No bikes allowed!

**Charlie** · 14th March 2006, 13:15

Had thought about this before and Dawnrazor's thread on great books has sparked these 2 questions:

1) What hobbies and interests do you have EXCLUDING your passion for bikes?

2) And do you love materilistic toys? If you had an unlimited budget to spend on ONE item EXCLUDING a bike - what would you buy?

I'd have to answer:

1) Sport - watching or playing. I love hockey and play all year round.

2) My big spend... (is kinda cheating as it's more than one item)... a Tim- the-Tool-man-Taylor garage/workshop! I love powertools and DIY but lack anything that resembles a garage at the mo. I dont want some battery power drill though. Has to be meaty!
Then I guess I'd need a shitter of a house or car to pull to bits....

**The_Dover** · 14th March 2006, 13:21

1) Music and sport. I love playing the guitar and drums.

2)A fully furnished studio with a shite load of instruments and recording gear (and preferably someone who knows how to operate it!)

**skelstar** · 14th March 2006, 13:27

Well its in my profile, but love Apple Macs and doing web-dev stuff, so I would say a full-on Mac G5 setup would be sweet. I love gadgets full-stop so PSP's, DVRs etc are the go too. Thanks for asking.

**SimJen** · 14th March 2006, 13:45

1. Motorsport involving bikes, Minimoto, Web-dev stuff, making shit and RC Helis.

2. My big spend would be following the Motogp guys around for a year, country to country & hanging with one of the teams

**Finn** · 14th March 2006, 13:51

I'm a bit of a car nut and spend far too much on ridiculous cars. Am about to do it again. In fact if it has a motor, I want it. I just counted my total garage horse power...

SUV 290hp
Car 320hp (soon 350 hp)
CBR 170hp (crank)
CRF 40hp
TR50 5hp
Boat 240hp
Leaf Blower 1hp
Generator 3hp

Total 1069 Hp. Fuck that's ridiculous. Eat your heart out Greenpeace.

**N4CR** · 14th March 2006, 13:56

Music, Hifi, Overclocking/computery crap, Things that go, Lasers, Pyro stuff and making Texmo his larrtays.

Big spend. Hrmm... something geeky like a small movie theatre or a supercomputer. Something that would be fun to tinker with. A private railway/ roadway would be cool too

**Charlie** · 14th March 2006, 13:56

Originally Posted by Finn

...Leaf Blower 1hp

Cute. I love extravagant power tools! I chopped firewood at a guys place a few weeks back, wasnt like the ol' days. He has toys for everything!
We pulled the tree down with a wee mini digger. Chain-sawed it into rings. Carted the rings up onto the driveway in the trailer on the back of the 4 wheeler. Split the wood on the hydraulic splitter, then cleaned up with the multcher!
Hardly raised a sweat!!

**Grahameeboy** · 14th March 2006, 14:01

Kayaking
Gym
Mountain Biking
Music....from Opera to Acid Jazz, anything that sounds good.
Catching up with mates.
Church

Biggest spend if I could..............not materialistic.....cannot think of anything

**Finn** · 14th March 2006, 14:05

Originally Posted by Charlie

Cute. I love extravagant power tools! I chopped firewood at a guys place a few weeks back, wasnt like the ol' days. He has toys for everything!
We pulled the tree down with a wee mini digger. Chain-sawed it into rings. Carted the rings up onto the driveway in the trailer on the back of the 4 wheeler. Split the wood on the hydraulic splitter, then cleaned up with the multcher!
Hardly raised a sweat!!

STOP!!! I getting aroused.

I forgot to include my chainsaw (2hp?) and the generator (5hp)

**Colapop** · 14th March 2006, 14:27

I'm a gym junkie. My big goal for this year is going to be conpeting at the NABBA show in Wellington (September). Other than that I coach rugby at Wellington college - don't care what grade. I have competed in (and won) the Flugatag comp. last held in Wgtn and the Trolley GP in Auckland. I really enjoy making stuff. My old man was a qualified mechanic turned qualified builder, so making stuff is in the blood.

Big spend? Hmmm ... Bikes, Cars, House,.... If I had an unlimited budget I'd build my own house that I've designed. Split level, vista's, deck+spa, 3 car garage, bike garage and workshop (fully kitted out - hydraulic lift and all) not much really

**Grahameeboy** · 14th March 2006, 14:32

Originally Posted by Finn

STOP!!! I getting aroused.

I forgot to include my chainsaw (2hp?) and the generator (5hp)

Once is quite enough Mr Finny

**Fishy** · 14th March 2006, 14:36

I can be a bit of an outdoor freak at times...

Camping, Tramping, Kayaking, Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, Shooting, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing and gym training

If I had the cash I would own and operate the country's most successful charter hunting and fishing company (Game and general saltwater).

**WRT** · 14th March 2006, 14:40

1) Watersports (surfing, diving, sailing, kayaking, fishing, etc), DJ'ing, cars, hometheatre, travel.

2) Depends who's coin I'm doing the spend on. If it was mine, then probably a jetski or something would be high up on the list for my next big splurge. Followed in order (as I get more money) by a new car, a holiday, then a projector.

However, if its someone elses unlimited coin to spend on one hobby, I'd be going for a studio, sound proofed and set up with couple of techie mk5G's with ortophones, an A&H Xone 92, the mac-daddy computer set up to record and master, plus a Proel rig with bass bins for africa, sufficient shelving to store a couple of thousand recs plus the budget to fill said shelves with fresh choons.

That'd just about do me, I reckon.

*sigh*