Previous hobby before biking

[Tigadee]

Before entering ["It's a trap!"] the world of bikes, one hobby I enjoyed for a year was painting... Nerf guns. I enjoyed turning gaudy orange, yellow and red toys into something that looked more convincing and could possibly be used on a movie set [at least for wide shots and not close-ups anyway].

I'd like to share a video slideshow of the Nerfs I'd painted. If you're laughing, then click away from here, I understand. If you enjoy it, then thanks. :msn-wink:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9XL5FDfPV8&feature=plcp

[JimO]

like most people my age we got into bikes because they were a cheap mode of transport in the 70s, nearly every young feller i knew had a road legal trail bike

[Berries]

like most people my age we got into bikes because they were a cheap mode of transport in the 70s, nearly every young feller i knew had a road legal trail bike
I got in to them for the buzz when I got my first real pay packet in the late 80's. Have had plenty of hobbies since them, just never thought of riding as one.

[Oakie]

Hobbies? Not really but I did enjoy tying trout flies when living in Twizel ... then moved th Chch and got into biking. Haven't touched my fly rod for 10 years now. Very sad. Love to get back into fly fishing but haven't had the time to explore the water.

[gijoe1313]

Heheh, I like the Tau rifle you did. My hobbies are many and varied, suffice to say I am an avid Warhammer 40K gamer and everything that being a modeller entails!

But bikes definitely have that certain ring-a-ding-ding that touches my funny bone in all the right ways!

[ellipsis]

...I gave up a passion for fishing when I caught the fish I spent twenty years chasing and throwing untold thousands at ...bikes have never been a hobby...motorcycles are just like daylight to some...you wake up every morning and it's there...my missus wishes I had a hobby...

[mashman]

I mixed football and drinking... and on the odd occasion tripped balls for the night.

[James Deuce]

I don't think he was asking what your previous hobby was. Just sharing his.

Which means I know who to see when I get the Ural with Sidecar and want to mount of them Nerf machine guns on it.

[Blackbird]

Used to competitively sail catamarans (and model aircraft in my teens - real anorak:facepalm:) but riding bikes was the thing I always came back to. Next year, I'll have been riding bikes for 50 years apart from a short gap when I got married.... Real Old Fart status :laugh:

[mashman]

I don't think he was asking what your previous hobby was. Just sharing his.

Which means I know who to see when I get the Ural with Sidecar and want to mount of them Nerf machine guns on it.

Oh. Right. There was no poll attached so I assumed that it was a free for all. My bad. Apologies to the OP... fuckin freak.

[fuknK1W1]

Teenage masturbation...:violin:

[ellipsis]

...was that a song...

[fuknK1W1]

...was that a song...
Nah it was a hobby:facepalm:

[Tigadee]

Oh. Right. There was no poll attached so I assumed that it was a free for all. My bad. Apologies to the OP... fuckin freak.

JD got it right, but no worries, share all you want...

BTW, I didn't mean to imply that motorbiking was a hobby, just that this was something I did that occupied my time. Being on my motorbike is more a passion, a journey, an experience... Ommmmmm-ommmmmmmm

[neels]

suffice to say I am an avid Warhammer 40K gamer and everything
So you spend as much time as my son tucked away painting models then, a new army seems to be quite a time consuming thing, fortunately I've got him into riding bikes as well so he's not a complete geek. And my DRZ400 is restricted licence legal for him to ride now :2thumbsup

I used to ride my collection of pushbikes before I got seriously into motorbiking, I really should get back into that lest i become even more fat and lazy than I currently am, you know how far you've slid when you look at a hill you could easily ride a couple of years ago and decide nah fuck it too hard I'll have a beer instead.

[Gremlin]

So you spend as much time as my son tucked away painting models then,
Nah, he currently paints and sands his house instead... he calls it renovating or something, but won't let me destroy anything.

Not exactly a hobby, I cycled previously (inc secondary schools team time trialling), then found engines could do the work for me while I sat there. Without the training regime I got fat, so I sold the bicycles and got stuck into motorcycling... :yes:

[neels]

Nah, he currently paints and sands his house instead... he calls it renovating or something, but won't let me destroy anything.
If i'd known of your interest I would have invited you the destroying at my house, BTW I call it renovating too, weather forecast is crap so I might have to take the big hammer to some gib tomorrow though.....

[mashman]

JD got it right, but no worries, share all you want...

BTW, I didn't mean to imply that motorbiking was a hobby, just that this was something I did that occupied my time. Being on my motorbike is more a passion, a journey, an experience... Ommmmmm-ommmmmmmm

I had no idea people did that kinda stuff. They look pretty fuckin cool, almost lifelike :blink:. Are you in the camp where they should never be fired after finishing and should be encased in bulletproof glass in case the cat knocks them off the custom made dresser?

[Road kill]

Nerf guns look good,,what do they usually look like ?

Don't actually know what a Nerf gun or what a nerf is,or what they taste like,,but all hobys are cool.

I collect spark plugs,I've been fishing since I was 6 years old,hunting since about 13 or 14.

Bikes,,my Dad and all my uncles had bikes,my 3 brothers have bikes,two of brother in laws have bikes.

