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So as well as mountain biking what else do you enjoy doing? I like to do a bit of rock climbing, road cycling, building and flying quadcopters, building computers, tinkering with cars. I would like to try scuba diving and kayaking also.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:02 pm
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Watching Rugby League, Music, Food, Films and Beer


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:06 pm
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Guitars, skiing and games.


 
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coke and hookers


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:07 pm
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Karate and cooking, but not at the same time.


 
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VW things, trains, fishing, Leeds United and a bit of running .


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:09 pm
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**** ing


 
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Angling 🙂


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:11 pm
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Karate and cooking, but not at the same time.

Shame, you could've got on to Gregg Wallace, he keeps telling us "COOKING DOESN'T GET ANY TOUGHER THAN THIS!!"


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:14 pm
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Beer
Food
Driving yeah I'm sad.
Computers although not so much these days
Video Games
Movies
Photography although I've lapsed
Walking
Beer
Food


 
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Photography although I've lapsed

Time-lapsed?


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:18 pm
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Getting quite into sleeping lately.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:19 pm
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Fishing, hill walking, back/bikepacking and playing in the woods pretending I'm Ray Mears.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:20 pm
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although I've lapsed

I've lost count of the things I've lapsed. Over the years I've been a bit Pokemon with hobbies, I'll try anything but lack the ability / attention to keep them up for long.

I've variously been into power kiting, field archery, rock climbing, running, skydiving, photography, I could go on. I still occasionally run or fell walk or wild camp but these days my hobbies are mostly TV / movies / Xbox / reading and other wildly exciting things.

Out of the lot of that, I miss climbing the most. I really should do something about that.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:22 pm
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I used to be into mountain bikes, but that lapsed as well......


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:27 pm
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Don't do cycling any more (although I'm tempted to explore the area we've just moved to on my bike) but love

Botany
Birdwatching
Walking
Foreign travel when time and money permit
Exploring WWI and WWII sites and cemeteries
Aeroplanes
Cars
Steam railways (preferably narrow gauge and on the continent)
Good food and wine


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:29 pm
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Brew beer
Catch/kill (and usually eat) a variety of Britain's tasty wildlife
Wakeboard
Ski
Sail
Watch binners while he sleeps

(Julian, let me know when....! Looks like some good riding around there!)


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:29 pm
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other?


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:33 pm
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thinking about cycling.
thinking about future cycling holidays.
thinking about bike upgrades I can buy.
planning future bike routes.
dicussing cycling with other cyclists.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:34 pm
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Watch binners while he sleeps

He's so peaceful isn't he?


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:35 pm
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@CFH - I'm around from next week as my contract finishes on Friday! I'll be rather slow as I haven't cycled for ages though...

Also, I'm in your 'hood on Monday and at a loose end for a few hours - coffee?


 
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Watch binners while he sleeps

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Hard to miss...


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:40 pm
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Will email.

Monday good for now! I can move my office to the crossroads for a while easily! 🙂


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:40 pm
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Swimming. Old bones and hypermobility lead to many aches and pains, kept at bay by 3- 5k a week of front crawl in the pool. Clears the mind well and is I think a good compliment to cycling.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:43 pm
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Bit of this..

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Bit of that..

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Observing and reading about trains,buses and coaches,

Meeting interesting people and helping them and listening to their problems with life/machines and family.


 
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I never had you down as a trainspotter.


 
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haven't ridden my bike in a little over a year. so to (sort of) make up for it, I do spinning classes 2-4 times a week. Not as good as getting out there but better than couch potatoing

I also do:

brewing beer
playing drums
listening to music. Particularly New Model Army, Foo Fighters, Killing Joke etc
SF
R/C helicopters (lapsed)
scale models


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 6:55 pm
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My pastimes seem fairly consistently based around things I'm crap at. I think if I ever found I was good at anything, I'd die of shock.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:11 pm
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Enjoy cooking, fishing, riding my motorbike, running, brewing and the following activity drinking my home brew, watching tv mainly sport


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:17 pm
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Pc gaming, ice hockey, but also mess around with pcs, guitars, photography.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:17 pm
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Spend all my time with my wife and two girls. Other than riding from time to time, working and sleeping, no time for anything else. I'm always amazed when these threads come up how many people with families manage to fit all these other pastimes in.

I'll always choose to spend my spare time with my family.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:20 pm
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Fiddling with cars
County Cricket
Boxing
Pornos


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:24 pm
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Road biking
Travel - when I can afford it
Gym especially circuit classes and spin
Yoga
Volunteering - I'm a trustee of two organisations and for 7 years did some volunteering for the Prince's Trust
Walking - but don't seem to have much time left to do it


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:27 pm
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Cross-fit,coke an hookers 🙂

Or running badly and wandering around with dogs and a bit of weight training when not running.
(Don't really like running but due to eye thing - bleph 🙁 like to be spend more time outdoors than indoors)


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:31 pm
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I probably spend as much time on the road bike or CX these days compared to mtbing. I've really enjoyed getting involved in road racing and CX it has become a bit consuming.

