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Not necessarily bike related, but if you were to have a large wad of cash dumped on your doorstep, what would you use it for (this is NOT reality, so no 'paying off mortgage etc!)
Mine would be:
1-buy a barn and do it up as a pimp house
2-buy a van and self convert it into a family camper (ideally with the son, but at 1 he'd be a danger more of a help..!)
3-have a steel road frame built for me, and kit it out (ala 'ride of my life')
4-learn to weld, build an aerodynamic trailer, and cycle LEJOG unsupported (take water, food, everything!), probably in conjunction with 3..
DrP
Not a dream project by any stretch, but I have a plan for a decent shed that I want to put into action
I'd love to build my own house. We thought about doing it when we bought our current place but couldn't find land in the right place. With enough money, finding the right place wouldn't be a problem.
I'd buy some bikes but I'd be more interested in where I road them than what they were. I'd love to do some epic touring rides, across the USA, ride to China, that sort of thing.
Well I am working on a dream project right now which is publishing my book. This has been something I have wanted to do for years 🙂
If I had a wad of cash I'd pay someone to do the formatting, front cover and do a ton load of advertising. I am also in a world of pain trying to learn how to get it on to the kindle, so I would pay someone to do that too.
As it stands, I reckon I will sell a few hundred copies maybe without all that cash, but then all it takes is a few good reviews and word of mouth kicks in and you never know. Assuming you have a good book of course!
I'd like to get my big bike licence and then restore a few bikes, maybe a nice mv agusta, Norton and ducati.
Campervan for me... Something sensibly sized, not too big, not too small, but fitted out inside just exactly how I want it. Yeah, that'd do. And then part 2 of the project, bum around the UK and maybe further riding bikes til my legs fall off.
I've been planning a total nuts-n-bolts rebuild of my motorbike for about 3 years, bit more engine work, new custom bodywork, ditch another 5-10 kilos off it but I've never been able to find the time and the money at the same time. Mountain bikes have taken over a bit now though so I'm not sure that'll ever happen, at least not like I'd like to do it.
Good post btw!
Underground 'eco'[url= http://www.malcolmwells.com/designs.html ]Malccolm Wells home[/url] - with light wells passive heating and a central pool
( but no sharks with lasers)
A decent mission to Mars specifically to look for signs of extant life. Cost a few bankers bonuses tho.
i'd tour the Scottish coast, looking for the perfect seaside cottage. then i'd buy it and do a real life monty halls adventure, minus the film crew.
make a film
got a couple which we're hoping to do in the next few years
1. taking our camper on a big trip, iceland via shetland and faroes currently fave, following by a trip to the arctic circle in norway or a tour of spain. got to build the interior first after ripping out what was in it at the weekend 😀 (and for anyone thinking of getting one i definitely recommend it!)
2. ride to africa - england, france, spain then straight of gibraltar ferry to morocco possibly on bikes which we'd donate to some charity over there (after a good service of course!)
3. ride to asia somehow maybe a bit further off that one
4. maybe buy a bigger house for kids n stuff (well thats the line when the missus asks - actually i just want a garage!)
You cant have that one davidrussell, thats my dream!
and to open a wildlife watching holiday company on the Scottish west coast too.
Buy a big lump of forest ( thanks Dave) build a trail centre a la whister.....
Buy a big house with a bike barn two of each bike one with wet weather tyres one with dry tyres,
Learn how to really ride my bike!!!
Ive done lots of my "dreams" already:
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3 month camping cycle tour
Months touring in campervan with family
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but now Im not sure what's next. Taking a bit of time to take stock I think. Ive always wanted to walk across Europe, but now with two little'uns and the wife's business taking time it's time to be a bit more down to earth 🙂
Green oak framed straw bale large house in quite a few acres with trails,
Give it a couple of years and you'll be able to ride Loco Trails in the South west 😉
move and live in scotland...
move and live in scotland...
WHY? when you have the whole of France to chose from?
