What other obsessions do you guys have?

[chukiechz]

What else do you guys waste more money on than you really should?

Getting this bike will be my new tinker toy
here's my current money pit:

93 BMW 325. Engine replaced with a 97 3.2l M3 engine with RMS Stage 2 supercharger.



http://members.cox.net/blown325/sig.jpg

[Setter32]

My money pits...........are the porn sites..........................damn them..........

....................hope I make the mortgage payment this month..........


:D

[Kurt'sSV]

I play rugby. That can get pretty expensive with club dues, traveling, and lots, and lots of drinking.

[atul]

I've got 3 kids in private school. I burn the equivalent of two Porche 911 lease payments each month on it.

.....but it's ok....i'll sponge off them in my old age.

[Punkbrad]

putting my lady through college, keeping new shoes on the rugrat, making a house payment, keeping food in the fridge, two car payments, all sorts of insurance, doctors, dentists, make-up costs a f*cking fortune - why do i know this?? - school clothes, art suplies, bills, cell phones, taxes, shit.. i need a third job... im depressed...

but really, when i hear the roar of my SV hitting 9000 RPMs in second gear... it makes it alllllll worthwhile... my real money pit is my bicycles.. i build custom bikes...


DUMPED BIKES (http://www.geocities.com/dumpedbikes/home.html)

thats my money-sucker.. and carbon fiber stuff....

[Burst]

MY HOUSE.

Is it my obsession? Not really. Costs a fucking fortune tho, and the wife seems to really really really really like buying *stuff* for the house. So, that doesn't help.

My other hobbies(which have not had much attention since buying the SV).....

My music and RC boats & planes

[No_Brakes23]

Well, my one true love as obsessions go, is any kind of bicycling, but mainly, freestyle bmx.

[buymenow00]

I've got several obsessions...probably the most common one is music...have about 1300 CD's, now moving into MP3's when my iPod arrives next week! Contemplating some upgrades to the stereo system also, with a dedicated PC juker for MP3's...

I also have my pilot's license and am contemplating going for my instrument rating...anyone who's done this knows that this is a big commitment in time, frustration, and money.

My car USED to be an obsession...1992 325i that I had heavily modified (I feel your pain chukiechz!)...my current car remains stock since I have my SV to modify (much cheaper!).

Getting into art now, of all things...and this isn't exactly cheap either! Through the internet I've been finding some amazing talent!

Upcoming stuff:

- Skydiving next month on my 40th birthday! Woo hoo!
- Introductory aerobatic flying lessons
- Auto racing school to obtain my SCCA racing license

[Stinky]

When I used to paintball, I put in a couple grand in that, not including paint. Then I got into racing Nitro RC cars and put in around 2K in that. Since I got my bike, that's where all my money goes now and my other hobbies are just collecting dust.

[chukiechz]

Originally posted by Burst

My music and RC boats & planes

Im trying to sell my RC boat and helicopter to fund my future motorcycle payments!!! I figured the only way my wife was gonna let me get another toy was to get rid of some other ones.

[PasCaTT]

My biggest other obsession is my TT, followed closely by computers...which let me afford my TT. Also anime.

[ersigh]

Originally posted by chukiechz
What else do you guys waste more money on than you really should?

Getting this bike will be my new tinker toy
here's my current money pit:

93 BMW 325. Engine replaced with a 97 3.2l M3 engine with RMS Stage 2 supercharger.



http://members.cox.net/blown325/sig.jpg

Do you have a girlfriend??

=P~

[ersigh]

Hmmm...

Obsessions ...

I don't think I have any, unless worrying about my weight counts.

Hobbies on the otherhand ...

Photography I think is my second largest next to my bike. If all goes well, I will end up w/a camera system that costs about the same as my bike (but the camera will make me money) ...

For a long time I was really into my car, working on it so I could autocross it ... now I ignore the car. (bike is kewler)

I have a list of things I wanna get into but currently can't afford to ... when i can, I'll have to come back and respond ... :)

heh.

[supernes550]

Hey chukiechz, who did you motor swap? I was considering doing buying a used e36 and doing something to that sort. How much did the motor swap run you?

