What are your hobbies?

giomaiele

How are you guys?

I have been feeling lately like I'm constantly hunting for stuff to do on the little time I have free during the day. Yes, I love guitars, pedals, etc, but sometimes I feel like it's "more of the same", if you know what I mean?

I want to get into a new hobby and I was wondering what like minded people (gear heads) are into apart from music and guitar gear?

I'm quite a nerdy person, love tech-y stuff, programming, radios, cameras, games, cooking, etc. And I have been struggling lately to find something I enjoy to do either indoors at home or outdoors - or even online!

I'm curious to see what you guys are into ! 

Thanks for taking the time and have an epic day.

Gio.

TheMarlin

Playing guitar

Petepassion

Motorcycles, martial arts and sex.

RaymondLin

Photography, if you are gear nerd, there are hundred + years of tech to dived into.

DrCornelius

It sounds very Victorian but Ive really got back into reading and its probably the most relaxing thing I do.  Currently reading a great book about the conflict between the church and the burgeoning archeology movement in the 1800s and how science started people questioning the creation story

VimFuego

outside of music I guess my hobbies are mostly reading, hiking and stalking the streets cleansing them of the filth, corruption and depravity of modern society. 

snowblind

Asking people about their hobbies and generally collecting personal information so I can steal their identities for fun and profit.

RiftAmps

I go racing, it's the only thing that scratches all of my competitive and technical itches. Winning races with a car and engine that you built yourself? Yes, please.

AlbertC

Songwriting/recording, reading (mainly fiction), cryptic crosswords, walking, birdwatching 

fastonebaz

Guitarist
Gigging
Recording
Video editing
Welding
Forging knives
Casting bronze items
Motorbike racing
Fly fishing


Although most of the time I just watch Netflix and eat chocolate.

munckee

I live by the beach so kayaking and paddle boarding for the summer, running and cooking all year round.

stickyfiddle

Music is the big one of late, which covers anything from listening, playing, going to gigs, playing gigs, recording, etc etc. But I'm also big on travel, cooking, and photography when the mood strikes, though it hasn't much since COVID. I love a good bit of gaming, but struggle for time there a lot these days. Lego is also brilliant but again judging by the number of unopened boxes I have that's not 

Actually one of the main things is tinkering. Making stuff, mending stuff, taking things apart... A lot of that is music-oriented with pedals and guitars etc, but I designed a bunch of furniture in 2020/2021 which was a fantastic thing to do. I wish I had a workshop and a shitload more time to do that more often. 

@Riftamps the Mazda is awesome but what we all really want to see is closeups of the Nova behind you   

Revolutions

I read lots, listen to vinyl (& accidentally collect it), take photos with an old 35mm SLR, build cheap pedal kits from time to time, lift weights, box (2 sessions if I can: 1 bag, 1 sparring), write sometimes, spend a lot of time hanging out hugging my dog & doing walks with her.

what I wish my hobbies were:

Petepassion said:

Motorcycles, martial arts and sex.

Petepassion

Revolutions said:

I read lots, listen to vinyl (& accidentally collect it), take photos with an old 35mm SLR, build cheap pedal kits from time to time, lift weights, box (2 sessions if I can: 1 bag, 1 sparring), write sometimes, spend a lot of time hanging out hugging my dog & doing walks with her.

what I wish my hobbies were:

Petepassion said:

Motorcycles, martial arts and sex.

But does highly greaten the risk of broken bones, knackered joints, STD's and death.

RiftAmps

stickyfiddle said:

@Riftamps the Mazda is awesome but what we all really want to see is closeups of the Nova behind you   

It's an unbelievably well-prepared car and the owner, Jason Wood, is the nicest guy you'd ever meet. I had to chase him down for the win at Silverstone and he can certainly pedal a FWD Hot Hatch!

Fun fact, it's not a GTE chassis but a standard car converted to GTE spec to make it eligible for his championship. Genuine GTEs are both too rare and expensive to risk turning into a race car that can be ploughed into a barrier and written off at any minute.

CHRISB50

Hiking
Weights
Sport climbing 

dazzajl

I play some guitar, take some pics and find increasingly successful ways of avoiding human interaction. 

All with as little tech as possible, as that’s the work world. 

Shrews

Horse racing. Trying to fathom out the unfathomable from a huge array of stats is the ultimate puzzle for me.

Going to the races. I have now been to 57 of GB's 60 racecourses and will finish the other three this year, plus maybe the 2 in NI.

Danny1969

My work is my hobby, I love designing gadgets, building them, testing them. I’ve been working on a fence panel that uses the wind to create a low frequency AC current … lot of potential and really interesting, 

Drinking beer on the beach is a summer hobby. I’m on the beach now as I type this and it’s almost time for a lunchtime beer. 

Quantum physics is another love. I spend about 15 hours a week listening to the lectures and reading various papers. It’s a hobby that only requires thought so quite a cheap one. 

crunchman

Arguing with idiots online!**

I really should find something better to do with my time.


** there are a lot less idiots on here than there are on Facebook.

fretmeister

A little bit of gaming.
Films

I spend all day at work reading in some form or another so I haven't read a book for years. I really miss it. I have a big library of audiobooks but I often just end up falling to sleep unless I'm in the car.

I haven't even played a lot of music lately since I quit my band. Sometimes I miss it, but at the moment I'm very much enjoying having weekends with nothing to do.