EDIT: OK probably wrong question. Maybe you can only work in Paris and I can see why you might not want to stay there, but the Massif? The Pyrenees? Alps? Food? Wine? Commune? Terroir? Climate? Got to be better than Scotland....
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Atacama here I come 😀 You did say "dream" projects....
1) Get a motorbike license
2) Get a 2nd gen VW Scirocco
3) Direct films.
The first is hopefully going to happen this year if I get my arse in gear, the second might happen if insurance goes down a bit, the third will never happen, sadly.
i would say buying a custom made titanium mountain bike ht (with top of the line components fitted to it) the same for a titanium road bike.also to buy a few really nice guitars and amps/effects.oh and give some of the money to my friends and charities.that would be jim dandy 🙂 p.s to see and ride some of this planet (especially japan/china) and i would kick my depression into touch once and for all so i could achieve these things for real. 😀
Ride Peru,
Ride Japan,
Ride coast-to-coast USA on my road bike,
Restore a 1970 Chevelle SS,
Get totally ripped! 🙄
I forsee maybe two of those happening if I'm lucky...
Build a factory to produce widgets ...
I would travel and look for undiscovered species of spiders, mainly theraphosid (tarantulas) but would be happy with all arachnids really. I would also help set up preservation plans to try and stop them becoming extinct. I would take my time to make sure I could get lots of historical and family time along the way, nothing rushed.
Set up an Orphanage
5 - sell a photograph THIS YEAR...
This one's a bit of fun, and I'm not even talking about making a significant amount, but I just want to know someone wants to buy one of my pictures!
DrP
fix the car
pump up my bike
sort out the singlespeed
not exactly exciting but i'd take some time off from the business and do absolutly nowt!!! i can imagine it now, absolute bliss.
Realistic - Fit a woodburning / multifuel stove to our current house.
Unlikely - Design and build a large house on a plot somewhere on the Argyll coast.
Impossible - Stop dreaming my life away on the internet.
so many things!
I'd love to buy a suitable house then get an oak barn extension added onto it for all my bikes
A campervan
My dad had a couple of really beautiful steel lugged road bikes in the 80s with record. I sold them a few years after he died to found my mtb habit ( i was 15) I would love to buy and restore a vintage road frame just as his bikes were, no new bits at all.
I'd love to have the time and money to train for a really epic race or trek, maybe in the Arctic or similar (i don't like hot countries!)
By a lathe, and perhaps a couple of other CNC machines, and put some of my mad ideas into action.
Got to be better than Scotland....
Well don't think so. I think you really need to go up there. People are amazing, friendly, warm and the land itself is just mind blowing.
But due to family commitment it look like I am stuck up in the south east.
Build a houae
go on a long bike tour
open a skatepark. The last one is one I've always wanted to do, even though I'm old and don't ride very often it's still one of the dream things I'd like to do.
Walk the south-west coast path in one go.
Buy and restore a Romany caravan.
Own a sailing boat again.
Restore a medieval house.
Cant see any of them happening at the moment though!
Design and build a house.
4X4 and a Kimberley Karavan and drive around the world, with the bikes and dog of course.
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1. Get a different job, but one that pays as well as my current one.
2. Buy a rural house with land to raise pigs.
3. Make money writing fiction and/or screenplays.
project wise,
mine would probably be restoring my dad's e type Jag,
it was the only thing that he bought for himself in his life,
it languishing in the garage untouched for over 20 years now.
but travel would be good. ride across canada
Dream project?
Learn how to program and do something awesome with it.
Buy a house that the wife and I can live in for a very long time.
Does having kids count as a project?
+1 for Build my house (in the hills around Valencia)
Simple open plan glass box on a sloping site with a separate guest room and garage connected with walkways
Would be sustainable (in operation) so I wouldn't have to bother connecting it to the Mains.
Well don't think so. I think you really need to go up there.
been plenty of times. I'm half scottish (not my best half, obviously)
I'll trade you my heritage for yours! Got any saucy female cousins in Aude by any chance?
