I knit and spin (with a spinning wheel, not an indoor bike-type thing) and
make a few kinds of lace. Great hobby because it has astonishing depth, but
you can also keep it as simple as you want. It can be cheap or expensive,
although I suggest budgeting maybe $100 for startup so you can begin
When I was young my dad and I built model airplanes together, which set up
my career.
Now I'm building a robotic kitten. https://www.petoi.com/
Hours of fun building and programming with a Raspberry Pi computer, and it
is relatively cheap.
You can do it in any weather, and if you get the kids
I play electronic Scrabble. The version I have (EA games) has a pass and play
option, so you don’t have to play against the computer or with an internet
connection if you don’t want to. I like the fact that it does the math and
flags invalid words. They also have a dictionary and the two letter
This list is full of interesting and community minded members. You are an
inspiring group.
I’ve been involved with Parrots for nearly 40 years.
I fly them outdoors as well as photographing them in flight.
I do free behavioral consulting to help people better understand their birds
and
This seems so far afield here but my biggest hobby outside of cycling is
tabletop games. Specifically D for me but its a big exciting world of
tabletop out there.
Adult play is so important for mental health and often gets shunned as
something for kids. It's not. Using your imagination is
I play classical guitar (badly), and competition English billiards and
snooker at a reasonably high level. I guess the guitar probably averages
around 1hr/day and the billiards and snooker two or three hours a time two
or three times a week.
Nick
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Things I love outside of biking that include my bear cubs:
1. I read them books, and have done since they were babes. Even at 13 and 10,
they love it. We’ve been all over the world and to other worlds, too. We’ve
crawled into the wardrobe to have tea with a faun, and met a terrifying and
good
When the kid was younger, we did kung fu as a family. I liked that pretty
well, but I haven't kept up the practice since moving back to California.
I do a lot of art. Drawing, watercolors. Oil painting when I take a class
every few years. Drawing is cheap, even if you get the nicest supplies
I’ve been playing old-time banjo styles for about 18 years and feel fortunate
to be married to a terrific fiddler. It’s great fun and the old-time community
reminds me a lot of the Rivendell and bike camping communities: lots of good
folk. Clawhammer banjo is a great instrument to learn to play
I’ve been playing old-time banjo styles for about 18 years and feel fortunate
to be married to a terrific fiddler. It’s great fun and the old-time community
reminds me a lot of the Rivendell and bike camping communities: lots of good
folk. Clawhammer banjo is a great instrument to learn to play
My orchestra played with a bluegrass band at my last concert. It was great
fun. I also play mandolin ok, since the fingering is the same as the
violin, but I just can't pick very quickly. Getting the family to play
together is really priceless.
Toshi
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 3:08 PM Curtis
Putting in another good word for banjo music! Especially if your significant
other is a fiddler or mandolin player...sounds better outside on the porch. I
fiddle and bought my husband a banjo—then my kids each got a keyboard and a
stand up bass in short order. Of their own free will I might
On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 8:19:14 PM UTC-7, dstein wrote:
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> I feel like this has come up before but could only find a thread from
> 2010: what are your non-bike hobbies? Particularly anyone with young kids
> that suck up all your other time or involve them. I haven't been riding
> since
Toshi,
Surely you are not discounting banjo music. Toss in a fiddle and a good
time will be had. Grin. I started well into my fifties. Really enjoying
the first instrument I am learning.
Enjoy,
Curtis
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 2:58 PM Toshi Takeuchi wrote:
> Music hasn't been mentioned
Music hasn't been mentioned (much if at all). It's never too late to learn
to play an instrument (I know violinists who learned after age 60 and are
playing in orchestras now). I'm a serviceable violinist, but am teaching
myself to play piano. If I have a keyboard and Bach music, I could
My other hobby is collecting antique vending machines, most (but not all)
of them designed to sell gum, candy, or peanuts. They're much smaller than
bikes so I can have more, but---unlike bikes---they're completely useless
for anything other than looking at. I *do* like to do that, though.
I hope you are able to get back on the bike before too long.
Me, if I couldn't ride, I'd walk, with or without dog, with kids if mine
was still at home. Of course, this is much easier if you live up against
good walking spaces, as I do. But walking involves nothing more than a good
pair of shoes
I turned to photography during my riding downturns. Kids make for ready
models and the technology scratched the itch to fiddle with something
mechanical. Landscape photography got me out and moving again. When you
heal, you can combine both hobbies by riding to shoots.
On Sunday, October 6,
My wife and I have this habit of acquiring residential structures to
renovate, not to flip. Currently rebuilding a three story brick single
family structure from 1885. Tooling, materials and licensed trades make
bikes seem paltry in comparison.
We are involved on a couple of other fronts too.
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