When not on a bike

Hill walking
Horseriding

Travel when it works normally combining with Hill walking/Horseriding or cycling.


 
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My main hobby today has been smashing a laptop into a thousand pieces.
On other days when I'm not as angry I have 3 main hobbies
MTB
Walking/rock climbing/mountaineering
Slalom waterskiing

Also in an archery club, but don't consider it a hobby as such, just a means to get out in the sun and relax, without the physical exercise.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:38 pm
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Motorcycle trials, RC crawling, RC aircraft, micro sloping.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 7:41 pm
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I'm always amazed when these threads come up how many people with families manage to fit all these other pastimes in. I'll always choose to spend my spare time with my family.

They're not mutually exclusive. Fortunately my kids want to join me fell running, climbing & kayaking as well as biking. That's ace.


 
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compete and organise motorcycle trials, compete and organice classic car trials collect motorcycles/cars take daughter all over for british fell racing championships follow scarborough football home and away.. spend every waking hour on here and i m sucessful at not getting caught with coke or hookers


 
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Before MTBing I used to do a lot of shooting, game in season and clays competitively, and a great deal of vermin shooting. The time costs of shooting mean that while the kids were younger and needed constant ferrying around the kit more or less lay idle in the cabinet, but now they both have their own cars and I'm too injured to ride, there's been a bit of a renaissance. My lad has treated himself to a new shotgun with a legacy from his Granny, so we've been clay shooting to get him ready to share my gun on the game syndicate come September,.

Technology has moved on, so I've now rigged the landy up for full covert IR driving using IR cameras and cheap reversing monitors, and IR scope on the rabbiting rifle, rather than lamping. Just waiting for some decent weather and then we're off ! Also well on the way to a cheap IR hack for my lad's air rifle, just waiting for a camera I've ordered and it'll be good to go for a bit of pitch dark ratting.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 8:10 pm
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Skiing
Flying Rockets
and currently avoiding multirotors, but will end up wasting money on that too


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 8:18 pm
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Oh, rocketry, that's another lapsed hobby.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 8:24 pm
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Struggling to think of any at the moment perhaps ...

Cooking
Coffee & Tea preparation then drinking them. 😆
Cars - Japanese made only.
Knives - all sort.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 8:28 pm
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Listening to music.
Playing the guitar.
A bit of cooking when I'm allowed.
Go to the gym a few times a week.
Beer and web porn (The downturn in the oil industry means I've had to knock the coke and hookers on the head for the time being)


 
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Music, into 80s stuff at the moment
Gym
Walking the Dogs
Messing with the Van

On my geeky side, old railways and watching bridges and new roads being built 😳 my mate takes the mick all the time out of me...


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 8:58 pm
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Big hitting.
Odd bit of creative stuff like drawing, enamelling, photography.
Lapsed runner.
Usual stuff like cooking beer wine diy films reading and sex.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:02 pm
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Running, reading, summer walking in the Alps, listening to music.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:03 pm
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Model railways

Always surprised at the number of folk with an interest in trains on here!


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:03 pm
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Apologies for being dull, just want to ensure we're all aware that OP is just a research/password/identity harvester. 🙂


 
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Odd bit of creative stuff [s]like drawing, enamelling, photography.[/s] with cutlery

😉


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:10 pm
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Always surprised at the number of folk with an interest in trains on here!

Same here. Trains are ace.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:13 pm
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IT WASNT A SPOON 😡


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:20 pm
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I wish I had space to build a OO layout to run my collection of BR blue loco's. It'll have to be a hobby of the future.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:25 pm
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Road cycling, reef keeping, RC nitro cars/trucks and skateboarding/ ripstik


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:33 pm
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@bear

I don't get this? You've flagged up a couple of these in the last week or so.

What does the OP get from it? Am I in danger of losing something by replying 😳


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:35 pm
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Hmmmm, odd second post from a new member....


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:44 pm
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I play badminton. I do all my own car maintenance and have renovated several in the past.
Currently I'm renovating this sadly neglected 1954 Colchester Student lathe [img] [/img]


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 9:57 pm
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Have one of those in blue at work fruitbat 😀


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 10:16 pm
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Flying kites, single line and Revolution

When I'm not cycling, I may sometimes be found coaching cycling 😳

Oh and I can ride a Ripstik too 😀 - learnt aged 45, never looked back (or down)


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 10:16 pm
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Apologies for being dull, just want to ensure we're all aware that OP is just a research/password/identity harvester.

