[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-11 Thread Lynn Haas 
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 with a 
lesson or two at a local yarn store and good wool. If you have kids you can 
make stuff for them and knitting is a nice portable craft to take along and 
keep you busy during stuff like soccer games or playground time. Check out 
Ravelry.com if you want to see the possibilities; my username is 
titianknitter if anyone wants to look me up over there. Lately I'm into 
buying raw wool straight off the sheep and processing it all the way to 
finished garments.

Fun fact: Knitting and weaving were traditionally male occupations. Women 
spun.

If I had time for another hobby I'd restore vintage bikes. 

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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-10 Thread aeroperf 
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 involved, they'll 
learn to program.

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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-10 Thread Dorothy C 
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 words for 
some help. 

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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-08 Thread Ray Varella 
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 prevent unwanted behaviors. 

I also have a small commercial coffee roaster, I use much of the profits to 
help support an in situ nest box program in Bolivia for a critically endangered 
species of Macaw. 

Ray

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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-08 Thread brendonoid 
This seems so far afield here but my biggest hobby outside of cycling is 
tabletop games. Specifically D&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 great.

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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-08 Thread Nick Payne 
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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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! 
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 lion who gave us the kingdom. We have graduated wizarding school and made 
the best friends we could have ever dreamed up, learned to stand for Good when 
no one else would and defeated our mortal enemy in a final act of selflessness. 
We have avoided capture from man-eating trolls and, in a reversal of fortune, 
left them as stone statues, so there! Most recently, we fought our way out of 
an arena to start a revolution and overthrow a cruel and oppressive government. 
We have made foods we learned about in these books, and we have talked at 
length about what the stories were trying to teach us. Take them to the library 
- tons of free programs. Go to Barnes and Noble story time and let them choose 
a book to buy. Bonus points if you let them have their very own library card 
and book bag.

2. Adult coloring for you, regular coloring for them. When they were little, 
we’d sit together with hot chocolate and music and talk about all the things 
little people want to know while we filled in black and white spaces with 
color. I love anything by Johanna Basford, a young Scottish darling who kicked 
off the adult coloring craze with her first book, Secret Garden. Bonus points 
if you splurge on the Sakura gel pens with glitter ink.

3. Cooking. It is a universal fact that kids love to help in kitchens. We got 
aprons and chef’s hats and a Harry Potter recipe book and went nuts. Bonus 
points if they help with dinner prep and learn about what nutrients specific 
foods offer and how they help the body!

4. “Adventuring.” This is done mostly by bike nowadays, because it’s faster and 
they like fast. But we would go out for nature walks and they would crawl over 
rocks and make forts and and look for creatures. We would do a “park tour” in 
our California days, where I would stuff them in the bike trailer and we would 
hit one park after another via bike on the paseos until we made our way home. 
Bonus points if you bring a picnic lunch. Double bonus points if you bring 
their stuffed animals and set them up at your picnic.

5. Movie night. In our CA days, we lived in a tight neighborhood. I was best 
friends with 3 families who had kids the same ages. One couple would host movie 
and popcorn night at their house while the rest of the couples had a date. 
Could be dinner, could be an ice cream or a walk at the pretty outdoor mall. 
Bonus points if your friends are from elsewhere - all our friends were from 
India and taught my kids their mother-tongues while our kids were in their 
homes.

6. NATIONAL PARKS! These are the gems of our United States and nearly everyone 
lives by one! (State parks are grand, too.) They are affordable and memorable 
and good for the mind, body and soul. One year we just hit every national park 
in driving distance and had a ball. Bonus points if you sing songs on the drive.

I wish you minivans and road trips and chapter books and good food made with 
tiny people in tiny aprons. Bonus points if you report back here with photos 
and stories.