[dnakase]

http://www.socalsvriders.com/albums/album21/kendobogu.jpg

Hand stiched Bogu $1,500

http://www.socalsvriders.com/albums/album21/Picture_017.sized.jpg

Travel to Korea $2,000

http://www.socalsvriders.com/albums/album21/Picture_037.sized.jpg

Getting one's ass kicked Priceless

[Justlar]

Two wheeled obsession:
Mountain bike, road bike and a Triathlon bike. My poor car only sees the road when it rains.

[swll360]

Body-Boarding/Surfing.:D Lot's and lot's of it. Doesn't sound like it cost much but come time for a new board, the hole in the wallet get's alot bigger. If you guy's ever have a chance to take a trip, go to Austrailia, especially if you like to ride waves and/or Motorcycles. You can rent them out there for cheap.

[sandie]

knitting and sewing...
i collect and repair old sewing machines...specifically singers, but i have a vintage necchi and elna that i'm playing with at the moment
i am just learning jewelry making/metal working...and i am loving it...so i feel a new obsession coming on

[chukiechz]

Originally posted by supernes550
Hey chukiechz, who did you motor swap? I was considering doing buying a used e36 and doing something to that sort. How much did the motor swap run you?

the engine and tranny cost me $4500, labor was another $1500. A shop called SHO Shop did the work for me in Huntington Beach. They did all the work for European Car Magazine's project M3. Pretty happy with the quality of the swap. Definitely an improvement!! :)

[No_Brakes23]

Swll360, how's this for frustration.

On the way home from Operation Enduring Boredom, we stopped in Perth. I had an oppurtunity to go to Margaret's River on a three day surf trip. I couldn't go, because I'm not good enough to handle 4 meter swells breaking over a coral reef. (They evaluated us before the trip started.) What a shame, I won't be getting another chance to surf in Australia anytime soon.

[Britt]

I've noticed that all the people on this forum ride street, but don't see any riding dirt!!! Haven't any of you tried it? I've been riding dirt for about 3 years now and it's just as much, if not more of an obsession as street biking. Cali is the best place in the US for dirt riders. There's tons of tracks surrounding SD and also lots of desert! mmmmm sand!

[Monte]

ersigh said:
Photography I think is my second largest next to my bike. If all goes well, I will end up w/a camera system that costs about the same as my bike (but the camera will make me money) ...
Wow! That sounds like a cool system! Anything that costs that much must be cool, right? I always thought photography seemed fun, but I just don't think I have "the eye". That's why I like my digital camera. I can take a shitload of pics, and there are bound to be a few decent ones in there.

dnakase said:
Hand stiched Bogu $1,500
Travel to Korea $2,000
Getting one's ass kicked Priceless
Hah! Cool! Are those pics of you?

[Monte]

Underwater basketweaving and being a smartass.

I'd also say cars, but I've never really done a lot of mods to my cars - just drove the shit out of 'em. I'd like to get rid of my Integra (front wheel drive sucks!) and find a nice new affordable rear wheel drive car to auto-cross - my poor ol' Mustang has had it. Recently, this (http://www.kugelkomponents.com/focus.html) caught my eye. :D

[chukiechz]

Originally posted by Britt
I've noticed that all the people on this forum ride street, but don't see any riding dirt!!! Haven't any of you tried it? I've been riding dirt for about 3 years now and it's just as much, if not more of an obsession as street biking. Cali is the best place in the US for dirt riders. There's tons of tracks surrounding SD and also lots of desert! mmmmm sand!

I was initially going to start with dirt bikes instead of street bikes. But then I figured I would never ride cause it would take too much effort to drive up and find some trails.

[Kurt'sSV]

I used to ride dirt. I got my first dirt bike when I was 12, it was called a Honda Cub. Then I had a KX 125 when I was in highschool. This was all when I was living in Kansas.

I know Punkbrad started riding dirt bikes when he was real young and has lots of experience on them too.

Because of the cost of motorcycle riding, it seems like people do one or the other, but rare to do both.

