I stopped trying years ago. As much as I love riding my motorcycles, I can say, unequivocally, that motorcyclists are some of the most finicky, wimpy, fairweather people

I've lost count of how many forum posts/threads or Facebook group posts have had people talking about their initial amount of people interested being 12 people or more interested in a ride, and by the time the ride day arrived it was just one or two people.

I think for a lot of people motorcycle riding is more whimsical and that it's something they do when they have the time, if they're not busy, if they want to, if they kind of feel like it today etc etc. That is to say, not passionate.

Then, even if you do get out with a small group. I would never ride with more than three or four other people. Are they squids? Are they slow as all hell? (Like, seriously, wondering if they fell off, slow.) Do they need to stop every 30 miles? Do they only stop after they've gone through 225 miles of gas? There's just all of this crap to navigate, and I can't be bothered to try any longer.

I've met other riders, and despite being utterly accommodating in every way that I can, and moderating at every way that I can my riding style, I've ridden with 6 people and I've never seen any one of them ever again. For a few months afterwards, however, three of them were great about blowing smoke up my ass about riding again.