Leah

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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Philip Williamson 
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 (get 
the nicest supplies). "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain," a pencil, a 
black pen, and a decent pad can give you that effort/reward of riding 
bikes. 
Photography. I got back into film cameras, when I inherited a bunch from my 
dad. I kept and repaired the most appealing ones, a Leica screwmount, a 
Graflex 34 (converted to 44), and an Exakta with a couple nice lenses which 
I haven't used yet. 
Before that I shot a lot with a Sony Nex, cheap adapters and vintage or 
cheap lenses. That was very enjoyable, and you could get into that for a 
couple hundred dollars. 
Gardening. I have speakers in the yard, and for the last couple of years 
I'd spend Saturday morning listening to one of Mike Varley's KWMR shows 
from that week, sit down with coffee and look around. Pretty soon I'd 
think, "Oh, I could deadhead those roses," or "that tree limb is bugging 
me," or "I bet that irrigation system isn't *totally* shot." 
Reading. I get books from the library, or use the 'Libby' app to read on 
the phone or iPad. I read "Dataclysm," "Outliers," and a couple of Richard 
K Morgan books with Libby so far. 

Philip
Santa Rosa, CA



On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 8:19:14 PM UTC-7, dstein wrote:
>
> 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 an accident earlier this year. My wife says I need a hobby. I don't 
> disagree. Bonus points if it's thrifty, because damn I've spent a lot of 
> money at Rivendell over the years.
>

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Re: [RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Birdman 
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 as an adult. The 
playing technique is relatively simple; in my opinion, it’s about 10% technique 
and 90% taste.

More recently, I’ve been shooting black and white film photography on a fully 
manual camera using sunny sixteen. The beauty in simplicity is similar to 
riding my Quickbeam.

Isaac in Portland, OR

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Re: [RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Birdman 
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 as an adult. The 
playing technique is relatively simple; in fact, it’s about 10% technique and 
90% taste IMO. 

More recently, I’ve been shooting black and white film photography on a fully 
manual camera using sunny sixteen. The beauty in simplicity is similar to 
riding my Quickbeam.

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Re: [RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Toshi Takeuchi 
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 McKenzie  wrote:

> 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 (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 survive happy for the rest of my life.
>>
>> Toshi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:50 PM 'Dave Small' via RBW Owners Bunch <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> http://www.smallvintagevending.com
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
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Re: [RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread rpeters . vetpath 
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 add. 

Cooking is both hobby and survival for me: current obsessions are making 
pickles and hot sauce. Baking causes more waistline casualties so although I 
love tea cakes and biscuits, I’m not training for anything that’d justify those 
calories...yet. :) The kids have helped with pickling (no canning tho)- great 
fun to have chopping help.

I’m thinking of tabulating and making a Venn diagram of these hobbies of Riv 
owners-i get the feeling there’s a lot of commonalities!

Happy exploring!
Rachel 
Arlington MA

> On Oct 7, 2019, at 6:08 PM, Curtis McKenzie  wrote:
> 
> 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 (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 survive 
>> happy for the rest of my life.
>> 
>> Toshi
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:50 PM 'Dave Small' via RBW Owners Bunch 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 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.  
>>> 
>>> http://www.smallvintagevending.com
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> 
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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Clayton.sf 


On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 8:19:14 PM UTC-7, dstein wrote:
>
> 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 an accident earlier this year. My wife says I need a hobby. I don't 
> disagree. Bonus points if it's thrifty, because damn I've spent a lot of 
> money at Rivendell over the years.
>

Lifting weights. Last year I put a power rack into my garage, bought a 
barbell and some weights and have been having a blast with it. Equipment 
can be found used relatively cheap but the investment in your health is 
huge. Happy to provide more info if interested.

Clayton Scott
HBGCA

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Re: [RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Curtis McKenzie 
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 (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 survive happy for the rest of my life.
>
> Toshi
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:50 PM 'Dave Small' via RBW Owners Bunch <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> http://www.smallvintagevending.com
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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Re: [RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Toshi Takeuchi 
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 survive
happy for the rest of my life.

