An interesting question. Both of my children (in their 20's and one still a student) travel extensively but just not by motorcycle (or car come to that). They go everywhere by various forms of public transport.
Those of us in what I suppose is the mainstream age for motorcycle travel (at a guess 50's or even (like me) 60's may well have had our preferences formed at a time when cheap air fights didn't exist and motorcycles were in that brief 'high tech' boom time (70's mainly) where they seemed like the future. That niche seems to have passed on to electronics in its various forms these days while road transport is increasingly seen as some kind of pariah.
Whether there's any truth in that is something I want to try and investigate later this year. I'm redoing a trip I originally did in 1970 using the same model bike and I want to see what's changed / what's easier / more difficult etc. As you say I doubt I'll meet my 1970 student self out exploring anywhere on the trip.
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