OT: What do you collect?

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by JLQ

Beach cruisers

That's not a collection; it's a rental fleet!

[SPOKE]

Me too....seems like I purchase a new one a few times a year.

Originally Posted by jmoore

I don't "collect" anything but if I am into something, I usually have several of whatever it is. Prob the closest thing to a collection of something I have is knives.

I've got a bunch from my father and grandfather that just sit in a box I take out and mess with every once in a while. And I buy a new knife every few months because I get bored of the ones I have. Strangely enough, pretty much everything I buy is a 2.75" - 3.5" blade folding knife. So I have prob 2 or 3 dozen knives that are essentially the same thing

[JLQ]

Originally Posted by NHAero

Any Schwinn Typhoons with 2 speed Bendix?

No Typhoons, always have my eyes peeled for one in Coppertone. I do have a Heavy Duti and my wife rides a 72 Breeze. One neat kind of rare one I have is this Specialized Shark Cruiser. Not too many of these on the road.

[pjm]

Lately it’s been Casio G-Shock watches. They’re not real expensive and there’s a seemingly endless variety.

[Pegoready]

Surfboards... I have about 6 of them. Oddly, when you're not surfing a whole lot the good surfboards are hard to use well and require upkeep (ding repairs, careful transport, perfect wax jobs that can melt in a hot car), so guess what... the Costco Wavestorm $100 foam board gets used the most.

It's like having a Super Record Speedvagen but using a beach cruiser most of the time.

I need to get rid of these things but like extra bikes, I love owning them and looking at them. Sad!

[fbhidy]

I've apparently started collecting them in the last few years, I've two wooden kayaks, a cedar strip canoe, and a plywood dingy:

1. Pygmy Queen Charlotte (in need of restoration, bad parts removed, ready for rebuild)
   
2. CLC Chesapeake 18 - my current touring kayak, it's a big boat, but I'm a large lad needing lots of volume in a kayak if I'm actually going to paddle it for more than one day at a time.
   
3. 14'+ cedar strip 'racing' canoe - latest purchase, more as a cruiser, also needs refinishing, but I'm going to keep paddling it for right now. Very smooth and fast, not really racing fast, but enough to be fun. Can be paddled single or double bladed.
   
4. 40+ year old sailing dingy/pram - this was 'my' first wooden boat, and it's been in my family for quite some time. Also in need of some restoration, but can be sailed/rowed even motored, in it's current state.

[rkhatibi]

Originally Posted by tuscanyswe

I dont know jack about vinyl but i have a few friends that do. They say stockholm is kinda of a mecca for collectors any truth to this? There are more than a few vinyl shops here so i wouldent be surprised. Just where i live i have likely close to 10 shops in within 4 blocks or so. They seem to do well, i was always bit surprised by that but i guess its just that im ignorant in this field.

I'm not that sort of collector.

My wife did most of the valuable(ish?) collecting when she worked at a record store in the 90s. Most of it came to her and she put things she wanted off to the side. We're definitely collectors of music we like rather than around value or rarity. Nowadays I buy modern mostly from smaller band we like.

[PeregrineA1]

Aside from 70-80’s steel bikes from California builders....knives, fishing tackle, bird books, antique decoys, and air cooled cars.


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[Bruce K]

That Baja Bug is AWESOME !!!

The 914-6 ain’t chopped liver either...

BK

[parallelfish]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

I'd say what I collect but it would cause all sorts of thread drifts..so I won't

I suspect we may share a common predilection.

[oldpotatoe]

Deep down I want to sell most of the photo gear and just do iPhone + drone. It would be freeing in a way.

HA...went thru the Leica, Nikon, Minolta, Canon phase...now I don't even know where my camera is..Canon something or other...

I suspect we may share a common predilection.

Fun tho..son just got a really nice one and I already have one..Thunderer..all I'm gonna say.

[benb]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

HA...went thru the Leica, Nikon, Minolta, Canon phase...now I don't even know where my camera is..Canon something or other...


Fun tho..son just got a really nice one and I already have one..Thunderer..all I'm gonna say.

I think it's all good until you get more than one Leica.

Then you definitely have a problem

My friend's ex-wife had a closet full of Leicas that her dad had bought her. That marriage didn't work out.

[Gsinill]

Originally Posted by PeregrineA1

Aside from 70-80’s steel bikes from California builders....knives, fishing tackle, bird books, antique decoys, and air cooled cars.


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And I thought I am the only one with a 80 gallon air compressor in a hobby shop.
Like the 914 too.

[SoCalSteve]

Ex wives, collected a few over the years...

[kingpin75s]

Originally Posted by PeregrineA1

Aside from 70-80’s steel bikes from California builders....knives, fishing tackle, bird books, antique decoys, and air cooled cars.


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Yeah. Really dig the 914-6. Have not driven one of those since Autocross racing in Phoenix back in the very early 90s. Fun car.