Toshi




On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:50 PM 'Dave Small' via RBW Owners Bunch <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://www.smallvintagevending.com
>
> Dave
>
>
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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread 'Dave Small' via RBW Owners Bunch 
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.  

http://www.smallvintagevending.com

Dave



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Re: [RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread Patrick Moore 
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 and socks and perhaps a baby jogger. (Tho' I sometimes carry
my slingshot and a pocketful of gravel in cold weather when the coyotes
gather to skulk in my neighborhood; this to protect the dog, not me.)

Reading history via Kindle loans from the local public library system.
Literature; there's a whole world out there that I read as a boy and very
young man.

YouTube, old bbc mysteries; sorry, I've not watched broadcast TV for 15
years, and never watched cable, but American mystery series aren't as well
done. Rumpole, Morse, Gently, Holmes (Brett), Poirot (Suchet), Foyle's War,
PD James, Ian Rankin (I think they did some of his), etc etc etc. Actually,
the American TV series Nero Wolfe is very good too.

I need to re read Shakespeare. Junk reading has dulled my reading sense,
and I find it difficult to read what I read with delight in my adolescence
and youth, but I've long noticed that the satisfaction derived is far
greater -- more real. Which is not surprising, since S was truly a genius
in character and plot, while even, say, Patrick Aubry, or for that matter
Trollop or Austen are not.

Willa Cather is decent and free. I read a lot of children's classics too
(The Secret Garden, Narnia).

Military history, again you tube.

Some library systems have checkout streaming video collections. Ours hasn't
much, yet.

I manage to get a lot of what I want for free; video on Youtube, many, many
classics free from Kindle, or perhaps for $0.99 or $1.99.

Philophy and theology. I tried Augustine but as a professional rhetorician
I find his elaborate style trying; we modern's haven't the language skills
or appreciation of our ancestors. Plato; he's not ornate. Back to history:
just "picked up" in Kindle Caesar De Bello Gallo and Thucydides on the
Peloponnesian war (in English). Plutarch. *De Divinibus Nominibus* with
Aquinas's commetary (kidding as a suggestion, but the 2 books have been
sitting on my "read next" shelf fro 3 years.)

Building stuff for the house.

Reading the bible in vulgate Latin (trying).

Not me, I hate working on cars, but I know people who have found great
satisfaction in restoring old cars; just mainstream iron, nothing expensive.

If I had more time, boxing or fencing. Sailing too in a small boat if I
didn't live in a desert.

Chopping wood -- if I had a woodpile; but I loved it as a boy.

Gardening. I don't like it, but I don't try. If I had to fill time, I'd
once again try a vegetable patch.

Woodworking: I don't do it, by my father liked it very much.

Etc etc etc!

Let us know what you try.

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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread LBleriot 
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, 2019 at 11:19:14 PM UTC-4, dstein wrote:
>
> 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 an accident earlier this year. My wife says I need a hobby. I don't 
> disagree. Bonus points if it's thrifty, because damn I've spent a lot of 
> money at Rivendell over the years.
>

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[RBW] Re: OT: non-bike hobbies

2019-10-07 Thread ascpgh 
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. We help a young college 
student who's beyond her family's ability to aid or contribute. Read 
Educated by Tara Westover and you'll appreciate how global this 
mentorship is. We also are very involved in a family in our neighborhood 
whom we met while the mom was in med school with three babies at home and a 
husband with the lifelong effects of a TBI. We offer the functional other 
parent often in support of all three of their childhood pursuits and daily 
challenges of family life (boiler quits on 20 degree night) their mom isn't 
able to schedule, attend or do herself. 

Leisure application of life skills for others? I guess so. 

Andy Cheatham
Pittsburgh

On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:19:14 PM UTC-4, dstein wrote:

> 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 an accident earlier this year. My wife says I need a hobby. I don't 
> disagree. Bonus points if it's thrifty, because damn I've spent a lot of 
> money at Rivendell over the years.
>

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