Umm I'm definitely not a "research/password/identity harvester".

Hmmmm, odd second post from a new member....

Also not sure why this is an odd second post? Please let me know what a normal second post would be.


 
Posted : 28/07/2015 10:47 pm
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Second posts these days tend to be either;

I'm a newbie - should I buy the new carbon or aluminium Santa Cruz?

Why can't we just shoot poor people? They make my skin crawl.

Or

Hora - he's not really real is he?

I like gardening, fishing, cameras, guitars, Lego and deliberately dropping packets of crackers in the supermarket, then putting them back on the shelf.

S'all anarchy, innit?


 
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Just moved from New Mexico (great MTB) to Southeast Washington State (not so good MTB in close proximity in this part of the state), so am forced to realign primary hobby to kayaking and making MTB second I guess.
Pot is legal in Washington, so I guess I could make a hobby of that 😀


 
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Read a lot, drink a bit, hike a bit.

I recently read a biography of a pioneering woman aviator which was clear that "swearing" and "wearing trousers" were hobbies, so I'm having those also.

Sleeping and jerking off definitely aren't hobbies, but are quite time-consuming.... 🙂


 
Posted : 29/07/2015 2:12 am
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My other hobbies include putting off DIY jobs for another weekend & 3y/o boy wrestling.
Glad to know that I'm not the only one who finds it pleasing to see a good bridge or new road being built. I also like demolition. 😀
Come to think of it , I quite like pottering around in the garden too.


 
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3 years ago when this was asked I could answer "semi-pro football and cricket to a good standard too", my answer is now, "err, just cycling, and not even mountain biking either, road and occasional CX".

Football has fallen away due to a couple of teams I played for folding and cricket was knocked on the head as spending 8 hours in a field every Saturday of the summer just wasn't that appealing any more.

I do cook a lot though, often for pleasure, not sure if that counts.


 
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I wish I had space to build a OO layout to run my collection of BR blue loco's. It'll have to be a hobby of the future.

N gauge is your friend!


 
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Free time slowwwlly has been taken over by Geocaching. Blimey its addictive! Just started roping up and getting up trees to find tree based caches too 😀

TM


 
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Running as an alternate exercise, playing both Xbox and guitar badly, and for a bit of intellectual stimulus I "study" (in a sort of Victorian Parson sort of way) paleoanthropology

There are jokes about salhelanthropus and ardipithicus that has them rolling in the aisles, but I'll spare you


 
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Art, painting and painters.
Oil painting (primarily tonalist and impressionist landscapes)
Photography/fine art printing
Sustainable/renewable tech
Lightweight camping
Travel/touring (bike, foot, train, bus, hitch, even late-night Google Street-View on the tablet when funds/circumstances prohibit physical travel)
Volunteering
Conservation
Zoology/wildlife study and observation
Philosophy/Psychology
Zen Buddhism
Music (making and listening)
Kayaking
Cooking
Walking (now curtailed by disability yet still enjoy short walks in life and long-ones in dreams)
Excercising on Kangoo-Jumps
Swimming, both wild and pool laps


 
Posted : 29/07/2015 9:39 am
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Where to start?

I do a bit of FT/R and clay shooting when I have time, do a bit of work for the Army when I don't. I do a fair bit of Crossfit during the week, but other than that, not much. Maybe some kayaking now and then and some camping on the odd weekend.


 
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taking photos of places that I shouldn't be in
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mhampshire/albums


 
Posted : 29/07/2015 11:02 am
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Powerlifting.
Drinking.


 
Posted : 29/07/2015 11:56 am
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Video games, tabletop roleplaying games, (not) making model kits. I like aviation museums and air shows too. I have always listened to music a lot and I go to quite a few gigs by some peoples' standards. I read quite a bit, generally sci-fi and fantasy. As I'm 6'3" tall I in total definitely qualify as a big geek.


 
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Sofaking - those photos are stunning! 😮

My other interests are music - mainly psytrance and techno and I enjoy reading.
I play guitar and mix on CDJs sporadically. (Read that as - hardly ever these days!)


 
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Working on my cars, hanging out with my buddies at the local diner, chatting to Mrs Cunningham...no wait, that's the Fonz.


 
Posted : 29/07/2015 12:25 pm
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old cars
thinking about doing woodwork
thinking about travelling

I know times ticking, but lack of decent health and cash are what I need to sort out first


 
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Sofaking - those photos are stunning!

Agreed!

I was into photography for a while, and that was the sort of thing I aspired to...I just couldn't set aside the time and effort to find and go to places to photograph.

Sofaking, you should publish a coffee table book or something.


 
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