My Grandfather drove a Cob an Co stage coach in North land,,My Dad was a Truckie,one of the younger brothers is as well.

I'm a Truck driving,Fish catching ,Deer slayin',,New Zealand Bikie.

I also collect spark plugs.

[Road kill]

...I gave up a passion for fishing when I caught the fish I spent twenty years chasing and throwing untold thousands at ...bikes have never been a hobby...motorcycles are just like daylight to some...you wake up every morning and it's there...my missus wishes I had a hobby...

Tell us about this fish.

I stopped hunting after shooting a Whitetail on Stewart island with my Longbow.
Dreamt of doing that for 35 years,but once I'd finally done it,all my desire for hunting/killing vanished.

So now the fish are getting it harder:2thumbsup

[meteor]

Before I rode I had a spotless house, nice paint, clean tidy garden and used to have money to go out to shows and dinner regularly... Would I change anything?

[Grubber]

Sports was and still is my hobby.
Build plenty of plastic models in my spare time, a bit of hunting, a bit of clay bird shooting, a bit of sport, a bit of die cast collection, oh hell, a bit of everything really.
bikes are my passion and have been for 40 years. Still race one and still love going fast. :2thumbsup
Not on the road of coarse (just in case Katman is reading this):calm:

[FJRider]

What is this ... before motorbikes ... ???? there were other things to do .. ??? :wacko:

[ellipsis]

Tell us about this fish.

I stopped hunting after shooting a Whitetail on Stewart island with my Longbow.
Dreamt of doing that for 35 years,but once I'd finally done it,all my desire for hunting/killing vanished.

So now the fish are getting it harder:2thumbsup

...my quest for a marlin started after my quest for a big kingi was achieved...it became an obsession...I went on Pacific Island trips with experienced groups and never got one, I bummed around the far north, Whangaroa way at different times...It was a cool quest and when I got invited to be in a team at the Houhora One Base competition, it all came true...I hooked up on two..one on 24kg gear, it busted off then I hooked up on 37kg gear...battled it forever it seems...when it settled down and I had it 50.meters astern and it did its final jump I realised I couldn't kill it and get my sought after photo...I tagged and released it...my dream was over and I felt good that I'd done it, but it was over...still have close to 5 grands worth of rods, reels and shiny bits, but they just sit in the shed...funny old life...stopped killing warm blooded things years ago...apart from possums, rats and mice and the odd magpie...

[Woodman]

Good thread. Nerf guns are interesting.

My "hobby" was good ol rugger. The year had two seasons, rugby season and the off season. Still don't know the order of the four we have now,seriously. Played last game just before turning 40, walked off with a fistfull of taped up dislocated fingers, sat on the sideline and had a beer and decided that that was enough. Mrs Woodman would just shake her head during the last few seasons when I had to literally fall out of bed on a Sunday morning and use furniture to help myself to my feet. The off season did involve a bit of motorbikin so bikes have always beeen there really.

Spose my hobby now is restoring my Benelli, and riding, always riding.

[The Lone Rider]

I bet all the ones that look like they belong in Halo would still illicit some emergency phone call from some noob, resulting in an armed offenders incident.


I used to, and still do, write and record music. And I now collect bottles of "craft" beer. Emptied before displayed of course.


As a kid, I collected baseball cards, stamps, star wars memorabilia, and did woodworking.

[bogan]

Lot of effort gone into them!


Teenage masturbation...:violin:

Well I just hope all those teenagers can manage without you now that you have motorcycles.

[SPman]

Bikes.......

Hobby???????????

I have hobbies...and I ride bikes......I've never considered it a hobby....:confused:

It's just something you do!



What a strange person........................:no:

[FJRider]

I did have an interest in first aid ... in my early childhood .... :niceone:

But after my riding skills improved .... I grew out of it ... :innocent:

[Laava]

I stopped hunting after shooting a Whitetail on Stewart island with my Longbow.


You must be a fuckin good shot! We usually just smoosh em under our jandals.

[Laava]

Teenage masturbation...:violin:

Does me good!
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[FJRider]

You must be a fuckin good shot! We usually just smoosh em under our jandals.

Them spiders get pretty darn big on the island ... :msn-wink:

[Brett]

I had many many hobbies prior to bikes, and still have many hobbies today. Diving, Hunting, Spear Fishing, Photography, CQC hand-to-hand training, bushcraft and bush survival, and I spend a huge amount of my remaining free time learning about new stuff across a wide range of genre's - these are the main ones.

[Laava]

I was a bottom inspector. Voluntary tho.

[Road kill]

You must be a fuckin good shot! We usually just smoosh em under our jandals.

A long list of lesser stuff but the two biggies that finished it all.
08 South Pacific 3D Recurve Barebow Champion.
09 New Zealand senior 3D Recurve Barebow Champion.

Sambar,Sika,Red,Fallow,Whitetail,Rusa.
All with either Recurve or Longbow,was a bit of an obsession for a while,,,from 1973 til 2010.

Plus I collect spark plugs.

Do you know the history of the modern spark plug and how Champion ripped off AC Delco for the patent on the plugs we all use today ?

No ?,,,,some other time huh:yawn::laugh: