Ok what other hobbies have people done in the past or are still doing now.

I was obsessed by building and flying model airoplanes.

Will be interesting to see how similar your hobbies are to building cars.

fishing, and arguing with the TV, not really related but I enjoy them

Other than messing about with cars:

RC cars and boats and general model engineering

Shooting

Power kiting

Computers in general

Music/DJing

Thats the main ones...

David

Kart racing (at national level when I was younger, but just for fun these days)
Motorbikes (competition trials, some motocross and road bikes since i was 14)
Sprints & hillclimbs (the 4 wheeled variety)
Hillclimbing (the 2 footed variety)

Cheers

Alex
PS
Drink and women also featured although both happened so long ago it is becoming only a memory!)

Got four planes,

1967 Cessna 150 - Flying
1952 Auster J5/F - In process of being repaired
1948 Auster J1 Autocrat - Stripped down to kit form ready to be restored
1990 Merlin GT - Nearly finished kit plane, bought as nearly finished kit

Got a few boats as well, only one that's in the water,
Then sports, i'm into cycling and rowing mainly

Computers
Pubs
10 pin bowling (for fun not league) although i havent been for a while.


and im getting into kiting at the minute.

Nowt really exciting i lead a boring life since marriage.

Surfing for me, about ten years or so now.
Generally most watersports/boardsports like wakeboarding etc.

Up until last Saturday my main hobby was motorbike racing. Last race of the year at Oulton Park and have broken my flippin' right arm/elbow. Bugger!

Will concentrate on the car build for next year and maybe take up knitting as well!

i just work all the time and build cars in my spare time, mind you i have massive morgage thats stops me sleeping at night

used to kart race with my uncle and cousin a few years ago untill we had a run of bad luck the other year

now i just have holidays in the sun what i cant afford.

I'm currently on my 4th car but in between times I do some sailing (did a round britain trip in '90), built 2 cruising hovercraft, (crashed both), a bit of gliding and spent a lot of time (and money) in the pub.

I used to do alot of hillwalking and skiing (in Scotland) before the kids came along.
Now it's building Dry Stone Walls, and the odd bit of DIY. Anything that keeps me busy.

Keith.

atm not much except building the car.

Before that racing R/C model cars (electric) and boats. Occasionally on european level.

and playing Unreal Tournament online in several clans.

Seems more people have a R/C models background.

Hi there

Yip there would appear to be some similarity

R/C Planes/ Helicopters as well
Mountian Biking
Skiing

Cheers

Ian

P.S. for the local R/C Club ( I designed the website, does that count as another hobby?)visit www.pdmfa.fsnet.co.uk

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Me i am into fish ( keeping not catching ) both indoor and outdoor. Computer's dont count because its the day Job. Skiing when I can afford it. Keeping the wife from nowing how much I have spent on the Kit car is quite a good hobby - seems I am quite good at it too

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I used to do alot of hillwalking and skiing (in Scotland) before the kids came along.
Now it's building Dry Stone Walls, and the odd bit of DIY. Anything that keeps me busy.

Keith.

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Mountain biking's my other passion in life although house buying/renovating, marriage, a kid and the kit car have relegated the bike to the back of the garage over the last couple of years

Still the car's nearly finished (the house will never be finished) the wife's going back to work next month and my son's nearly old enough to go in a seat on the back of the bike so hopefully the bike will get a pasting next summer (although there's talk of more kids, which has sent my wallet into a state of panic )

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R/C Aircraft for me aswell.

this my old website.

http://www.spitfire55.freeserve.co.uk/

my only real hobby is the car, however other stuff i like would include guitars, running, karting, reading, learning stuff (owt will do ) and im about to go to the driving range, if i can convince my pal that 7s and rain go well together!

Just Rugby for me.

That and work seems to be enough to kill all my time!

How sad.

I do a variant of kickboxing called Savate.

Been doing it nearly six and a half years having been inspired to take up a martial art after watching the Matrix. Have tried a few other martial arts but none have been as good.

I recently got a Bronze medal at the world championships.

A good example of Savate Combat :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DymS391Qe_U

A good example of Savate Assaut (my preference):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79j-uAyRJFo&search=savate

A good friend and current World Champion is the guy in blue.


Cheers,
James

i got lots of hobbies, just not good at any of them. lol

Current toy/hobbie is a walkera 52 electric mini RC heli. THE MOST difficult thing i have ever tried to do. Managing to keep it in the air now.

Going to the gym
Mini motos (abit chavish now)
Diy
PC computer games online
nitro RC buggies (i spend stupid amounts on my last one, over 2K)
messing in the garage.
karting for fun

Raced dinghys for 10 years in my youth.

Since then building plastic models, building and flying RC planes and Bellringing while my kids were small.

