- Buy good gear
- Take motorcycle course if you’ve never ridden before.
- Buy a good cheap starter bike depending on how comfortable you are. (usually 600, 250 if you’re really uncomfortable)
- Profit??
- Upgrade to a better bike the following year.
As far as a second car… I don’t know where the confusion lies there. Keep the bike in the garage over winter, drive the car for rain and snow. I don’t ALWAYS ride my bike. It’s not like you can ONLY have the bike and I’m guessing you already have a car. So keep it and get the bike as a second vehicle.
It doesn’t sound like your getting into this for the gas mileage, which is good, because that’s a really stupid way to go about it considering you normally lose money.