For many of us, the people we used to ride with aren't there any more. They are either dead, many have moved to different states, have health problems and can't ride, lost interest and no longer ride, etc. So I ride by myself these days, and use the bike to go places that I need to go even if I drove a car or truck. It's no longer recreation, it's just transportation. I can't take overnight trips because I have a good dog at home that depends on me to take care of her. I'm okay with that...

 

It is just a sign that you have more than a one-dimensional life. That your life has the chance of being full and rewarding.
Good for you!

 

For many people this is why they hunt less.

I too have dogs so can't go places with people. I used to have cheap dog sitter. Not a weekend is $$$

Often my bikes are transportation. But I enjoy it. I don't do as much runs, I get it out of my system going to work. Get my junkie fix commuting

 

Nothing lasts forever for many people, but sometimes a very long road trip will get your head back to where it was when you enjoyed riding.

 

For everything thing there is a season. I used to do,two big trips a year. Now a spend a lot of vacation in woods but I really miss touring

 

53 years of legal riding on the street. Thrill joy of riding not lost but where it comers from changes. Never did the part it at the bar thing. Bike night ok for a few minutes.

Sidecar with Grandchildren on road trips not just around the block is one heck of a boost.

Getting away riding with wife always makes the ride worth while.

 

I do tire of the same local roads and traffic. Moto camping and multiple bikes keeps the thrill alive. Recently rode from NC to Alaska and back. Weather was often windy, wet, and cold. Nonetheless, there was nothing I would have rather been doing.

 

I'm in the same boat your in.. Been everywhere and saw most all of the places I've read about, some many times over the years. Still enjoy a nice ride in the back country in cool weather but it's not do or die anymore. Bike is in the garage, it's 90 out and I m enjoying our central air and having a drink on a hot Sunday afternoon..

 

This year will be my 4th time, I love riding the Black Hills and also Wyoming.
Will admit are times I contemplate if I really do want to go on this trip but once on the road heading to the destination am sure glad I decided to go.

 

I get the whole (rode all the local roads around here a thousand times). I don't tour anymore, the wife and I used to all the time, but she has gotten to the point of not enjoying sitting on the back of a bike anymore. So now 95% of any riding I do is solo. A few years back I bought a fun sports car. The wife and I use that a lot more these days. I still ride and still like to ride, but it is far less then I have in the past. I just bought a bike I've been on the hunt for for quite some time. Sometimes I walk out in the garage and go... (Why the hell did I do that?) I don't ride the one I have much anymore. Things change, people change, our priorities change... If you're not into it right now.... don't do it. Nothing saying you have too. It doesn't matter what anyone else does or thinks, none of us are the same.

I never understood the mentality that, I have a bike I have to ride it... I've always rode bikes, so I have to keep doing it... etc... You know how many guns I own that I can't tell you the last time I shot? Right now the wife and I are debating building a cabin on land we have. If we do that, all but one bike will be sold, my Camaro will get sold, and I'll buy a side by side and probably a pontoon boat. I'll spend the majority of my time at our cabin with our grandkids making memories. I don't know what the future holds for me quite yet, but I've never felt that I "Have To" do anything. That includes riding.

Good Luck with your thought process. Hope you work it out... Peace