what hobbies have you got?

motopatter

I ride motorcycle trials, but I'm looking for something else maybe as it's only possible because of family to get out once a month at best. I also have guitars and bass but I'm not any good :oops:

what do you do when you're not on the saddle

Jay dubbleU

Kind people put me back in the cupboard until next time

cycling psychologist

I silversmith a bit. Started off threading beads - that lasted for about a day and then I found I could burn and hit sh1t and make lovely things to wear - great stress reliever and you need NO talent (trust me, I have none!)

We are in GCSE season so I have recently been making muffins for the superchild

Libraio

I read a lot and try to play the guitar. Try as in it sits on its stand in the corner mocking me and to punish it for mocking me I let it sit on its stand...

Agent57

First-person shooters. Mostly Team Fortress 2 at the moment.

Blue Meanie

I like to comment on forum threads where I don't have much to add...

Nik Cube

I spend much of my free time playing cars with my three year old son

I also play guitar and listen to music a fair bit

SimonAH

.........umm, in no particular order

Guitar (accoustic blues and dobro) more enthusiasm than talent.

Woodwork (furniture)

Motorcycles (Custom chrome tanked Zephyr, virago, bonnie)

Minis (proper ones. Chop screened open top speedster shell under construction)

Seven year old daughter

Making wines and spirits

Gardening

PBo

Cooking.

You have to spend time doing it anyway, so it's a real bargain that the time feels like fun rather than a chore. (Just like bike commuting in fact!)

It's so simple to take a little bit of extra care or imagination with food and make something much nicer than bog standard - and I don't mean pretending you're a michelin chef either.....

snooks

I go sailing. An enjoyable and excellent way to waste time and money.

May be you need another bike?

richred_uk

I wargame (well, mostly I paint the figures with the intention of one day wargaming with them when I have time).

And I study for my CIMA exams, and promise to find time to read the books I keep buying and listen to more music.

Initialised

Riding naked past speed cameras

mitchell_inman

Took up archery at the end of last year.

Join a club with all sorts of "different" people, endless bits of expensive kit to buy, top of the range stuff made of carbon fibre, spend ages fettling.

Dunno what the attraction was...

Libraio

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Ahh, Minis. Sold my 1998 Cooper S Brooklands last year 'cos I hardly drive anymore. Stil lust after a ZCars conversion done to a Sprint shell, steel or fibreglass. Just don't have the time, place or cash for it. Someday though. Lob in a supercharged Volvo engine and then go and piss off yobbos in VW Golf GTi's. Kinda like commuting in a big city

Edit: are they shitting me? Can't even use p!ss off?

Pep

Running.
Swimming.
Cooking (I'm the best chef in the world, but please don't tell my wife otherwise she says it's her and I'm no. 2 and we argue again).
Gardening.

fat lad in lycra

used to do a bit of rallying but its too expensive so just race autocross with my modified astra

i also play in goal for 2 ice hockey teams (when im not injured) now getting to old for it, body is always in pain now

all i know is all my hobbies are very expensive

iPete

I wouldn't call it hobby due to the pain but Triathlon training at the moment

Swimming
Running
Photography
Mountain biking
Wiggle

Clank

I paintball, fettle cars, and do a lot of off-road motorsport support (setting up for the British Cross Country Championship and occasional Hill Rallies). I used to compete but it just sucked up too much time and money!

welkman

Trying to learn how to sail my international canoe, hiking, photography. I also really like taking things apart and putting them back together again.....

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EKE_38BPM

Just getting into remote control stuff. I've got one plane, I've got a half-built one to finish and thinking about getting a car.

I forsee lots of expense due to new tools and toys. Most of the nuts and bolts on the planes are TINY!

chunkytfg

motorcycles and Triathlon training.

I mechanic for a motorcycle race team in my spare time and spend many hours a week runing, swimming or cycling round the norfolk countryside trying to get myself quick enough to not embarrass myself!

merkin

I stalk people I have met via internet forums.

merkin

Yes you.

Anonymous

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Just getting into remote control stuff. I've got one plane, I've got a half-built one to finish and thinking about getting a car.

I forsee lots of expense due to new tools and toys. Most of the nuts and bolts on the planes are TINY!

I used to do that. Had remote control planes of varoius sizes from 12" (Like this) to approx 44". One that I remember was a WOT4. Also messed around with control line.

Had a few electric R/C cars and a boat as well.

bornagainroadie

Remote control helicopters, now thats an expensive hobby.

Full marks for the shear brilliance of watching them defy gravity through pure act of defiance.

Zero marks for the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you know you have lost control and all the complicated stuff in the rotor head gets mangled in a millisecond. There is a lot of energy stored in an 18 inch rotor.

Sadly no longer an active hobby, my rate of learning wasn't fast enough to make it financially viable.

Sticking to bikes and family for now.

Anonymous

BornAgainRoadie wrote:

Remote control helicopters, now thats an expensive hobby.

Full marks for the shear brilliance of watching them defy gravity through pure act of defiance.

Zero marks for the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you know you have lost control and all the complicated stuff in the rotor head gets mangled in a millisecond. There is a lot of energy stored in an 18 inch rotor.

Sadly no longer an active hobby, my rate of learning wasn't fast enough to make it financially viable.

Sticking to bikes and family for now.

I always fancied having a go at that. I wanted to mount a camera on one for aerial photography.

But I know what you mean, I worked out all the kit to lift a decent camera was well over £1200. Wasn't worth the risk.

I did get one of those simulators where you plug a controller in to the USB on your PC. That was as far as I got. Was fun though.

moonio

I do a lot of filming for audio visual performances and sometimes vj for bands..
Currently making an experimental show about natural and manmade ecosytems.

I also keep a wordpress blog about archive footage and one about the development of my garden

BelgianBeerGeek

Hunting down odd beers and sampling them. Perfecting my spaghetti bolognese. And reading PG Wodehouse novels.

cyberknight

Cycling is my hobby, it is the only escape i have from SWMBO and a precocious 4 year old :shock:

mudcow007

gardening

cooking

cider drinking

flying rc planes

fishing (sea & fresh) also just bought my self a cast net, mucho mullet for me

being outdoors..ray mears stylee

roger_merriman

MTBing and photography is my hobbies.

two don't go well together and don't do either that often.