[Britt]

Actually dirt biking can be pretty inexpensive. You can find a decent dirt bike for about 2000, riding gear on the internet or ebay, then gas money and a truck or trailer (or friend who has one) and head out! There's a really cool place that's good for beginners out past Alpine called Lake Morena (Corral Canyon). Also another great place to trail ride is McCain Valley right near Campo and Boulevard. As far as tracks go, the closest ones are Lake Elsinore, Perris, Amago, and Competition Park. These are all within 2 hours of San Diego. If anyone wants more info send me an email and I can tell you websites with more info or directions.
;)

[Denys]

Since starting to ride my latest obsession is motorcycles, but I've got others:

- most important - my kids
- Learning bass guitar
- Surfing - since 1961

Denys

[ersigh]

Originally posted by MrPython
Wow! That sounds like a cool system! Anything that costs that much must be cool, right? I always thought photography seemed fun, but I just don't think I have "the eye". That's why I like my digital camera. I can take a shitload of pics, and there are bound to be a few decent ones in there.


I think I have a decent eye for photography. I have no education in it ...

The system I'm looking at is digital. I switched to digital about 2 years ago ... recently sold my full professional 35mm set up. I just have no interest in it any more.

Digital is nice because you can take as many crappy pix as you want, and it doesn't matter. I have only recently in the past few months really started to enjoy that feature. I was so in habit of making my film count ... now I don't have to do that. Course part of it is simply that the camera I have now takes shitty pictures by default. (grumble)

I forgot to mention one of my other interests is music ... :) Only because it makes me happy ...

I think something I do get obsessive about is reading. I go thru phases of not reading, but when I get into it, I'm really crazy into it, tearing thru books, sometimes within a day or two, sometimes within a week or two (depending on if it's stephen king or ayn rand ...) ...

(mmmm ... music gooood).

[buymenow00]

I was so in habit of making my film count

Leigh - as someone who has also recently transitioned from 35mm to digital, and is also appreciating the "delete" feature, I have to say that there is still something to having to "make the film count"...a friend of mine edited a book of pics from the Vietnam War taken by communist photogs in the North Vietnamese Army. Apparently some of these photographers had only one roll of film to last...the entire war! Talk about having to make the film count! Some of the pictures are both shocking and amazing...check it out...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0128_020129vietnambook.html

[James]

The system I'm looking at is digital. I switched to digital about 2 years ago ... recently sold my full professional 35mm set up. I just have no interest in it any more.

I've been thinking about going digital but I'm too hooked on the silver. There's still nothing like film.

What are you shooting with now and what are you thinking about getting? I'd love to get a medium format rig w/ a digital back but just can't justify that kind of cash since I'm not shooting professionaly.

James - The Photo Ludite

[SVSinFV]

That is one sweet setup, I've always been into sleeper cars. My next project I'm going to install a 300ZX TT engine/trans in my Infiniti J30t.


Originally posted by chukiechz
What else do you guys waste more money on than you really should?

Getting this bike will be my new tinker toy
here's my current money pit:

93 BMW 325. Engine replaced with a 97 3.2l M3 engine with RMS Stage 2 supercharger.

[Motofrenzy]

My screen name didn't come frome street riding. It was born in the dirt. I love dirt track riding. This street thing is a lot of fun but nothing beats flying 30 feet in the air or skimming the whoops.

[Motofrenzy]

Me at Perris race way.

[Motofrenzy]

From Victorville with love.

[NukleoN]

My songwriting. I am signed to a label in Hollywood and am working hard on a CD to be released by the end of this year. It takes pretty much all my time outside of work. When the CD comes out I will spend a lot of time promoting it, getting copies to DJ's, and of course, working on new music and remixes for others. This takes a lot of my money too, and of course, still more time spent learning about the stuff I buy.

Check out my studio gear page (and it needs to be updated!).

http://www.nukleon.com/addguest/Stu-Gear/stu-gear.html

[Tine]

I'm really into SCUBA diving... LA has some of the best diving in the world, so that really works out for me. :)

http://sealion.org/tine/pics/?album=cozumel0205

I also have a canyon-carving car that I love to drive to work (since it takes me from PCH into the Canejo valley!) But I put too many miles on it, so I got a motorcycle again... :)

I did the skydiving thing a couple weeks ago. blah. between scuba and riding a motorcycle in LA traffic... it didn't live up to what I was expecting. It was fun, no doubt... but not worth it as far as thrills go. Although... I did get a 'free' t-shirt, so maybe it actually was worth it!