If I were to build another house it would definitely be off grid. Id love to develop a hydrogen based fuel storage and fuel cell system, charged by renewables like PV and CHP biomass.
Build a house
Have a place to clean bikes inside
Do more cycle touring
Ride on the moon
With a bit of luck and a lot of planning some of these should be within reach.
Achievable, useful, life enchancing stuff:
Install ensuite & mega-blokey-shed, re-turf lawn, PBP, huge bike trip, win sxc vets.
Dream/not nec. achievable stuff:
quit job & spend time with ailing relative, retrain to do a meaningful job, get married, have kids.
Gonna buy a little dinghy and cal her dignity
On a serious note, build a house with all sorts of Eco-tech, build a track car and work less
build a VW jetta mkII with r36 and 4wd.
custom steel bikes. - road, cross, fixed SS. build a superlight ti race 29er.
a big garage /workshop (must be heated) - one for bikes - one for cars. bike one to have full set of park tools on a shadow board. I'd like the bike on on top the car one (firemans pole inside) with a big ramp you could ride down out of the top one.
do some cycle touring. scotland, america & europe. would love to the great divide. follow le tour in a campervan.
buy a small place in paris.
build a specific bike event camper (this one starts tommorrow) however it might not be 'money no object' 😀
Build a house.
Write a best selling novel.
I've always wanted to cycle to Spain and get the ferry back. I know its achievable but I have never got my arse or leave in gear to do it.
Unachievable
Would probably involve a large yacht and sailing around the med 🙂
highly recommended rich 🙂
Stoner which the yacht or riding to Spain?
Well sorry no stoner... On a more achievable dream I'd like to get out of joblesstrackworld. ASAP indeed.
landlubber am I.
We actually rode the other way - ferry to Santander, turn right, cycle to fisterra, turn around then back across spain and up through france to the channel and home.
Probably all just a dream but i'd like to (in no specific order)
Renovate a listed building/build my house from a plot of land
Have my own veg garden/chickens and be as self sustaining as possible
Live abroad
Cycle/tour/run round the world/to various destinations (my grandpa has sailed round the world several times and i fancy the idea of sailing combined with touring/running)
Re-train as a physio/massage therapist/personal trainrer
Become a yoga teacher and teach yoga somewhere for a while/go on a year long yoga retreat
Ride the TdF etape
Run a sub 3 hour marathon
I cant understand the appeal of the Etape its sounds horrendous to me! Maybe if I was a lot fitter but I don't want to be [i]that[/i] fit!
Keep moving forward until it stops, basically....
London to Cape Town Overland in a 110 Land Rover with a bike, roof tent and a canoe on the roof and all the time in world.
Sail back.
Doable and probable:
* Quebrantahuesos (Spanish road sportive)
* Parachute jump
Doable and possible:
* Etape du Tour
Doable though improbable:
* Cycle down through France to Madrid
* Learn to fly
Highly improbable:
* Learn to fly and get own plane
* Learn to fly a helicopter
* Build own house would be cool
Tiger that sounds epic
Write something interesting that people want to read.
Become a monk.
to do whatever the **** I want
one phone call away from being able to live the dream....
@deep_ river its the early bird who'll catch the worm for this one then 🙂
If i get there and you've already moved in then get a beer in the cooler for me?
1) compete in and finish the [url= http://mongolrally.theadventurists.com/ ]Mongol Rally[/url]
2) learn to sail and get me a yacht
3) do a V8 engine transplant into a [url=
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4) build a complete AC Cobra replica, probably a [url= http://www.gdcars.com/ ]Gardner Douglas[/url]
5) 5 kids, with twins included
Probably achievable -
make [url= http://www.lovatstoves.com ]this[/url] my full time job by next winter and make enough money to have asummer holiday next year, maybe doing that tandem trip to Dutchland with the wife we have been talking about for a few years.
