I’ve been riding bikes for transportation and recreation off and on since I was ten years old. As an adult I have bought, ridden then eventually sold a few new bikes. As I biked more the type of bike I liked evolved.
I’ve always liked to fix things up, make them usable again, so am into buying then overhauling lugged steel bikes, typically late ‘70’s to mid 1990’s. I go for Miyata, Nishiki, Centurion and those types. Then a few years ago I bought my first Raleigh Twenty folding bike and I was hooked. They have a cult following and I drank the cool Aid. I have 4 of them.

I bought a new, 650b Surly Straggler with disc brakes and drop bars. I don’t ride it much and it’s pristine.

One day while cruising Craigslist I saw a Burley recumbent for sale at a low enough price that I thought I could buy it and not be out too much money if I didn’t like it. It was in a town some 75 miles away, and around the time of the solar eclipse and living in Oregon, our roads were expected to be a madhouse. That bike sold.
I found a Rans Rocket -circa 2000, for a reasonable price, but by then I was heavily into researching Recumbents, and I thought I could do better. There are 2 recumbent specific bike stores in my area, so I went to one, knowing they sold Bacchetta brand and I liked the look of the monotube. So....I bought a new Giro A20 but with the Recurve seat, which is great for my type of riding.
I had never even sat on any kind of recumbent until my first test rides at the bike shop. There’s a learning curve, and I knew that going in. I’m having the best time ever on it.