Tine

[Britt]

Originally posted by Motofrenzy
My screen name didn't come frome street riding. It was born in the dirt. I love dirt track riding. This street thing is a lot of fun but nothing beats flying 30 feet in the air or skimming the whoops.

Hey those are rad pictures Paul!!! Did I meet you this weekend at Palomar? Can't remember. Anyway, is that a 426? Where do you ride mostly, and do you race? Here's some pics of me and my boyfriend, check out my website.
We don't race or anything, but we love to ride! Got into dirt before street.
http://www.geocities.com/brittmccann2001/

[DanMan]

Definatley my car, although I've been neglecting it since I got the bike. And um, tools to work on my car (I do everything myself, otherwise its just no fun :D )

http://forums.i-club.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=220372

[supernes550]

Me and five of my friends just bought honda xr50s. It's a blast. Kind of funny too; when you see six grown ass men riding little xr dirt bikes. But it's fun as hell.

[quickstop]

Flying helicopters;real ones,at 150 dollars to 700 dollars an hour I don't get to do it much anymore.
Actually the motorcycle gives me the closest feeling to flying that I have found so far. They both have lots of similarities, insane amount of fun,but very unforgiving of mistakes...david:raise:

[mistermiata13]

Definitely my WRX. I've always been a car guy -- had 2 Jettas, 2 Miatas (one turbo with programmable ECU, rollbar, full sespension, etc.) and now the WRX.

Weekends are a constant battle between the SV and the WRX. With 2 toys and a girlfriend, time gets tight. This past weekend, the SV and the woman won out.

Aaron

[Punkbrad]

Originally posted by mistermiata13
Weekends are a constant battle between the SV and the WRX. With 2 toys and a girlfriend, time gets tight. This past weekend, the SV and the woman won out.

Aaron

Just imagine if you had only ONE toy and TWO girlfriends... it woudl make the current situation look easy.. hahaha :-?

[mistermiata13]

You have a point, Brad! So I guess I'm okay with this arrangement... for now. Don't want to rule out the two-girlfriend scenario.

Aaron

[swll360]

what if the one toy was your SV and the two Girlfriends took the bike???:( ha...ha

[ersigh]

Originally posted by James
I've been thinking about going digital but I'm too hooked on the silver. There's still nothing like film.

What are you shooting with now and what are you thinking about getting? I'd love to get a medium format rig w/ a digital back but just can't justify that kind of cash since I'm not shooting professionaly.

James - The Photo Ludite

I started w/some crappy canon that I sent back right away, then went to a 2.1 sony ... dsc something or other, then went to a Nikon Cool Pix 995 ... that thing sucked beyond anything, it was slow and loud and the color balance was shit ... then went to the Canon G1 which I was pretty happy with ... took some of my best pix with it ... that got squished and now I have the Sony M707 ... 5 megapixel, etc.

it's okay. Canon has the superior focusing system and I've never been able to really adjust to the sony being so slow ...

I'm planning to move up to the Canon SLR at some point, I don't remember the number, i think it's D60 or something. It's 6 megapixel. It's not the one I REALLY want, but it'll do ... :) It's 2.5 grand less than the one I really want. :)

Sony has very good optics. If you do not need a camera to take pictures while things are in motion ... sonys can be very good. Canons have good options, not as crisp as Sony, but negligably less ... Sony has a more rounded color balance, although I found it nearly impossible to get ANY color in sunsets ... Canons do blues VERY VERY well, reds are a bit weak ... but do capture color in wider lighting situations ...

I don't know much about any of the other brands. I am of the opinion that Fuji's take good pictures as well ...

All brands offer different options ... some record movies, some don't, some make movies without sound and some with, some have the screen and the view finger, some only have one or the other ... finding cameras with all the things that I wanted, was more difficult than anything else ...

Here is a very useful website for reading up on various cameras (this is linked to the one I want) ...

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews/d60.html

[mistermiata13]

Well if they were riding together, I could watch...

