My excuse is that it's too cold for a while now anyway
Nick
Has anyone got any other hobbies ,which have taken a 'back seat' since the Locost build came along ? Mine are : 1) Building go karts to blast around the school where I work . 2). radio control model boats .
my mountain bike which used to get 2 outings a week hasn't seen the light of day for a long time
My excuse is that it's too cold for a while now anyway
Nick
My crazy back pack helicopter project.
quadbike has had a few outings and mountianbike thats not moved for a while
quote:Gilbert you mad thing
Originally posted by Cita
My crazy back pack helicopter project.
Giving up bein Akela with local
Cub pack. As if looking after me
Indy Blade aint enough got a
GT40 to get on the road!! Luvin It!!
I was into quading majorly before I got into kit cars. Begged my dad to buy me a Suzuki LT80 and he did, £1500 in 1997. I was gonna get it up to race
spec. I rode it every weekend for about three years, round the garden and at the track. Then I just rode it round the garden for about 2 years, then
we bought the locost. After that it sat in the garage for about a year. We sold about six months ago for £1200. A loss of £300 over seven years
isn't bad!
Adam
Made a model steam locomotive!
[img]Lathyrus[/img]
(don't know why this picture didn't show properly - Chris? You can click on it tho' )
Total weight around 200 pounds when its water tender is attached, has hauled 12-15 adults around a short track. It's very neglected at the
moment, but I'll get back to it once I've got the car to a stable condition (and while the weather's cold).
rgds,
David
[Edited on 2/12/04 by David Jenkins]
Microlighting,hang gliding oh yes and me stamp collection has gone all to shite
Cheers,
Bob
Yep, song writing. I haven't written/recorded anything for about a year or so. That said I'm now playing a lot more guitar since I have
the car finished than since I started the build.
You can get a couple of songs I wrote and recorded about 2 years ago below.
http://users.firenet.uk.com/ajackson/Ali%20Jackson%20-%20Sam%20Bradley
.mp3
and
http://users.firenet.uk.com/ajackson/Ali%20Jackson%20-%20ankle.mp3
These songs have no copyright so feel free to do with them exactly what you desire.
Mountain biking as regularly as possible, also used to race on-road radio controlled cars but that started to get too expensive and I didn't
have enough time for it to make the cost worthwhile. Good fun though!
Andy
when you said before you had made a steam engine, i thought you meant a desk top mammod (sp?) thing!
thats way cool
atb
steve
quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Made a model steam locomotive!
[img]Lathyrus[/img]
(don't know why this picture didn't show properly - Chris? You can click on it tho' )
Total weight around 200 pounds when its water tender is attached, has hauled 12-15 adults around a short track. It's very neglected at the moment, but I'll get back to it once I've got the car to a stable condition (and while the weather's cold).
rgds,
David
[Edited on 2/12/04 by David Jenkins]
I'm very involved with music. In fact, it's clear to me that music is the only reason why I don't plan to start any car building
project in the near future. I spend quite some time studying daily, and play in bands.
Alister, I think those two songs are really good.
Cheers,
Alex
Savate (kickboxing) has probably been the main victim. I've missed loads of the Sunday afternoon extra training 'murder sessions' as
result of brekkies up at Newlands/Walton. And my enthusiasm even for the main class has waned somewhat.
Having taken on a 2nd job as well doesn't give me a whole lot of time for anything!
My boss of my main job and my girlfriend might both suggest that other things have taken a back seat too!
Cheers,
James
Yup...
Radio Amateur
Computers
Shooting (Packed up as the Gov't took them all away) 
Feels like I was punished for something I did NOT do.
Have a 1954 Matchless motorbike under restoration (Long term project - on the back burner!)
2 x Teenage Boys (15+17)
Wife
Viento, as I have done two Land Rover rebuilds, and wanted to do something different. www.btinternet.com/~geoff.wilkin
Not necessarily in that Order.
quote:
Originally posted by wilkingj
Shooting (Packed up as the Gov't took them all away)
Feels like I was punished for something I did NOT do.
I used to fly radio-controlled helicopters and I used to have a marriage/wife 
Have you noticed that most of the hobbies people list above are solitary pursuits. By that I mean not team activities like Soccer or Cricket, or even
going down the pub with mates - is that a hobbie?
Is that because you need to be the sort of person who like doing things on his own, and also be a bit bloody minded, to put up with the aggravations
of building a car yourself?
My previous hobbies included:
Competitive cycling while a student, but that is not fun when you are not properly fit and hanging on at the back of a bunch. I used to promise myself
I would give up at least once a race, but once finished you see that you did a bit better than last time and feel a bit better, so you keep at it.
Gave up eventually, as who has time to put in two hours a day on the bike and still earn a living etcetera.
Have just given up kart racing, as it's too expensive to keep up and also buy required car bits at the same time, even without the time factor.
Karting is a sport where you can spend lots of money and hours preparing and testing for events, and then have your equipment damaged, and get no
results at all, when you are blamelessly taken out by someone racing on Daddies pocket.
I have also spent many hours over many years doing afterhours technical backstage work in amateur and semi professional theater. Here you give up all
your free time, usually for no remuneration, to be involved in a production that finishes and vanishes into thin air after a few days or weeks. Very
good social scene for a heterosexual bachelor though!
But then, being a bachelor is another hobbie I have recently given up.
