Previous hobby before biking

**Gremlin** · 20th October 2012, 00:18

Originally Posted by neels

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...

**neels** · 20th October 2012, 00:25

Originally Posted by Gremlin

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** · 20th October 2012, 00:37

Originally Posted by Tigadee

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

. 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** · 20th October 2012, 07:34

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** · 20th October 2012, 07:41

Originally Posted by 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...

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

**meteor** · 20th October 2012, 07:56

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** · 20th October 2012, 08:03

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.

Not on the road of coarse (just in case Katman is reading this)

**FJRider** · 20th October 2012, 08:11

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

**ellipsis** · 20th October 2012, 08:26

Originally Posted by Road kill

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

...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** · 20th October 2012, 08:50

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** · 20th October 2012, 10:18

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.