For the last 10 years it's been playing guitar and building a car.

Love all music, rugby and motorsport. Eldest plays drums in our band, second lad plays rugby.

I would like to find new hobbies, was thinking about going to a local bouldering centre to have a look at that, ok a bit old to start but why not.
Have done a bit of skiing in canada which i enjoyed. would like to do my padi diving next year possible in eqypt but has to be some where warm. i did a couple of dives in hawaii which is why i want my formal qualification. do a bit of model making but not much. trend to watch tv, play ps2 and online.

Growing bonsai, mountain biking, offroading in Land Rover, HiFi,

I used to be really into rock climbing a few years back, mostly indoor but abit of out door too!

When i started uni i got into kite boarding, at one stage i had an 16meter kite and an 11.2 meter kite! Was fun in high winds!

unfortunalty i am now really skint (fourth year at uni) so had to sell them, so have only a 2.5 meter kite, is fun to fly still

Boating, skiing, building & sailing model boats (tugs and subs, mostly - scratchbuilt, of course!), motorcycles (street & off-road), music...

Mainly windsurfing when I get chance.

Parents have a place in Spain which is a very good windsurfing spot (where I took it up) And they have just bought a place in down the road from Poole Harbour so another great spot to do it.

Get bored of doing it on Lakes in the UK when there are such great warm water conditions abroad.

Used to Ski but then took up snowboarding and been doing that for 5 years. Try and go a couple of times a year, end up organising the trips, last year there was 15, it was so good this year there is 30!

Oh yeah, used to the fly RC planes when i was younger!

Used to do a lot of R/C slope-soaring, but moving to East Anglia stopped that - not too many high slopes round here!

Have also done archery, plus full-bore pistol and rifle shooting. Also a bit of clay shooting.

Made a 5" gauge steam locomotive, followed by the Locost. These days the car takes up most of my time...

What next? Who knows...

David

In reverse cronological/importance order:

Gym (weights)
Squash
Photography/Video
Computers both for editing my photography/video and building/networking
Website design, build and maintain
Mountain biking
MK Indy (now on Phase 2 - repair/maintain only)
DIY Bathroom (home - everything)
RC Helicopter
RC Car(s)
RC Plane
Used to run until I ruptured a back disc...

Steve

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Hmm, let me think

Squash
Tennis
Mountain Biking
Motorsport (rallying mainly)
Computer gaming
Building PCs
RC Cars
Alfa Romeos
Good Food
Golf
Locosts
Totty Spotting
Fence Painting

Windsurfing
Surfing
Windsurfing
Uilleann pipes
Windurfing
Dogs (Irish water spaniels)

Chris

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Totty Spotting
Fence Painting

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Dogs (Irish water spaniels)

Chris

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Allot of R/C people on here!! Sweeeeeet!

Medieval and 10c Re-enactment

I was at hastings on the 24th with was a laugh at 800 a side and a big wee up after.

I'm in this lot, at around 3 mins 45 on the right hand side carrying a 3 segment green,brown,blue shield and sticking it at some french bloke with my big axe

Hastings from BBC website

Other than that:
Buying Pinto engines, screwing up pinto engines, buying more bits to replace screwed up bits.

Used to be into Warhammer, painting the little lead figures and all that. But now it's mainly persuading the Boss I need a new faster car! Oh, and gardening, something I swore I'd never do until I get a garden and it all changed.

A Few

DIY-----------------(built present house)
sea kayaking----( building own kayak)
locost-------------(built own car)
Lancia Spyder---(re-building car)
Drinking----------(may make own wine)
sex---------------- (no comment)

Used to do time trials as a teenager , then got into surfing around 1970 for about 10 years . Played a lot of squash , done a bit of rock climbing , white water kayaking ,wind surfing then really caught the skydiving bug , did about 600 jumps now it's just DIY and the car

Hobbies for me


Seem to work all the bloody time,
building me car,
riding motorcycles (just got a supermoto to play on over winter as well as a gsx1400)
mountain bike riding (try and keep fit ive become a lardy )
2 rotties
used to race f2 superstox

Web design
Lock picking
Snowboarding (well.... been about 6 months since i was on a board)

used to dabble in ....
Level design (Computer games)
Over clocking (PCs, making them go faster than they were designed to)

John

For me it's;
Car building
music Concerts and festivals
guitar playing
music in genaral
golf (Very rarely)
doing padi next summer in devon
DIY
gardening/fish keeping (pond)
local pub quiz

john.

R/C cars,
Fishing,
Crusing, (Yes i know, But was good in the old days up yarmouth and southend with the banging hardcore tunes)
Growing up

Spending most of my time now saving up for my new toy

Rhubarb thrashing and passing the splod.