So, compared to the above, I suppose building a car makes more sense. When I lock up the workshop at night and look back at what I am building, at
least I can see where the money is, and it will still be there tomorrow!
Cheers
Fred WB
Ok, here goes. I'm a sucker for big boys toys.
Hobbies (well basically things I havent used since I started building a car)
Model Helicopters (1x Indoor, 2x 30-Size outdoor)
Model Planes (1x High wing trained, 1x flexi-wing Microlight)
Model Cars (1x 10th scale professional touring car, 1x Off-road buggy)
Robotics (1x Modified i-cybie, 1x Competion Sumo Bot, Fully equiped electronics workshop(use mainly for robtics))
Model Railway (9ftx9ft, currently under construction)
I did struggle with the dilema of only having enough cash to either own and learn to fly a flexi-wing microlight or build a car.
on the garage roof there is a 1 seater racing hovercraft waiting 4 an engine and a skirt
[Edited on 3/12/2004 by I love speed :-P]
I had a hovercraft a few yrs ago ,had to go cos the local neighbours complained of the noise ,as i blasted it around the playground here ! Was heavily into 'tot rods ' , when my kids were young . still got one that requires 5 hp honda engine . Also 1 /2 way thro' the build of a three wheel piaggio powered go kart ,languishing in the shed .
gave up karting and sold the kart to fund the locost project. (didn't go very far though!) going to the pub has been consiederably cut bac on
-saves money and i don't really miss it. my stamp collection hasn't been added to in years!
Ned.
As I seem to work more on the locost my work has turned into my hobby. I guess I have my priorities staight finally, that is until the
bill colelctors come knocking.
Oh yeah, I do have a 1926 22' Hackercraft Gentleman's runabout that didn't see water last year.
David
Nice Boat !!
I agree nice boat,
Oh yeah forgot the boat, guess that would be considered a hobby.
quote:
Originally posted by Alez
I'm very involved with music. In fact, it's clear to me that music is the only reason why I don't plan to start any car building project in the near future. I spend quite some time studying daily, and play in bands.
Alister, I think those two songs are really good.
Alez,
Cheers,
Alex
and some of them involved guns
atb
steve
quote:
Originally posted by Fred W B
Have you noticed that most of the hobbies people list above are solitary pursuits.
Fred WB
I have been building a live steam loco for the last 20 years and am planning on getting a bit more done to it this winter. I also have a model gas
turbine aero engine that I was building before i started the car to finish .
My mountain bike hasnt seen the road for the last year, I also used to shoot in an air rifle league when i could find the time.
My MGB is seriously neglected having stood in the back garden for the last 4 years.
My main priority at ther moment is some DIY to get back on the wifes good side, before i dissappear back into the workshop in the spring.
Paul.
Great thread!
I used to race 1/10th off road model cars alot more than I do now. I used to go to local club meetings, regional events, national events, and even the
euro championship once!
Just been doing the regionals since started building the car, and I think I've actually improved! I finished second in the North East regional
championship (4wd) this year and nearly won it!
It was a great feeling turning up at the first event, finishing third, and beating a load of guys that had been racing week in, week out for the last
six months while I was in the garage!
I had a similar experience this weekend - took the kart out of the rafters, slapped a motor on it, found a carb in a box,and went racing in the annual
one hour end of season enduro. Ran well, we call it "off the trailer, on the pace!"
Cheers
Fred WB
Strangling wild animals, golf, and masturbation.
Never admit to being a golfer .
i thought a golfer was a small furry animal
quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gusterson
i thought a golfer was a small furry animal
quote:
Originally posted by krlthms
Strangling wild animals, golf, and masturbation.
quote:
Originally posted by Rorty
quote:
Originally posted by krlthms
Strangling wild animals, golf, and masturbation.
In my experience, golfers and w4nkers are one and the same!
1/10 scale stadium trucks, 1/10 on road, plus I used to spend alot trying to strap large model rocket engine to rc cars and I devised a 3 stage
procedure for shooting them off in sequence.
Mountain biking, havn't really dont too much of that either.
the wife's been pretty neglected.
Although strangely enough I have found more time to go to the gym, and I find myself riding my motorcycle alot more.
quote:
Originally posted by krlthms
Strangling wild animals, golf, and masturbation.
Aikido, Radio Controlled Offshore IC Power boats, hope to get back into flying model Helicopters, wife, kids etc, etc, etc
Oh and thinking that I might construct, finish and drive a kit car!!!
Some hope. No money!!!!
Cheers
Mark
Derf,
Your wife's not been neglected, I've been nipping round while you've been model car racing.
i used to like r/c airplanes and helis, but packed that in to fund buying my chassis for the car - once i get an idea into my head, i have to see it
through.
pity they always get more and more expensive!
also quite into road racing (bike) and tennis (weather permitting).
tom
quote:
Originally posted by Fred W B
Have you noticed that most of the hobbies people list above are solitary pursuits. By that I mean not team activities like Soccer or Cricket, or even going down the pub with mates - is that a hobbie?
Is that because you need to be the sort of person who like doing things on his own, and also be a bit bloody minded, to put up with the aggravations of building a car yourself?
Stupidly bought a Streak Shadow this time last year. Moved house recently, and we're in the middle of planning an extension to the new abode, so everything seems to have come to a halt.