OT: Your other hobbies?
 

I thought there was an old thread with this topic, but couldn't find it. If someone wants to they can dig it up & this one can be deleted.

Anyways, post your hobbies other than SSFG and spending all your money on bike components

Mine: Badminton (indoor and competitive), tennis, and searching for the perfect sandwich shop :thumb:

Right now I seriously spend all my money on bike stuff and food.

I used to pole vault. I need to get back into that, but clubs are all far and few (and it costs much more than what I spend on bike stuff).

I recently started playing tennis but it's kinda meh for me. I just play because my friends play.

since I spend most of my week on track bicycle my weekend hobby is riding a road bicycle.

besides riding my bike i used to wrench A LOT when i was in washington state. i ride a triumph thruxton and own an sti which i used to work on a lot but ever since i moved i havent really touched.

Computer games, cars, and learning to cook!

besides cycling, i like longboarding, but recently, I've only used my longboard for quick 7-11 runs.
I also enjoy crossfit.
I also consider myself a cannabis connoisseur. haha
But this year, most of my money has gone to travelling.

I have many interests! Photography, hi - fi audio(yes audiophile stuff; music is included in this category basically, all genres!), cars (I've always enjoyed the pleasures of looking at street/ lifestyle cars, and most importantly exotic cars, even though I probably would never have the guts to go all the way with buying one, I cannot swallow the price and depreciation of one; I do drive a '09 BMW M6 and '05 Subaru sti coupe through), cooking, longboarding (second most space taking sport, so many boards! Basically I had no learning curve because I'm accustomed to skateboarding although longboarding has taken my heart when it comes to four - wheeled human powered vehicles), economics and business management (it's my livelihood), badminton (I think it's my natural born sport; by chance I was in high school and decided to have a foray in it and ended up getting into varsity with ease and later division wins), road cycling (my primary discipline), computer gaming (performance enthusiast), dining (it seems that I like every kind of food!), cinematography, traveling (having adventure and exploring!), and pampering my wife (a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do).

Rugby, Photography, Skiing, Reading.

Used to be a lot more diverse, but I've since tried to simplify.

Also, I lump road, fixed and Mtn riding together into the generic "Bicycle category".

Squash and cooking

squash gnocchi is one of my favs!

Oh yea, Law and Order SVU!!!!

Photography and music

I play orchestral upright bass, bass guitar, skateboard, drink beer, and work in a kitchen, but bike riding has trumped all of these for a couple of years now. I'm excited to finally get back into a strings ensemble this semester, though. I'm in a ska band right now, but I don't take it very seriously even though we have a show coming up.

I play ukulele

i cook, paint, play drums and sing in a country band, sing and play keys+synths in a noisy sludgy band, am teaching myself accordion, go camping, screen-printing, watch shows about ghosts, go to lots of shows, listen to and collect music(hip-hop, metal, punk, jazz, country, pop, noise, rock, almost anything if it's good), and walk around my hood with my best bud(hank the dog)

I played bass guitar all throughout junior high and high school. Played a lot of post rock. I just sold off my pedalboard, cab (hoping to replace it with a little 1x12 some day), and spare bass 'coz I haven't played in so long. Never going to sell my Stingray 5 'til I'm homeless, though...

Telemark skiing, cross country skiing, sailing (race on a j24), disc golf, used to do a lot more, but work, skiing and sailing have taken over a lot of time. I also fix up old motorcycles, have a '67 Triumph chopper (motor currently apart, being rebuilt), '69 cb350, '73 cb450, '85 BMW, and a '58 BSA Scrambler (long term project, every last nut and bolt has been taken apart and bagged/labeled/boxed up). Oh, and beer. Also used to play in a band that was on the road every weekend, couldn't handle it taking my only freetime so, I quit recently.

mmm post-rock. :love:

My list is pretty similar to many of those already posted:

Photography (mostly landscape & street, I still shoot with a Nikon D40)
Travel (every chance I get)
Hiking (any outdoor activity, really)
Cooking (especially fattening foods)
DIY everything (I like to think that I can make or fix almost anything)
Gardening/landscaping (difficult as an urban dweller)

Transportation is fascinating - planes, trains, automobiles, and those suped up lawnmowers
Marching band
Internet - not the lining in swimsuits
Swimming

fellow badminton player :)

I heard there are tons of nice clubs in Cali, esp in your area. Clubs are pretty sparse in Michigan but I can't complain, we have a great uni club here

Weird, this thread was just started in the roadie forum recently too.

Being self-employed gives me lots of free time for hobbies: photography, drawing (graphite/digital), tattoos (especially "hand-poke" Japanese tebori), Photoshop, Japanese language and culture, aikido, sword-fighting, training and playing with my 2 dogs, hiking, indoor horticulture, MMORPG's, recycling and picking up garbage, eating with chopsticks... I want to learn calligraphy too, but I think I'll wait until I begin learning katakana and kanji.

Racquetball, cooking (although that's what I do for money now, when classes aren't in session), espresso, gin, bourbon, good beer, I play guitar and have a band at school, I have a cat.

Super Smash Bros. Melee (Marth/Samus/Sheik/Doc Mario)

This is a couple years old, my Fender '59 Reissue Thin-Skin Jazzmaster, which was a graduation present from my parents and will follow me into my coffin, in the background is a '64 Harmony Rocket and a '78 Fender Deluxe Reverb, both of which I no longer own:

http://i.imgur.com/yHlyI.jpg

My passion is BBQ, real BBQ, not the grilled and covered in sauce crap.