Show us your "other" hobbies in pictures!

[Ironbar]

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Making my sweet honey booboo

Yum!

 

[Rickenbacher39]

Hi again,

I spotted this thread so I thought I'd jump in here for a moment.

I have two hobbies (that don't involve my wife or our pooches)

One is motorcycles.
Since my health is back again I can start riding and boy have I missed it.
Did not ride at all since Oct. of 2015. I think my bike hates me.
It's a 2006 Harley Heritage. I love this bike.



The other hobby is; I play lap steel guitar.......well, sort of.
I also buy old ones that no longer play or are beat to death and restore them.
The first one I did was a 1939 Rickenbacher Silver Hawaiian NS100. That explains my user name.



It now looks great and plays beautifully......and it's older than I am. It's a miracle...........

Another is a 1944 Electromuse. This poor thing was a mess but it looks ok and plays well now.



So that's about it.
When I am not playing with my pooches or hiding from my wife I am in the garage working
on a guitar or up in my music room playing.
The bike is also going to get attention. I took my first ride in over a year last week.
Still can't wipe the stupid grin off my face....

 

[Mattmac]

Well my main hobby would probably be brazian jiu jitsu. The wife probably thinks I spend way too much time at the gym but I'd be there all day every day if I didn't have to work...

And then I guess that brings me to number two.... not sure if it can classify as a hobby if it's my job too but working on an riding motorcycles.

Not sure if it counts since I get paid for it but I still love it.

 

[jlhopwo]

I mainly ride road. I'm interested in cyclocross and track. There is a velodrome close to my house in SW called Alpenrose Alpenrose Velodrome | Track racing for our 50th season in Portland, Oregon. I lift at home with dumbbells and kettlebells, tryna keep in a little bit of shape. My wife and I own a small graphic design studio; so I'm hunched over a computer most of the time. That's so bad for your body!

At Pittock Mansion

• jlhopwo
• Apr 18, 2017

 

[wired]

Still a work in progress. 540 Big Block 800 HP. 9 second street car . Doing finish body work over the winter and painting it in March. Cop caller red.

 

[tlfreek]

I mainly ride road. I'm interested in cyclocross and track. There is a velodrome close to my house in SW called Alpenrose Alpenrose Velodrome | Track racing for our 50th season in Portland, Oregon. I lift at home with dumbbells and kettlebells, tryna keep in a little bit of shape. My wife and I own a small graphic design studio; so I'm hunched over a computer most of the time. That's so bad for your body!

At Pittock Mansion

• jlhopwo
• Apr 18, 2017

what do you think of those shoe covers? I also ride - 200+ miles a week. rain or shine snow or hail.

 

[jlhopwo]

what do you think of those shoe covers? I also ride - 200+ miles a week. rain or shine snow or hail.

I really like them. They're not insulated, just a thin rubber cover. They keep the water off for sure. Good for 52-57 degrees, IMHO.

 

[Tony617]

I just got back into RC airplanes last year. I was into RC airplanes back in the early 1990s but they were all glo-fueled and had to buy the airplane, transmitter/receiver, and engine separately back those days. I only two balsa and plywood planes back the day. Now it is quite a bit cheaper to get into the RC planes. All of my planes are EPO Foam now.

 

[Tony617]

T-28 Trojan RC airplane. I like the yellow color.

 

[Boboclown]

If you have a day to waste, why not polish some shoes?
(These aren't done yet)

 

[Diamondback]

@Tony617 Nice! An R/C B-52 is on my Bucket List, but an A-6 Intruder would probably be better to learn on. Know of any that are better bang for the buck than the Kyosho? Or a Warthog?

I know once upon a time there was an about 2' foamie free-flight and an R/C conversion kit for it, but that's long gone...

 

[Raidingtime]

Former Navy?

 

[Stomper]

If you have a day to waste, why not polish some shoes?
(These aren't done yet)
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We can almost see your red clown-nose in the reflection!

 

[Diamondback]

Former Navy?

"He who shines only half a shoe is only half a man!"--old Navy chiefs' saying, as quoted by Richard Marcinko

 

[Boboclown]

You shine the toes because shoe eventually cracks as you wear them in. While you do polish the entire shoe, mostly to make them look new, you don't spit shine the entire shoe. The cracks will show and look awful if you do.

You also don't get rubber soles... I had to settle for a rubber heel, but only cause its not noticeable. Dress shoes have annoying rules...

 

[tac]

All I have is my 'dress' Columbia high-ankle X-country shoes, and I'm guessing they wouldn't take much of a shine.

OTOH, I don't go anywhere that needs me to wear fancy shoes of any kind - hell, I'm mostly sockless, even.

tac

 

[Boboclown]

If you see me around the house the first thing you'd notice is I hate wearing shoes, don't even like socks. But as much as I hate wearing shoes, I have shoes for different situations.

 

[Stromburg]

 

[Stromburg]

When I'm not Jeeping we're cruising this

 

[solv3nt]

Here's my one and only hobby after moving to Hawaii. My max depth is 50' with a total underwater time of a little over a minute.