What are your other hobbies/interests?

I’m always amazed when these threads come up how many people with families manage to fit all these other pastimes in. I’ll always choose to spend my spare time with my family.

They’re not mutually exclusive. Fortunately my kids want to join me fell running, climbing & kayaking as well as biking. That’s ace.

compete and organise motorcycle trials, compete and organice classic car trials collect motorcycles/cars take daughter all over for british fell racing championships follow scarborough football home and away.. spend every waking hour on here and i m sucessful at not getting caught with coke or hookers

Before MTBing I used to do a lot of shooting, game in season and clays competitively, and a great deal of vermin shooting. The time costs of shooting mean that while the kids were younger and needed constant ferrying around the kit more or less lay idle in the cabinet, but now they both have their own cars and I’m too injured to ride, there’s been a bit of a renaissance. My lad has treated himself to a new shotgun with a legacy from his Granny, so we’ve been clay shooting to get him ready to share my gun on the game syndicate come September,.

Technology has moved on, so I’ve now rigged the landy up for full covert IR driving using IR cameras and cheap reversing monitors, and IR scope on the rabbiting rifle, rather than lamping. Just waiting for some decent weather and then we’re off ! Also well on the way to a cheap IR hack for my lad’s air rifle, just waiting for a camera I’ve ordered and it’ll be good to go for a bit of pitch dark ratting.

Skiing
Flying Rockets
and currently avoiding multirotors, but will end up wasting money on that too

Oh, rocketry, that’s another lapsed hobby.

Struggling to think of any at the moment perhaps …

Cooking
Coffee & Tea preparation then drinking them. 😆
Cars – Japanese made only.
Knives – all sort.

Listening to music.
Playing the guitar.
A bit of cooking when I’m allowed.
Go to the gym a few times a week.
Beer and web porn (The downturn in the oil industry means I’ve had to knock the coke and hookers on the head for the time being)

Music, into 80s stuff at the moment
Gym
Walking the Dogs
Messing with the Van

On my geeky side, old railways and watching bridges and new roads being built 😳 my mate takes the mick all the time out of me…

Big hitting.
Odd bit of creative stuff like drawing, enamelling, photography.
Lapsed runner.
Usual stuff like cooking beer wine diy films reading and sex.

Running, reading, summer walking in the Alps, listening to music.

Model railways

Always surprised at the number of folk with an interest in trains on here!

Apologies for being dull, just want to ensure we’re all aware that OP is just a research/password/identity harvester. 🙂

Odd bit of creative stuff like drawing, enamelling, photography. with cutlery

😉

Always surprised at the number of folk with an interest in trains on here!

Same here. Trains are ace.

IT WASNT A SPOON 😡

I wish I had space to build a OO layout to run my collection of BR blue loco’s. It’ll have to be a hobby of the future.

Road cycling, reef keeping, RC nitro cars/trucks and skateboarding/ ripstik

@bear

I don’t get this? You’ve flagged up a couple of these in the last week or so.

What does the OP get from it? Am I in danger of losing something by replying 😳

Hmmmm, odd second post from a new member….

I play badminton. I do all my own car maintenance and have renovated several in the past.
Currently I’m renovating this sadly neglected 1954 Colchester Student lathe

Have one of those in blue at work fruitbat 😀

Flying kites, single line and Revolution

When I’m not cycling, I may sometimes be found coaching cycling 😳

Oh and I can ride a Ripstik too 😀 – learnt aged 45, never looked back (or down)

Apologies for being dull, just want to ensure we’re all aware that OP is just a research/password/identity harvester.

Umm I’m definitely not a “research/password/identity harvester”.

Hmmmm, odd second post from a new member….

Also not sure why this is an odd second post? Please let me know what a normal second post would be.

Second posts these days tend to be either;

I’m a newbie – should I buy the new carbon or aluminium Santa Cruz?

Why can’t we just shoot poor people? They make my skin crawl.

