I used to have hobbies...I used to love luge-boarding and a few other things...but I allowed a car hobby to interfere with them.  Then my car hobby slowly became a collection of cars I'm parting out over various forums and ebay...and it's become so time consuming and irritating that I don't want to do it anymore.  Pretty much the only projects I still get to pursue that I really like working with are bike ones.

Currently on my list of projects:

Getting my lightweight bandit wheels, swinger and 40mm race-tech forks on my EX500...then I'll cut off the tail I made for it and start working on adapting a K4 GSXR tail to it.

CB900 chop-project powered by a turbocharged GS750 block.  Working on setting up the frame right and adapting my Ohlins F3 600 forks to the front and my TL's old swingarm with a 929RR 6-spoke 6" rear rim on the back.  Then it's time to start fitting the motor.  I would LOVE to do an intercooled blow-through setup but I'm working on doing this project for free...so we're going to be stuck with a straight shot draw-through setup with a Garret T25 off a Z32 300Z pulling through dual 38mm throttle bodies.  Looking for 7lbs of boost.

Then there's the whole "I can't wait to get that damned yellow paint off my TL" project....

family, skateboarding, autocross, WoW, ps2, cars, balintawak...

I watch birds and have thre aquariums. 

Other then that I like to do 16oz. curls.

My hobby is flying helicopters.    I'm going to school to be a Commercial pilot.  Right now I have my private license.   Pretty much all my free time is spent flying and studying for school.     Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a pilot and finally got into school about a year ago.   

Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on April 12, 2006, 07:23:16 PM
My time right now is divided between engineering, motorcycles, and my girlfriend.

If I didn't have work or school and had plenty of time to pursue the things I'm interested in:

Hot Rods (I want to build/restore one)
Photography (I've got a crappy camera, but I still want to learn)
Jiu jitsu (did it for a while, but didn't have enough time to commit)
Building stuff (just stuff, don't really care what. Models, support structures, bridges, decks, etc...)
Video games (they take away from studies, so I rarely play them anymore)
Waterskiing (used to ski regularly, but parents sold the boat and haven't been in a long time)

The list goes on. Lots of little nerdy/geeky things.

What type of engineering work?

Quote from: annguyen1981 on April 12, 2006, 07:59:27 PM

Quote from: makenzie71 on April 12, 2006, 04:57:05 PM
...umm...hmmm...

I'm with Mak...  I really don't have any hobbies anymore...  Kinda got sick of computer technology (programming), used to be obsessed with modding my car (too expensive)

programming all day long is enough to make anyone give up computers forever.   

Quote from: mike_mike on April 12, 2006, 10:18:13 PM
What type of engineering work?

I'm a mechanical engineering student at the University of Texas at Austin, so ME stuff 

Quote from: bsj177 on April 12, 2006, 09:15:38 PM
My hobby is flying helicopters.    I'm going to school to be a Commercial pilot.  Right now I have my private license.   Pretty much all my free time is spent flying and studying for school.     Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a pilot and finally got into school about a year ago.   

yeah, that's one of the things I always wanted to do. There's something attractive about having to use both your hands/arms and legs to be able to fly an helicopter. I love it 
But hey, don't you have to spend at least $20,000+ to get your licence? (and most of that money goes toward the fuel while you learn?)

Quote from: Turd Ferguson on April 12, 2006, 07:14:06 PM
Mmmmm bicycling.  I am obsessed with mountain and road biking.  I logged 5,000+ miles last year road biking, and probably around 1,500 mountain biking.

Look in the background here...


I told ya...its an obsession.

-Turd.

my spare bedroom used to look like that back when I raced (until Hugo was born 3.5 yrs ago). I have a pic somewhere, but only 2 of the bikes are left:
this is one of them (yes, fixed gear road bike):


indoor training....


racing:



now my hobby is:

Quote from: fodder650 on April 12, 2006, 04:50:37 PM
MMO's. Im a junkie

City of Villians/Heroes, Everquest 2,  Star Wars Galaxies, Eve, plus several betas like Auto Assault.

yesssssss muwahahahahahaha
bf2, planetside, d.o.d.s. damn near 20 hrs a week 
until i return to school. mmos will be a hard habit to curtail 

Pablo, what's the philosophy behind fixed gear? KISS?

I cycle as well (commute of 20 km, so it's more of a practical thing)

I rarely get time for it, but I'm into RC gliding. And all things aviation.

Haven't been a gamer since Omega Race.
Used to be road cyclist, rode some velodrome.  Nothing cooler than fixed gear, makes it into a completely different sport.
Used to be private pilot, power plant mechanic; not enough activity.  In aviation you need to spend a lot of time with it or not at all.  Nothing is more hazardous than a sporadic pilot.
Sporadic reader, I'll read a book a week for two months then none the rest of the year. Nothing current; Bourdain, Vonnegut, Friedman.
Regular raquetball player.
Work takes me on the road at least 6 weeks a year.  Wife usually goes along.  So travelling is the most significant activity.
SpeedVision motorcycle road racing junkie.
Oh yeah, I work sometimes, just not very hard.

