apart from parenting, Tropical fish, bike fiddling, general shed pottering, garden tidying, trying to catch up on Homeland/The Wire/Breaking Bad etc and squirreling around the internet for VW camper van parts..

Just started studying for my amateur radio license and listening to shortwave radio from around the world.

You could also learn to program computers – check out http://www.codeacademy.com if that interests you.

Perfect evening hobby that keeps me out from under the wife’s feet!

Cheers

Danny B

Hands, elbows, knees and shins… my kids love it too.

I accepted a few years ago that there’s going to be an epic model railway layout in my future. Now it’s just a case of resisting for as long as possible.

Don’t worry, it can just as out of hand as MTBing… the expansino the detail, the nicheness, the n+1… its all there…

Building lights for night riding

Building lights for night riding

This ^.

And I’m a bit into leather. Ahem.

Gardening
Playing violin (reasonably well)
Playing Bass (extremely badly)
Reading (fiction & non-fiction)
Natural History
Cat tormenting (entirely consensual)
Arguing on the internet
Cryptic crosswords
Drinking
Smoking
Sleeping

EDIT – I wouldn’t recommend the smoking part

Having two young kids tends to eat up most of my time, but given a half hour off…

Summer – Reading in the garden with a cold drink.

Winter – Playing with these

Bits in carbon, like this mud guard:

Another Finn sailor here and crossfit a couple of times a week. Home time is spent looking after kids, housework and tv I’m afraid. Not much free time to be honest.

In the small amount of time I get between working and cycling I twang guitar, not fantastically well , but I enjoy it.