I've been ridin' a long time...
Here's my first bike I bought when I was 10 yrs old with money I made working on the family cattle farm. It's a 1965 Honda Trail 90. Mine wasn't new of course. In fact, it was owned by a neighbor about my dad's age who deer hunted off of it. He had a gun scabbard on the front fork with an ever present and loaded .35 Marlin lever action that he'd jerk out as he stepped off the bike when he saw a deer in the woods while riding. As the deer watched the old bike roll out through the woods, he'd hammer him with the old .35. He killed a lot of deer that way.
There's been a whole lot of different bikes come and go since then, and I remember each and every one of them like I would an old friend. Other than my mountain bikes, a couple of ATV's and my dirt bike, this is how I roll these days...