My wife and I are homebrewers.  We've been doing it for about a year and it's great fun.  I got a kegerator that fits 2 pepsi kegs I fill with beer and a seperate fridge for microbrews.  It's awesome having 2 beers on tap that you created, plus 50 different microbrews in the garage.

Geocaching with wife and my two dogs.  It's kind of like a high tech treasure hunt.  Nothing like hiking for a few miles to exchange a keychain for a bouncy ball.

Huge cubs fan and penn state basketball fan.  Yes, that's right, PSU basketball.

Between work and keeping up with the house, there isn't much time for other things.

I feel so lo-tech  i pretty much suck at comp games

building a new GS street bike
building a vintage race bike for a friend....early 90's FZR600....vintage
fixing/cleaning SV up to sell
building a RG-V / DR650  (...waiting for tig welder friend to have time to do engine mounts....been a while)
playing with my lathe...turning good chunks of metal into shavings is fun
welding and fabricating....i'm getting better, sometimes it looks like a
pro might have done it..... when they were drunk
pit crew for SCCA race cars....floater...help everybody in the group


riding
driving i drive more so the wif can come along    2-300 miles a weekend
and yes my new weekend car is a suzuki.....geo metro 44 MPG!!!!!!!!

building a 1959 austin-healey sprite powered by a suzuki 3 cylinder turbo engine
restoring/mod-ing a 1965 FORMCAR FV1200....one of 40 in '65 and last yr of production
helping Wif build/mod a 66 stang for her weekend ride
painted my first car 3 weeks ago....came out ok

re-habbing houses....almost done with the 2nd one
plumbing
drywall
(hate painting with a brush/roller)
building decks
hiking
canoeing
walking the cat
hanging out with my birds
throwing the ball for the dog

and NO kids!!!!!!!!!!!
who has time for them 

When I'm not motorcycling, I'm automobiling! 

I'm really into precision automotive performance, I have an A4 that I hope to use strictly as a track car someday.  I love Audis, note the avatar, ain't that just sexy?  If you need to know anything about turbochargers, EFI, or Coil on Plug ignition systems, I'm your man 

Used to have a girlfriend that I called a hobby because she took a lot of time and and money too.  She didn't like being called a hobby for some reason 

I used to like computers, but now, I hate them, with a passion!  Guess what?  I'm a computer engineering student!

RC planes.....Cheap foamies with a computer radio woohoo 
SCUBA
5 liter Mustang, money pit......I don't even want to add the receipts
VW Bug, lost intrest and kept breaking tools
Like a few others, computers I'm beginning to hate.  To many stupid people I have to deal with.


I have no cheap hobbies. 

My son and My daughter are my new "hobbies".

I have too many projects going on.

rebuild 86' F150 302 V8 EFI.  work truck. 
rebuild two GS 500's

tinkering with the 99' GS
welding (flux core and arc welding)  still a noob
body work, painting (cars bike whatever)

gokarts, skateboards, rollerblades, freestyle bikes,mountain bikes......if it has wheels and I could hurt myself, I got one

yeah, that's one of the things I always wanted to do. There's something attractive about having to use both your hands/arms and legs to be able to fly an helicopter. I love it 
But hey, don't you have to spend at least $20,000+ to get your licence? (and most of that money goes toward the fuel while you learn?)

Quote

My school is 60K but that is for private, commercial, instrument and CFI licenses.     To just get your private cost probably 10K.    It is challenging having to use both legs and arms to fly.   Helo's are cool though we can do lots of stuff fixed wingers cant   

Quote from: pantablo on April 12, 2006, 11:22:17 PM
my spare bedroom used to look like that back when I raced (until Hugo was born 3.5 yrs ago). I have a pic somewhere, but only 2 of the bikes are left:
this is one of them (yes, fixed gear road bike):


indoor training....


racing:



now my hobby is:

I love you more and more each post you make. 

That Fixie Bianchi is a work of art.  I have an old beater that I fixed for "around town".  I find myself grabbing it all of the time now for leasurly late night strolls.  Fixed is addictive!

-Turd

I snowboard and rock climb. I suck at both.

I do a lot of different things.  I like to tinker on cars and bikes, build models, build rc cars, and would like to get back into rc flight but I know that the first thing i would do is crash right into the ground.  What i need to do for that is find a good rc flight sim that i can use a real controller with to work the bugs out of me before i wreck an explensive plane.  Oh and i fish, camp, hike....... list goes on.  we'll just say that in the warm months i like to keep busy