My family got into bikes in the early 70's. My Father, Mother, Sister & Older Brother all had their bike licenses. When I went to get my drivers license in '76 I rode my Father's Yamaha DT-175 Enduro, (Like this)
down to Motor Vehicle while my Mother followed my in her '69 VW Bug.
I took both written tests and past them so I did the auto driving test first. I passed that then got on the bike and passed that too! It was a cold January day but I didn't let that stop me. We always had little bikes that we would just go out for Sunday rides on. My Sister had a early 70's CB-175 twin cylinder Honda. (Like this)
She then sold it to my Mother so I had my pick of rides. If I wanted to do some off-roading I'd take the Yamaha. If I was up for a street ride I would take the Honda. I had a lot of fun on those two bikes.
Later on (like 20 years) I purchased a used Yamaha XT-250 after my friend bought a brand new Yamaha XT-200. There used to be a lot of small off-road areas around this part of New Jersey that were just waiting to be developed. Since we were street legal we could just cruise to them. None of the places were large enough for the MX'rs to trailer to so we had them all to ourselves. We would lay out a track at each location. We ended up with an all day loop around the county visiting all of our "tracks".
My friend then moved down to the mountains of Virginia so I had him take my bike with him. Here's a photo of me in his back yard.
The trails around his property were so steep that it was a tough ride. He ended up getting a couple of 4-wheelers (atvs) which worked a lot better, so I sold my bike.
Every year on the first warm spring day I think about getting back out "in the wind".