Motorcycle riding and becoming a better, safer rider are more about the journey then the destination. Like a journey, it should be a continuous process, and once it stops, so does the joy and fun of it all
Any sport kinda is cutthroat son, BUT… motorsports has that extra edge I believe nowhere else to find. It combines human, competition, ego, social, tech, environment, feel, emotion, life, and even death. The higher your level- the higher all this goes. It all keeps ramping up limitless. It consumes your soul.