My other hobby...What's yours?
 

So cars are definitely my biggest and most favorite hobby. But I do love going fast...and sometimes nothing is better than flying around on a dirt bike. The sense of being out in the open is just amazing.

Here's a little video I shot last week of a day trip I went on.

What are some of your other hobbies?

Cool video Tim (and thread idea), I love dirt biking too. Had been out of it for quite a few years until I got my kids each one and decided to try this thing:

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Quite a few years ago, my last bike was a CR 500, loved that thing.

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I also play as much tennis as I can and dabble in photography too.

Looks like a great day Tim! Man I miss my bike and the adventures....tended to get hurt in big ways every now and then, so I sold it. Miss it a lot thought.

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Figure I'll Hot Rod around in this Bad Boy next year as much as they will let me. I'll have to post up the when and where, so the you guys can come and out visit.

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Mine is in door I have a 180 gal aquarium with African cichlids in it from Lake Tanganyika.

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Curtis you have some sweet extra curricular activities going on there,I would love to see what it's like to fly in that baby.

Wayne ... now that's what I'm talking about .... "go big or go home"! Nice :king:

That trials bike is sweet! My uncle dabbles in trials from time to time. It would be fun to poke around on for sure.

I'm not as fast as I use to be...or how fast I think I use to be. I just go have fun. I'm happy to be on the bike enjoying the whole experience. I always follow the rule my Dad taught me "Always ride like you have to work on Monday." That tends to scale back the "I can easily clear this jump" mentality.

Ahhhh yes....fish! I was super into that for awhile. Mine was a 110 gallon tank, all African Cichlids as well. The black and white guys...forget their name now, but I had one of those too. He was my favorite. I sold my set up a few years back when I was dirt poor and moved. I should have just stuffed it in a corner at my parents!!! I'd love to get another tank here soon. My buddy actually has one waiting for me, I just need somewhere to put it now. I loved the African Cichlids, but I had the idea of doing a Rainbow Trout tank...sort of natural style. I gotta get a tank going first though.

I'll tell you, it's a lesson in balance and throttle control, and tons of fun. I got it because I've always wanted to try it and it's perfect for putting around with my kids who don't go that fast.

I've got a few hobbies. Surfing is my favorite, but I've raced motocross off and on for about 25 years, now I'm riding with my son.
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This was about 10 years ago:

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Some other hobbies:

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If I am on the crew when it heads out MA way you will have to come out. I'll give you a tour, let you sit in the pilot seat and make airplane noises for you.

You're Father is a wise man.

Perfect!

Great thread!

I've been a dirt bike nut since about 1971 when I first got a Yamaha 360 MX for motocross and with a tire change, TT and flat track.

I soon made the switch to Husky and never looked back.

My fave was a 72 Husky 360 8-speed. Of course it had a regular 4-speed box with a 2-speed primary that you could engage by pulling a lever on the bars.

Best of both worlds, and let me tell you, in high range with the right gearing it had some awesome top end!

It looked like this one:

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Does being awesome and drinking beer count

Sure it does.

Here's one of mine.

Riding indoors at Rays Indoor Mountain Bike Park.

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Marty-mj
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Now that is way awesome. I've never seen or heard of such a place! I suppose that's because here in SoCal there really isn't a need for one...but very cool.

That's another hobby of mine. Brewing my own beer! I don't do it very much since I'm not a huge drinker, so a batch lasts me quite awhile.

I star in porn films.

What Greg really does in his spare time...

I sold my Raptor last year because it wasn't the best for the places I was riding it. I want to get a YZ450F

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I like to snowboard

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I like to shoot, but don't do it enough and I'm not much of a marksman

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I do a lot of work on my house. I've re-modeled most of the interior. The kitchen is the most impressive.

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I'm also restoring my R1 that a kid wrecked. Kind of a long story, but I let a kid wreck it, sold it, later bought it back, and now I'm restoring it.

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What it originally looked like. 1st year for the R1 and white/red was pretty rare. It was always my favorite bike.

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My wife likes to bake. I mostly just eat, but I help a little.

The last wedding cake she made

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Cookies and pecan bars

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Another cake

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Cup cakes

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Brownies

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You might think I'd be a big old fatty as much as she bakes, but working out is my 2nd biggest passion next to building cars, so I stay in decent shape. I'll spare you guys the topless pics though. Most of what she bakes is given away, or ends up in the freezer and I just eat a little here and there.

That's a deal Curtis!
Tim, They are now called Cyphotilapia gibberosa Zaire Blue Moba used to be Frontosa. I bought them at 1" The big guy is now 15" long.

T_Raven I'm gaining weight just looking at them. Impressive work.

Who has the munchies now?

Your not going to pass the bar with cannabis head, oh, depends what bar you were talking about!?! haha

Frontosa! That's the name I remember. Mine was about 8" long when I sold it.

I run, kayak, race Karts & Cars!

My other vice.......guns guns guns!

My other main hobby is dirt biking as well. I'm not super good at it yet, but I love it. Other than that, running. I'm not that exciting :)

Same here, plus radio controlled models and photography.

I am a Brewmaster by trade ...so beer naturally. However I do love road racing motorcycles too. Here is a couple of shots of me in Europe (Aragon Spain & Cadwell Park in England).

This is probably a thread many are considering now, especially those of us enjoying the benefits of El Nino. Motivation comes a bit more slowly when the perfect weather eludes us for a couple of weeks. Now that I've dropped my main hobby of the past 1.5 years (law school), I can get back to things that I am more genetically predisposed to doing, like working on the car and making it function once again . . .

Like many here, I rode motorcycles for a period (on and off), 15 years or so. This is a pic of my last bike, a Kawasaki z1000.

There's also the mountain bike thing, which has been going on for more than 20 years--I've been primarily a single-speed idiot since the late-1990s.

I was into writing books for about a decade, too, so I'm considering that again . . .

Hockey, Snowboarding & audio stuff (I'm starting to collect quite a few pair of headphones and speakers haha) are the other things I like to spend my time on.

other Hobbies!!!

I play hockey!

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I wake board!

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I jet ski

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cruzin my boat

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I'm a pianist, and also enjoy baseball with my 12 year old son.

Lifting heavy stuff...

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and anything with my wife and kids

Nice job dude!

Get some wrist straps! That's too hard on your hands - and you beat them up enough as it is.....

The other day (we do strength testing once a month) I was doing leg press with 16 X 45# plates (720lbs). We work up to this weight of course - warming up with many reps at increasing weight - but I was able to do 5 reps at that weight. Any time I'm doing dead lifts etc -- I'm using straps to take that strain off my fingers/hands.

Uuuughh! Damn Chris!

Good for you for setting goals and achieving them, way to go!

Thanks guys...Greg you are right, all the big guys use straps. Started 18 months ago and love how I feel. better than in my 20's, reversed years of lower back problems from wrenching for decades.

Love the deadlift, but don't ever take a lesson from those crossfit nuts (I chop real wood every couple of days, so I live the crossfit dream). Speed and deadlifting do not mix. It's amazing what you can do when you put your rear into it!

New hobbies for the year, beekeeper and marijuana farmer....one I've got no clue about and the other won't sting me.
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