So What Are Your Other Hobbies???

[redfordie 0]

I have a couple of hobbies to keep me occupied. I dabble in photography, i love old motorbikes. My favourite bikes are japanese like honda's and suzuki's from the seventies and early eighties. My last bike was a Honda CX500A 1978 which i stripped down and rebuilt. Dont get me wrong, some new bikes are pretty but you need a BA in engineering to work on them. I prefer things with carbs (food too!), points and pushrods etc, much more enjoyable to work on. My other interest is drawing. i have always loved WWII aircraft nose-art so i love drawing good lookin' women Im self taught and am still learning and love the curvy female form ( no skinny chicks!) here's some photos of my work and a pic of my last bike:

Me and my machine ('scuse the t-shirt!):

In the park at a show:

In the town show with some other classics:

[KyBlue 655]

Thats a clean lookin Honda!! man its amazing to me how much they have changed over the years (bikes in general)

[redfordie 0]

If i came up trumps on the lottery, i would love to have one of these in my stable:

Honda CBX 1000 24valve 6cyl!!

[DMESS 24]

Beautiful bike! It looks mint, so you must do some nice work. I've seen a CBX in person and they are incredible machines.

Here are the Honda's my wife and I had before our child was born. (They left before she arrived ) Probably too new for your taste, but Honda's non the less. I put 17,000 fantastic miles on mine before I sold it. I miss it and I hope to have another bike at some point in the future.

My 99' F4

Her 01' F4i

[redfordie 0]

Strangely, i actually learned to ride a "big" bike on a CBR600 before i got the CX. During a 3-day intensive riding course, the bars gave me Tenosynovitis in my right wrist so bad, when i passed my test i couldnt ride a bike for two weeks. however i could still hold a pint glass in that position so spent 2wks drinking the pain away :whistle:

[Curmudgeon 28]

This is TOO WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have two brothers... one used to own a... CX-500. Nicknamed it the Pregnant Turtle. He rode that sucker to California and back, twice. I even borrowed it for a couple weekenders with my at the time girlfriend. (seems there was a burned piston in my Honda 750 dual overhead cam, wonder how that happened? )

Second brother had, get this! A CBX! The first model year, I don't remember what year that was though. Up until then he'd had a 750 Honda single overhead cam, which on a good day (I'm a lot bigger than he is) I could beat with my 900 Kaw. The CBX ended that dual, until I got the Honda V-65 Sabre, and once again, the race was on!!! By now we're both running well into the 11's on regular gas with bikes we also took on vacation. COMFORTABLY!

Only the Japanese could build a build a motorcycle like that.

Yes my friend, I've ridden both of those motorcycles, many a time. :horseplay:

[DMESS 24]

Amazing sometimes how interwoven a buch of stranger's interests can be! And Dale is certainly strange! J/K Dale! B)

[Electro12WH 50]

What a diverse group of interests! First your drawing skills are amazing. You haven't had lessons? Really?

That bike is probably the best looking CX500 I've seen. I think they were an under appreciated machine. Maybe the Goldwings overshadowed them. How is they're performance? The one really BIG problem with bike's, especially Japanese bikes is the cost of repair parts. My last bike was a '77 Gold Wing. It just got to where the cost to fix it wasn't worth it anymore. (The carb's just sucked!)

[chevelletown 37]

Well I'll be darn, I've got a CX500 Custom sitting in the barn surrounded by horses. Its one of my favorite classic Hondas. It shares it little corner with a V-Max, a XL125 and a couple XL350s. I put 58,000 miles on my first CX500, sold it, regretted it, then got another (with fewer miles) last summer. Have you ever herd of the Japanese Vintage Motorcycle Club? Its a good club and they put out a real nice publication every 3 months.

Great drawing, how about putting those skills to work on drawing a few Wheel Horses? or at least a few ladies sitting on Wheel Horses B)

[T-Mo-(Moderator) 4,613]

Your drawing skills are very good, excellent even. I would like to see more of your work. I used to dabble with water colors and oils in my younger days. Had a few go to the state show when in high school. I also like to do portraits or people in action, like athletes. I never enjoy the still life stuff. I haven't picked up a brush, nor an art pencil in over 25 years. After high school I mostly have been using another type of drawing pencils, drafting. Even then I hadn't really been on a drafting board in about 15 years since most of our stuff now is on Unigraphics.

Nice bikes, guys, btw. B)

[redfordie 0]

Thanks for all the compliments lads

Ive never really tried drawing like mechanical stuff like tractors before, but i'll give it a go.

As for the bike, i would love to own another CX one day, it was a great bike. Felt very heavy and solid but was still nimble enough to lay into some fun bends. I havent been on a bike since my CX spat me onto the tarmac. I was on my way to work one morning , doing about 60mph when the oil pump failed with style.

The pistons seized and locked the rear end up before i could dump the clutch, resulting in me laying her on the tarmac on one side, slding along the road with my right leg trapped under the exhaust until the right foot peg kicked me off.

I then slid along on my ass sitting upright for about another 50ft overtaking the bike and missing all the oncoming traffic!! I got myself together, no injuries (lucky!) walked back and picked the bike up and rolled it to the grass and sparked up a smoke as shock set in. Jumped back on and started it somehow and limped it back eight miles home. I ended up selling as was because i couldnt take it to the US when i emmigrated here. Loved that bloody thing.

[HorseFixer 2,013]

Im self taught and am still learning and love the curvy female form ( no skinny chicks!)

Thatta boy kinda like um that way myself!

Duke

[formariz 12,045]

So what does everyone else do when not Horsing around?

[captjake 1]

That looks like a lot of fun. Are you making some horse fuel?

Whats the reading on the hydrometer?

Don't blow up the garage :hide:

[KyBlue 655]

Now thats cool!

All the hobbies that everybody else has, is gonna stink compared to that... LOL

Well, I have computers, Model RailRoad, Classic Truck, Love to read, R/C Cars/trucks, hmmm lets see..seems like there is more...LOL

[Confused99 2]

I am into Wetbikes. Here is my current one with my oldest on it. It is an 1989 Wetbike Tomcat. I have bought and sold/parted around 30 in the last couple years.

I am also into standup jetskis. I have a '90 and '96 Yamaha Superjet and a '95 Yamaha FX-1. Here is a picture of me a couple weeks ago on my FX-1

I also snowmobile

[Suburban 550 28]

Seasonal camping At Splash Majic Campround in Northumberland, Pa. (April til end of October)

Pics of my camper and site

Pics of my golf cart after I installed the aluminum wheels over the winter months (my campground transportation)

[Confused99 2]

Cool looking golf cart :scratchead:

[canam1991 2]

arctic cat snowmobiles ( the only way to go), Gas powered rc boats, american flyer S,and ho gauge model trains

[WHC-125 4]

I also do quadding, dirt biking and working on cars and trucks

[wallfish 18,242]

I just found another one if you'll teach me how to build and operate a still but until then I will be out fish'n

[HorseFixer 2,013]

Cas did I ever tell you that I make a good sampler WoW Corn Squeezins! or is that Brandy :scratchead:

[Indy w h 5]

I hunt Indian artifacts in the plowed grounds in the early spring. Started doing

It when I was 8. 30 years latter I'm still out there looking, always amazed that

I find stuff every year in the same fields that I started in.

Indy

[jusjeepn 59]

Here's my other hobby,

And there's still 2 more that are grown and not pictured!

[bustedglass 1]

Nice looking family Pat :scratchead: