Other hobbies

[rockinrayduke]

I collect '40's & '50's superhero comics.

[Highlander]

Now that is an (potentially) expensive hobby... 

I've been trying to trace a late 60's or early 70's short series that may have been either of the biggies about an android that may not have known what he was - very Phillip K Dick, but I just read it at a cousins house and he can't remember it at all...

... I (almost) resent Mountaineering being bundled under the same  banner as Base jumping.

I jumped out of a plane once (a Cessna 162/172...?) at about 2,600'... well... jumped is the wrong word... had to sit with my legs out the door whilst the engine was throtled back, grab the wing strut, place one foot on a plate above the wheel, lift myself out leaving my right leg trailing in the slip stream with my arms bent, and then look at the jumpmaster and await the command... "GO!" then push my self off... only six seconds of freefall before the tether pulled the chute... the second jump is worse... you know what's going to happen... oh yeah, I landed in the zone, too...

[Barklessdog]

I collect '40's & '50's superhero comics.

I used to read & collect comics. I grew up in the Kirby age. I stopped after the whole foil cover / Spider-Man clone saga.

Wish I had all my old comics. I was more a Marvel guy. See you at the Comicon!.

[SKATE RAT]

i still have all my comics(well most of 'em) mostly Marvel and DC from mid 70's - early 90's.

[gweimer]

I used to read & collect comics. I grew up in the Kirby age. I stopped after the whole foil cover / Spider-Man clone saga.

Wish I had all my old comics. I was more a Marvel guy. See you at the Comicon!.

I was into comics pretty heavily during the '70s.  While I might say I was a Marvel guy, I found a lot of the DC comics then were really cool.  I was a big fan of The Demon, Mister Miracle, Kamandi, The New Gods, Forever People, etc.  A lot of the Kirby stuff.  I remember when Marvel lured Jack Kirby away from DC to revive Captain America.  I had the first issue he did for that at one time.

[Muzikman7]

In a past life my brother & myself had a large collection of comics we use to keep in a cherrywood toy chest, one summer while spring cleaning my mother and father decided to throw the chest & comics away. My father had a '57 Chevy he also wanted to get rid of so he put the chest in the trunk and buried the car on my grandparents farm.

[Denis]

Ouch, that stinks. Ever wonder what condition those things are in now?

[nofi]

that sounds like the beginning of a stephen king novel.

[Highlander]

Might it still be there...? (cue doom laden music  )

[Denis]

Over the weekend I scored a part of one of the Indians I'm restoring. It's the dash panel for the Model 841 shaft drive bike Indian designed to try and get the government contract for military motorcycles during WWII. Unfortunately for them (and Harley and Cushman who each submitted designs), Willys proposed the Jeep.

Here's a pic but I'm almost embarrassed at what I had to pay to get it. at least it still has the data tag and ignition switch (it's missing the idiot lights). In the 11 years I've been collecting parts for this bike, it's only the second dash I've ever seen for sale.

[godofthunder]

That sounds like a fun hobby restoring old Indian Bikes. That panel is some find ! I bet you were stoked when you scored it !

[Denis]

That sounds like a fun hobby restoring old Indian Bikes. That panel is some find ! I bet you were stoked when you scored it !

Man, I can't even begin to tell you how lucky I feel to have won that auction! With 3 minutes left some guy put in a huge bid and I spent the next 2 min 55 seconds putting in bids only to find I was STILL too low. I got it with 3 seconds to spare... Indian only made 1000 of those bikes so some of the parts are made of unobtainium so luck has everything to do with it. Indians are a lot of fun to work on but I've really had to change my mindset and how I go about it. For instance, Indian used some thread pitches which were discontinued around the time of the Korean War in order to improve standardization, so some of those good ole SAE bolts I can't find at the hardware store.

[JimB52]

I collect and hybridize hosta, and spend as much time as possible on a boogie board.


I have about 200 varieties, and perhaps 8-10 that I have bred and plan to register with the AHS






Some of my breeding stock



At Surf City LBI, enjoying Hurricane Bill This was a monster wave. My son, who took the picture got hammered.

[Highlander]

They must be a pig to keep safe... slugs love 'em... (unless you keep a salt trench round the patch... )

[Denis]

They must be a pig to keep safe... slugs love 'em... (unless you keep a salt trench round the patch... )

Or put out a few saucers of beer. Slugs LOVE beer! Plus, if it spills no harm done to anything else growing there.

Jim52, those hostas are terrific!