Proper dream - Tigers one sounds about right, then ride the divide, get a paramotor AND have the time to fly it.
be financially secure enough to give my car to a garage when it goes wrong rather than having to do it myself.Bored of grubby ball joints and things now.
Run a sub 3 hour marathon
If you are a girl a bit more difficult for a bloke no problem.
My list:
Complete the Bob Graham round in under 24hrs
Win a regional Vets medal!
buy small forest, build off grid house,
learn to weld and build cool steel frames....
oh and stop wasting so much time on the freaking internet....
i'd also like to visit every MBA bothy in Scotland and make sure they have enough cash to keep them in good order. I've only visited a few but I am amazed at the locations and the quality of some of them. I love thinking about the history some of these wee places must have witnessed.
Some very interesting and inspiring dreams on this thread. I hope many of you get somewhere towards achieving them. 🙂
I'd buy a big old ramshackle house, do it up in a simple style and let homeless people stay there for free. Then do a few more.
I'd build my own house somewhere, with an effing great big workshop and learn how to restore old cars: Minis, VWs etc. I could afford to screw up the welding! One would be a bay window WV Camper and I'd put a bloody great big aircooled engine in it, tune the nuts off it, then go touring wherever I felt like.
I'd open a cafe and do the best breakfasts and lunches in the country, just to show people how it's done. And I'd pay the staff very well.
i want to make a really good klingon costume
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also buy a mountain stick a chairlift on it and build my own world class dh park on it
i'd tour the Scottish coast, looking for the perfect seaside cottage.
I know a fairly remote island which where there are 3 or 4 derilict cottages. They are on a cliff with views of other cliffs, a light house and a bay frequented by whales and dolphins. Do them up, fit conservatories, keep one and let the rest as holiday cottages. 3 or 4 miles up a dirt track, 2 ferry rides from the mainland
I'd do the traditional boat building course at the national boat-building academy in Lyme Regis.
Then buy a smallholding near the sea and mountains. And build boats. Slowly.
Build my own house on my own land, overlooking a nice landscape involving a loch / sea , overlooked by no-one, having the horses in a field outside.
Build my own road frame.
Stick a Jag V12 in a land rover defender / RR classic
Chill out, relax and just enjoy life.
Just ticked one:
just finishing building my own house, all on my tod. Its a beauty, green oak frame and big thick hemp walls, in a nice quiet part of cornwall, overlooking the sea (sounds amazing now im writing it, you kind of forget!) It is a bitch though, especially on your own and not the dream you may think it would be. Still id do it all again tomorrow without a second thought.
and the next:
Rent the shiny new house out and find a real cheap wreck in the Pyrenees to play around with for a year or two.
and the big dream:
to finish the place in the mountains and then never have to work again, bumming around between the pyrenees and cornwall, with some wealthy benefactor providing me with a comfy income, for going out to play every day!
"I hope many of you get somewhere towards achieving them."
You too.
Frankly, I've not fully got over Beagle-2. Outlandish as it sounds, I think there is a very good chance that I will get to help develop a decent and successful mission to Mars that finds the evidence of life there. I need to do this to give meaning to my previous attempt.
Seems like I've been living the dream. I built my dream house. I have a job that continues to inspire and motivate me. I have a awesome garage. I've restored vintage and classic cars, travelled widely and am pretty content. I'm going to ride across the States in June.
The OP requested fantasy dream projects. I'd like to set up an arts and trail centre in rural Oregon. Possibly around Oakridge. A hub style cafe and studio where arty bikey folks could hang out.
Oakridge, because its within a half hour ride of the McCredie hot springs
'Just' to have a small apartment in southern Tuscany (one day maybe), ride day in day out when I wanted (probably never) and build this stitch and glue canoe I have plans/materials for (this summer, hopefully!).
If I suddenly became blessed in hands on engineering and craftsmanship:
build a house
build a bike (weld and all) and restore a TVR, Lancia or Lotus
Convert a 1990 1.0L Rover Metro City-X into a teleportation machine.