Audio as a hobby

I like bird hunting and training bird dogs. I also play the violin.

Okay...more bike talk

My bikes -- there are currently 7:

Road bike -- hand built Peter Mooney circa 1993 -- steel is real

Touring bike -- last of the handbuilt Treks, circa 1986 -- a dozen countries, countless miles, no original parts left except frame

Mountain bike -- Kona titanium frame, up to date parts as of about 1999 -- ti is great for a frame you don't want to break -- I broke my previous lugged aluminum frame

Tandem -- last of the tig-welded Santana Sovereigns -- again, steel

Folding bike -- Comotion Espresso with an S&S coupler -- fixed up as an interesting cross-bike -- had a custom builder put braze ons for cantilevers, Scott AT3 bars, friction barends, and the first generation Marzocchi 700c shock -- used it a bunch when I travelled for work, now it's 3000 miles away in my Mom's garage for the times I visit her

fixed gear -- piece of junk $100 Univega road bike with a lock wheel

beater bike -- funky painted old Rockhopper -- this is the bike that sees the most use now

I have a one year old, and I just bought a tot-trailer. Hopefully this purchase will signal the rekindling of my life on the bike.

7 bikes, 6 are steel. I guess you can see where my sentiments are.

On other fronts -- I play a lot of racquet sports -- badminton is the latest. I swim. I hike a bit. I like to sweat.

Audio passive? Do any of you dance? Not like ballroom, but more like Tom Cruise in Risky Business? I can't sit still for about half of what I play.

Oh yeah...I DJ too. Is this active or passive?

Rbirke, Curious....Are your racquets all made of wood?

Hi J:
Nice to see more racers around here. Hey I wasn't talkin about the tiny group of folks who race. Like I said, if your intersted in a wheel length after a few hour and have done the work on a bike to actually take advantage of the design go for it. So of course that's what's the pro's drive. Very few riderrs have much of sprint left in them after a couple hours of hard pace. Just racers really or folks who used to race. But those racing frames for the average guy it's like going out and getting a formula one chassis to drive around town in when you only have a 50 horse power engine.
Anyway, I wasn't talking about frames for someone with your time in the saddle. bang for the buck I still think steel is great and for a 47 yr old such as myself out of the competition it is as good a choice as any - but that means there are other good choices too.

Cheers, and keep ridin

Surprised:
NO amateur astronomers
NO Lionel train collectors
NO coin or stamp collectors
No reenactors civil war or otherwise
No R/C modelers
No model railroaders
No sailors or sailboat racers
No motorcylcists HD or otherwise
No antique car collectors or restorers, though a few racers
No recreational boaters, though a few ski
No gardeners
No recreational flyers, wing or rotor
NO furniture restorers or builders

Most of the responses were not hobbies but sports, which is
ok, but I was more interested in hobbies, which in my mind is doing something creative. Getting in shape and having a
a good time with it is a positive pursuit but not a hobby.