[swll360]

Originally posted by No_Brakes23
Swll360, how's this for frustration.

On the way home from Operation Enduring Boredom, we stopped in Perth. I had an oppurtunity to go to Margaret's River on a three day surf trip. I couldn't go, because I'm not good enough to handle 4 meter swells breaking over a coral reef. (They evaluated us before the trip started.) What a shame, I won't be getting another chance to surf in Australia anytime soon. My god.... I don't know what to say.

What do you mean by "they evaluated us"?

As far as "Operation Enduring Boredom" That is one of the funniest things i have ever heard cuz it so True.

[swll360]

Watching could be Good:D

[smokescreen]

So.... when I'm not riding, I like to spend my money in other less efficient ways.

1. Rally
2. Bowling (how 70's!!!)
3. Scuba
4. Paintball
5. Mtn Bike
6. Wrench
7. Hike/camp/outdoors
8. Travel
9. Snow Ski

[o4trix]

SURF!
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[sugart!ts]

I run, travel, read, and love to take long drives.

[soulofadra6o]

1. play computer games..well THE computer game world of warcraft)
2. hang out with friends
3. go do outdoors stuff like hike and build makeshift dams in rivers
4. paintball (till i sold my gun i hardly used lol)
5. model cars/bikes
6. console games
7. willing to do anything at least once if i think it's cool

[smokescreen]

everybody should build at least one, unneccisary makeshift dam in their lifetime. It's just fun!

[Aeteocles]

I like to do Boyscoutsy stuff:

Hike
Camp
Backpack
Rockclimb
Shoot

I also like to travel (ask me where I've been this summer)

and I like to read.

[Chris_az]

wrenching
reading
working
wishing i was on my bike

[ronin]

Judo and jujitsu

Riding and wrenching on bikes

Shooting things

Outdoors in general

[EIREANN]

Ohh Goodness

HMM

- RockClimb
- Hike
- Camp
- Surf
- run
- bike ride (becomming rare)
- snowboard
- crochet
- knit
- bake/cook
- work on car (when needed but its fun)
- hang out with friends
- occasional nintendo fest
- trying to get back in to swing dancing or may take up
belly dancing

[HoolieB]

For me, just a couple of things:

Horseback riding
Taking care of the horse (a full-time hobby by itself!)
Off-road and desert-related recreation and racing
Reading
Howling at the moon

[EviL]

Feeding my cat
walking at night
working.
:D

spending quality time with friends.

[sandie]

this thread should be merged to here

http://www.socalsvriders.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=718&highlight=hobbies

erianne...i knit too!

i also do metal work, jewelry making, and wrench on vintage sewing machines :|

it's like a mini motorcycle!!!

[HoolieB]

Everytime I see the word "wrench" my brain reads it as "wench". So at first blush, it appears lots of SCSVR members are seriously into wenching. And that's OK.

:D

[Jerm]

Just recently sold this money pit...

96 Camaro Z28/SS (http://ls2uploads.storagebin.us/uploads/354859889xbeegl_ph.jpg)

....was my canyon car, dumped way to much money into it (especially suspension), but it was fun :)

Now, I still do my first love, baseball. Play every Sunday morning for a league over in Long Beach :)

[Rocko]

i don't know if she posted this already, but i think michelle is obsessed with boobs

:p

[ward]

I'm obsessed with cheerleaders

does that count?

[sherides'em]

Well, since I sold the bike, my other obsessions ARE my obsessions :p

-Horses. Been riding for 15 years now.
-Reading. Nothing deep lately, but Im down to discuss Dean Koontz anyday!
-Occasional clubbin/dancin/drinkin
-Next thing I want to try: Mountain Biking!


This is a pic of me "laying down low on the tank" so to speak ;)

[Suprachrgd82]

That horse makes your ass look fast......



:D :p

[PeggySue67]

Originally posted by Setter32
My money pits...........are the porn sites..........................damn them..........

....................hope I make the mortgage payment this month..........


:D


dude .. there are FREE ones out there .. http://www.89.com even has daily changing movies with SOUND .. rawr :D

[EviL]

latex.

[soulofadra6o]

warcraft...im a geek in disguise :grin: