Interests or hobbies not related to motorbikes

[VMAXer]

Aside from motorbikes, what other interests or hobbies do you spend time on?

 

[Marauder03]

Just getting started trying some blacksmithing, just getting some of the needed tools. Started with a cheap anvil and mounted that to a stump the other day, looking at how to make a home forge at the moment. So many ways to make a forge it’s a little confusing. I’m with limited funds so this is a small budget start up, I’m looking forward to actually trying to make my own knife. Any advice is appreciated! This is a great thread!

 

[James t]

I've been an amateur astronomer for over 40 years, I have a 14 inch meade telescope, sometimes I go up North or out of the city lights and spend all night out there observing with my daughters. Here's a photo I took long time ago of m51 the whirlpool Galaxy , and the mighty Andromeda galaxy our closest neighbor, my wife and daughter say I'm not from this planet I agree I wasn't born on this planet I was dropped off,and muscle cars, That's my 1970 Corvette with the l46 motor 4 speed and t-tops all original even original paint only 19,000 miles, I also have a 1967 Buick GS, I'm also into vintage audio

 

[Dansmaxresto]

Items that go BANG…probably everyone on here has those…

 

[Fire-medic]

Items that go BANG…probably everyone on here has those…

Carbide cannons!

Or something of a larger caliber.

 

[CaptainKyle]

Cars , trucks and welding junk together

 

[bspellerin]

Besides the VMax, planes, cars, firearms, wood turning, distilling tasty things and chasing the wife around the house.

 

[Fire-medic]

Kyle I like the owl the best of those.

bspellerin, is that a 308 GTS? Do you live in an airpark neighborhood?

 

[bspellerin]

Kyle I like the owl the best of those.

bspellerin, is that a 308 GTS? Do you live in an airpark neighborhood?

Correct on both. '85 GTS QV and Eagles Nest (T56) just south of Dallas in Midlothian.

 

[user 16790]

it's great to see what other people do in threads like this, my other interests are dogs and making things with metal
here is a dragon that I am nearing finishing which has an eight foot wingspan and is made of scrap mild steel


I also make a lot of decorative items to donate to animal charities for them to auction and raffle to raise money,
these particular items are made in stainless steel which is my preferred material as it doesn't need painting but I also do them in mild steel, the pictures on them enable people to put their own pictures in if they choose to


I also paint and make one off hand made motorcycle 'body parts', some have been seen on my Vmax in past pictures but here is a grab rail and radiator cover that I made for my MT-03 660 earlier this year

 

[Fire-medic]

Great work! I enjoy your talent.

 

[hornhuntertom]

Yes on things that go bang. I spend most my time in the woods hunting or preparing to hunt. The buck pictured is this years October archery kill. I have 35 acres of hunting land with a camping trailer and garage about a half hour from my house.

 

[James t]

I also have lots of bang bang toys

 

[Dansmaxresto]

="James t, post: 525083, member: 78614"]
I also have lots of bang bang toys
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James t, if you had to pick just one of yours to take with you on a deserted island, which would you take?

 

[James t]

My sig Sauer legion 45, I have five 21 round mags for it, my everyday carry is a Springfield 1911.45 A1 model

 

[Zeus36]

... I also have a 1967 Buick GS, I'm also into vintage audio

One of my biggest regrets was passing up a deal on a 1972 GS Stage 1. I was working as a Millwright for Timken Steel and my co-worker built tractors for tractor pulls. He had the car sitting on blocks for 10 years in a barn. This was in 1981. Sea green, 455 CI, 4-barrel, 4 speed. All for 1500 bucks and he offered to toss in a free paint job. His kid was turning 16 and the guy did not want him to kill himself driving the car. I had just bought a Kawasaki LTD 1000 off the showroom floor, so I had payments. Kick my self constantly for not just getting it.

 

[James t]

One of my biggest regrets was passing up a deal on a 1972 GS Stage 1. I was working as a Millwright for Timken Steel and my co-worker built tractors for tractor pulls. He had the car sitting on blocks for 10 years in a barn. This was in 1981. Sea green, 455 CI, 4-barrel, 4 speed. All for 1500 bucks and he offered to toss in a free paint job. His kid was turning 16 and the guy did not want him to kill himself driving the car. I had just bought a Kawasaki LTD 1000 off the showroom floor, so I had payments. Kick my self constantly for not just getting it.

I had a 1971 Buick GSX 455 stage 1 all original

 

[Zeus36]

My other hobbies: Firearms before they got outrageously expensive, modifying pocket knives, fountain and rollerball pens, estate tobacco pipes and tobacianna, cigars, building computers, playing Call of Duty, Science Fiction from the 50's and 60's, collecting Flight Gear, Leather jackets, hobbyist machining and machine restoration, HP calculators, collecting tools, Indiana Jones gear, vintage Fedoras and 40's/50's clothing, Old West outfits and anything Star Trek.

 

[marsmax85]

Hunting
and fishing

 

[MrMAX1985]

RC airplanes-my current fleet. Most are powered with YS engines-all of the 4 strokes are supercharged, fuel injected .