You should ride a motorcycle. This post got started from a tangent in another thread, "Volunteering in a primarycare doctors office for 2 years opened my eyes...", but I think it's important enough to merit independent existence.
Motorcycles can be incredibly dangerous, but if you ride conservatively and carefully you will likely only fall once. Motorcycles also attract daredevils, which likely skews the data on injuries and fatalities. Still, I try to restrict riding to daylight hours and to surface streets rather than highways.
Riding is incredibly fun. You can learn how by Googling "learn how to ride a motorcycle in city x." Courses will cost $150 - $400 or so. Let me emphasize that YOU MUST TAKE A CLASS. You can maybe learn from a buddy w/ a bike but I still recommend the class. If you do not take it you are risking your life and health for little reason.
You should ride for yourself but you should also know that women fucking LOVE motorcycles. I have a Zero and it's amazing. I will never ride a conventional, gas-powered bike full-time again. You can likely find cheap ones online but you will need an experienced person to guide you if you go the used, conventional-bike route.
In online dating the motorcycle pic I have gets all the comments and questions (my preferred pic grouping is one shirtless and lifting or running, one moto, one of two girls kissing my cheeks, one involving drinking, adventure, or travel). If you don't know how to ride I strongly suggest you learn. One of my favorite, go-to comments to women early in the interaction is, "Usually I don't let women ride my bike till after I've slept with them." Often I let that "rule" slide and ride with them anyway. Because of the geometry of bikes and the thrill of doing it, the ride often acts as a kind of foreplay. Women who've ridden before know it too.
In the other thread /u/LuvBeer said "My first date basically consists of a motorcycle ride, makeout session, then back to my place." A golden comment. I've done dates like his. If you take her out for 10 - 15 mins of riding, you should find a good place to pull over, pull off her helmet, and kiss her passionately for a couple minutes. It'll feel natural and exhilarating to her.
Riding a motorcycle will obviously not fix broken fundamentals of personality, weight, social presence, etc. You cannot buy your way out of who you are. But it's super fun, makes a super fun date or part of a date, makes you look badass in the eyes of women (who almost never know any better) and is a fun, low-carbon way of getting around. I get opened all the time when I dodge into stores with my helmet.
In many cities a motorcycle will have to complement a car rather than substitute for it, but if you live in a dense urban area with good public transport and good Uber and Lyft, you may be able to ditch the car full-time. If you must have a car and bike you will raise your costs, which sucks, but I think it's worthwhile for guys who can hack it.
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