Do you think other hobbies have GAS like we do?

hobbio

+1 on the mountain biking, but I'd also include road cycling too. 

Octahedron

The question is what do they call it? 

So I've seen... books, home audio, plugins and mountain biking mentioned here. 

What do they suffer from? 

"I suffer from BAS" or "I suffer from PAS" or "HAAS" just doesn't sound the same as GAS!

blueskunk

Class As

guitarfishbay

My mate works in outdoor clothing... You can buy 'approach socks' - then what do you wear ?? Went hiking with him last year and he brought 3 different pairs of gloves and two different jumpers which he swapped between. I'd say my one of each system saved me weight but I'm a couple of stone heavier to start with lol...

Dave_Mc

I suspect it depends on the hobby (some hobbies probably do require very little kit), but any that do require lots of kit, I suspect it's the same.

Philly_Q

I'm interested in some of these things but I don't get obsessed with them like I do with guitars.

Home audio/video for example.  When I need a new TV or Blu-ray player or something, I'll spend a few weeks intensively researching it and get the very best I can in my price range.... but once I've got it I keep it until it breaks.  And only then do I go through the process again.

digitalscream

Definitely. I know a gunsmith (officially an arms dealer, actually, just a legal one) who makes really high-end gun parts. He can charge up to £15k for a trigger mechanism or precision rifle barrel, and he's not even at the very top of the price range for that sort of thing.

HarrySeven

Absolutely, yes.

Some time ago, I used to be a major collector of vintage coin-op video games:








At one point, I had over 60 in the house/gamesroom/workshop, with numerous other stored all over the place (at work, in friends garages, barns, etc).

I regularly used to travel all over the UK, picking up machines, plus imported them from Europe, USA, etc. GAS was a major factor.

I've only got about 15 now, plus a few pinballs - all in storage.

impmann

Hillman Imps.

I've owned more than 160 of them.

Yes, really.

I need a life...

Richardj

My partner and daughter have a horse each, plus a shared one. Food, hoof care, rugs, saddles, bridles, trailer for transporting horses, decent vehicle for said trailer. Endless money pit.

stickyfiddle

Richardj said:

My partner and daughter have a horse each, plus a shared one. Food, hoof care, rugs, saddles, bridles, trailer for transporting horses, decent vehicle for said trailer. Endless money pit.

My sister spent so much on horses she started her own business selling stuff to horsey people...!

mike_l

impmann said:

Hillman Imps.

I've owned more than 160 of them.

Yes, really.

I need a life...

I really can't guess where your username came from....

fretfinder

GAS = Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Then you can apply it to any obsession you like!

ROOG

Cycling for sure, for a start you need more than one, they wear out so you regularly have a need to upgrade bits. The bits get increasingly blingy and of course that makes you go faster! Then you have the summer kit, the winter kit and lights and cameras and gps and heart rate monitors. worse than guitars? For me probably.

Flanging_Fred

I was going to say that surely this is more to do with just being a bloke. But then I remembered handbags and shoes. People just want. MORE.

rlw

One word

Porsche

Gave them up two years ago and actually have cash now.  My last one - Mk1 GT3 - went in for service and was going to cost around £500.00 as there was so little to do - except maybe the oil leak which would be an engine out job but, while the engine was out, we could fix whatever else we couldn't easily see now.

£5500.00 later I drove it home..............

Neil

I think anything men get involved with has a GAS attachment!

I don't do it but people I know spend a grand on a fishing pole and are forever buying bits and pieces.

My other hobby is wristwatches, I have bought a lot over the years but fortunately I have a good profit in all of them as interest has increased over time. 

I did swap one that cost me £140 for my Les Paul standard. 

midlifecrisis

my correlation is the more I gig and jam and get out and actually play the less interested in gear and GAS I am. when im not gigging is when I start looking at equipment and trying to spend money

VimFuego

S&M and other fetishes can really start to rack up the equipment.

mike_l

Neil said:

I think anything men get involved with has a GAS attachment!

I don't do it but people I know spend a grand on a fishing pole and are forever buying bits and pieces.

I do, but I only get the stuff I'll actually use. I see little point in carrying 8 rod etc the the lakes and using the same one every time.

Last "big spend" (£500) was 2 new pike rods, reels and kit, cos some thieving fuck nicked my last lot from my shed. That was 3 years ago.........