A long term friend has recently asked me to not ride my bike to their home when I visit because her DS (who's 17, I think, terrible for me not to know exactly, I realise) has started to show an interest in motorcycles and she's aghast at the idea of him riding one. It's a shame because the road to her home is a lot of fun and, if anything, I'd have thought the sight of me on one would make it seem less cool to him. I even joked to her that she should take up biking to ruin it for him (her reaction showed this to be a mistake).
I'm going to respect her wishes but it still seems somewhat unreasonable and I really can't see how I'm going to influence him in any significant way. If he's already interested, I'm fairly sure I'm going to get blamed if he does get one and inevitably has an accident (probably not a serious one but almost every new biker will have an accident at some point).