How many miles per year do you ride?
If you ride an occasional few hours once or twice a month in good weather in non-city traffic, I can see you lasting a thousand years. If you ride every day 20 miles to work and back on the Interstates in Houston, I give you five years. I can't go five years without getting rear-ended in my truck in the stop-and-go traffic on 59. Getting rear-ended in a truck is no big deal. Getting rear-ended on a motorcycle is a different story entirely.
Don't get me wrong. I love motorcycles. After 50,000 uneventful miles I decided to quit while I was ahead. The thought of getting killed doesn't bother me that much. The thought of joining the ranks of Christopher Reeve bothers me a lot.
May the Good Lord keep you safe on your bike all the days that you ride.
That, FRiend, gives me hope of seeing my 30th birthday...