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Do you have hobbies off-the-bike? If so, what?

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Besides riding (or even just following the sport), what else do you do for fun? I've become a serious birder over the past 10 years and do field work on raptor and songbird populations, in addition to just watching and feeding the birds in my backyard. Also collect coins and currency. Have been gardening (ornamental, native) for almost 10 years, too. Unfortunately, I also waste a lot of time, too.
 
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joe_papp said:
Besides riding (or even just following the sport), what else do you do for fun? I've become a serious birder over the past 10 years and do field work on raptor and songbird populations, in addition to just watching and feeding the birds in my backyard. Also collect coins and currency. Have been gardening (ornamental, native) for almost 10 years, too. Unfortunately, I also waste a lot of time, too.
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I've sponsored a friend doing a bird-watch-athon to support is local Audobon society.
 
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I grew up on dirt bikes (off road motorcycles for those that dirt bike doesn't make sense) in the '70s and '80s. Mountain bikes have been my priority since 1990, but I've always had a motorcycle in the garage too (with the exception of the years that I tried to be a pro and didn't have money for a moto or have a place to keep it). I used to play men's rec league/Yball basketball through the winter, but my angry old feet won't let me do that now. I suppose my dogs have bee a hobby of sorts over the years too.

Joe, you should check out the World Center for Birds of Prey:

Visit | The Peregrine Fund

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I definitely wouldn't call it a hobby, but I spend time watching the raptors when I ride. They are a part of my escape.

EDIT: Its shocking how poorly I utilize time now...I think that my brain is just worn out so mindless wins out.
 
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Refurbishing wood is my current fave outlet/hobby (have been working on the wooden deck for the past couple of weeks) - using foul and toxic chemicals to strip prior stain is my least fave. But once you get to the sanding part with a rotory sander- oh yeah, baby, that I find relaxing!

PS - I love watching the many hummingbirds while I'm working outside and I try my best to stay out of their way. I do still have to work outside though, so, I think we've got a good and workable system worked out by now.:)
 
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Tricycle Rider said:
Refurbishing wood is my current fave outlet/hobby (have been working on the wooden deck for the past couple of weeks) - using foul and toxic chemicals to strip prior stain is my least fave. But once you get to the sanding part with a rotory sander- oh yeah, baby, that I find relaxing!

PS - I love watching the many hummingbirds while I'm working outside and I try my best to stay out of their way. I do still have to work outside though, so, I think we've got a good and workable system worked out by now.:)
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Nice!! Big desk or small desk? I have a couple of pedestal desks w/ deep tops and two sets of drawers that my parents bought in the 1960s from a railroad home office that was being closed, iirc.
 
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Red Rick said:
Yes. It's staring at a screen at men in lycra riding their bikes trying to win a shirt of a special color.
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I sometimes branch out; staring at a screen at women in lycra riding their bikes trying to win a shirt of a special colour/pattern.

Though, tbf, I've also watched quite a lot of atletics the last week.

But mostly I just like doing things to waste pass time.
 
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Nice!! Big desk or small desk? I have a couple of pedestal desks w/ deep tops and two sets of drawers that my parents bought in the 1960s from a railroad home office that was being closed, iirc.
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I'm afraid I haven't restored any fine antique furniture, just the wooden deck outside, the exterior of the woodshed, and a wooden gate. But cool you have some nice antiques! :)
 
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I try to read 5 hours per week. Enjoy 2 wheels, like to throw baseball and football in season. Take pride in making majority of my food at home. Enjoy hunting, fishing, surfing, camping, drinking. Try to listen to unknown music for @60+ minutes per week.
I too watch men in lycra, women as well.. I often take note of the distances and average speed. Time and distance up climbs of a certain grade. After I ride my bike, I often sit for long periods in shame eating snack cakes and downing energy drink and just accept my inability.. Watching inspiring Irishman today had me eat a smaller breakfast..
If shampooing dogs is a hobby, I do that also
 
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It's funny but in Mexico seeing someone throwing an American football is semi strange.. as pointing out throwing a regular football is just wrong.. American football where I live is popular on TV, seldom played, seldom played in school. And bizarre on another level.. Female flag football, Mexico has a very very good team
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P8zUlyg7DAg&pp=ygUZbWV4aWNvIGZsYWcgZm9vdGJhbGwgMjAyNA%3D%3D

Watching this is another hobby!! YouTube has almost all the international matches!!
 
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joe_papp said:
1. lol re. dog
2. What do you read?

I read a lot of military history and numismatics. Just picked up two new books at library this weekend, obtained via inter-library loan (one of best uses of taxpayer dollars imo (but that's also because I greedily benefit from the program hehe)!).
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I enjoy science books, current events ( politics, immigration, medicine, climate science, biography, history) I read about Mexican and American history. Part of my new family has a history in Spain of leaving under less than ideal circumstances over a @ century. so some specific books about Sephardic Jews.
I try to read a fair amount of current news about sports, world events, including weather and different economies. Currently I am studying Mexican political structure, sort of similar to American system w 2 Congressional bodies, a judicial branch and presidency.
I have lived in Mexico under 2 different presidents and going on my third, who is a Jewish wom,partially educated in US..Berkley!! She is also from a Sephardic Jewish background,
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The quaint pleasures of "On the Road With Charles Kuralt," now on DVD.

In October 1967, when Walter Cronkite's CBS Evening News was swollen with combat footage from Vietnam, a young correspondent named Charles Kuralt made...
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