Or

Hora – he’s not really real is he?

I like gardening, fishing, cameras, guitars, Lego and deliberately dropping packets of crackers in the supermarket, then putting them back on the shelf.

S’all anarchy, innit?

Just moved from New Mexico (great MTB) to Southeast Washington State (not so good MTB in close proximity in this part of the state), so am forced to realign primary hobby to kayaking and making MTB second I guess.
Pot is legal in Washington, so I guess I could make a hobby of that 😀

Read a lot, drink a bit, hike a bit.

I recently read a biography of a pioneering woman aviator which was clear that “swearing” and “wearing trousers” were hobbies, so I’m having those also.

Sleeping and jerking off definitely aren’t hobbies, but are quite time-consuming…. 🙂

My other hobbies include putting off DIY jobs for another weekend & 3y/o boy wrestling.
Glad to know that I’m not the only one who finds it pleasing to see a good bridge or new road being built. I also like demolition. 😀
Come to think of it , I quite like pottering around in the garden too.

3 years ago when this was asked I could answer “semi-pro football and cricket to a good standard too”, my answer is now, “err, just cycling, and not even mountain biking either, road and occasional CX”.

Football has fallen away due to a couple of teams I played for folding and cricket was knocked on the head as spending 8 hours in a field every Saturday of the summer just wasn’t that appealing any more.

I do cook a lot though, often for pleasure, not sure if that counts.

I wish I had space to build a OO layout to run my collection of BR blue loco’s. It’ll have to be a hobby of the future.

N gauge is your friend!

Free time slowwwlly has been taken over by Geocaching. Blimey its addictive! Just started roping up and getting up trees to find tree based caches too 😀

TM

Running as an alternate exercise, playing both Xbox and guitar badly, and for a bit of intellectual stimulus I “study” (in a sort of Victorian Parson sort of way) paleoanthropology

There are jokes about salhelanthropus and ardipithicus that has them rolling in the aisles, but I’ll spare you

Art, painting and painters.
Oil painting (primarily tonalist and impressionist landscapes)
Photography/fine art printing
Sustainable/renewable tech
Lightweight camping
Travel/touring (bike, foot, train, bus, hitch, even late-night Google Street-View on the tablet when funds/circumstances prohibit physical travel)
Volunteering
Conservation
Zoology/wildlife study and observation
Philosophy/Psychology
Zen Buddhism
Music (making and listening)
Kayaking
Cooking
Walking (now curtailed by disability yet still enjoy short walks in life and long-ones in dreams)
Excercising on Kangoo-Jumps
Swimming, both wild and pool laps

Where to start?

I do a bit of FT/R and clay shooting when I have time, do a bit of work for the Army when I don’t. I do a fair bit of Crossfit during the week, but other than that, not much. Maybe some kayaking now and then and some camping on the odd weekend.

taking photos of places that I shouldn’t be in
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mhampshire/albums

Powerlifting.
Drinking.

Video games, tabletop roleplaying games, (not) making model kits. I like aviation museums and air shows too. I have always listened to music a lot and I go to quite a few gigs by some peoples’ standards. I read quite a bit, generally sci-fi and fantasy. As I’m 6’3″ tall I in total definitely qualify as a big geek.

Sofaking – those photos are stunning! 😮

My other interests are music – mainly psytrance and techno and I enjoy reading.
I play guitar and mix on CDJs sporadically. (Read that as – hardly ever these days!)

Working on my cars, hanging out with my buddies at the local diner, chatting to Mrs Cunningham…no wait, that’s the Fonz.

old cars
thinking about doing woodwork
thinking about travelling

I know times ticking, but lack of decent health and cash are what I need to sort out first

Sofaking – those photos are stunning!

Agreed!

I was into photography for a while, and that was the sort of thing I aspired to…I just couldn’t set aside the time and effort to find and go to places to photograph.

Sofaking, you should publish a coffee table book or something.