other than the 125 dirt bike remember.
I got it on a Saturday. Sunday night (Yes, only one day later) I was heading home on it (not sober, recognize a pattern here?
) and got within 1 block of home when I flipped it. $800 damage and about a pound of meat off my one leg!
With age comes wisdom, and I don't live like that anymore.