Returning to old hobbies.

Seeing as I am finally employed again, I will be picking up some old hobbies I use to enjoy. This time it will be r/c planes, again. I use to live in the city, which was a pain to fly nitro planes. 45 minute drive to just enjoy a few hours of flying. Thankfully battery technology got good and cheap enough. To pursue electric planes. Which allowed me to fly in the parks etc. But there is something about fueling up the plane, and the sweet smell of alcohol and nitro methane that the electric planes don't have.

I now live in a semi rural area. And due to the housing bubble popping, we have a housing development that stopped dead in it's tracks. Right after they paved the streets, added the few stop signs, and fire hydrants. So, basically I have paved runways at my convenience.

Thankfully I have most of the stuff, to get right back into flying. Some things will need to be replaced (receiver batteries, fuel etc). But after that, it will be pretty cheap to enjoy the hobby I love, as long as I don't crash . But even IF I do, I  have noticed some screaming deals on nitro planes, on craigslist. Seems everyone is either getting out of the sport, or selling their nitro stuff to fund their electric ones.

Anyone else returning to hobbies they once enjoyed, but took a back seat in recent years?

I always wanted to get into rc planes, just never took that step. I did get a cox airplane for my  14th birthday, I still remember my dad trying it, getting dizzy and the corsair airplane ramming into his crotch, such a good day!

Years ago i used to cycle A TON but injured a knee and totaled my bike then turned 16 and went crazy buying and fixing up cars and eventually motorcycles wich i STILL love to this day. 

R/C electric helicopters are getting dirt cheap as well. They are fun to fly around the house or the office.

My friends keep bugging me to get a bike again...

Great way to end a video

Sweet legwarmers.

If they had those bikes when I was a kid I would never have made it as crazy as I was.
I remmember when we took our old bikes, knocked the legs off a picnic table for a 'ramp' and jumped cars and stuff, a lot of 'strawberries' and nasty bruises. NO ideas or dreams of these BMX styled 'trick' bikes.

I did look at 'mountian cross' out here for awhile, 24/26in bikes on a BMX track for us 'older' types. My 'dream was a 24in base bike, 26in front wheel, actual motocross style bars and long seat, suspention both front and rear, figured 1 fast lap per race, doable......then.

I still ride my high end mountian bike as exercise, a $700 custom job made by a bike shop here in town. And the dirt roads and sand on the roads sometimes make for some interesting 'tricks' just to get to the pavement 3 miles away.

Edited by oldsoldier - 14 January 2013 at 10:57am

Yeah, all we did was 'jump' our bikes.  We had a side street that had a pretty decent grade to it.  We could get our bikes up to around 20mph and hit a ramp we made with plywood and 2x4s.  Wasn't until my brother hit the ramp wrong and basically went face and forearms into the blacktop.  Serious roadrash, lips mashed into his braces.  Looked like Tyson used him as a heavy bag using sandpaper gloves.  This even stopped him from using a ramp he made in our back yard where a cable spool was used.  Many a crank were bent back in those days using that...

FE, how old were you in 1990? Totally rad styling there.