Reply With QuoteAll ways liked playing on push bikes. Biggest regret is probably not having better locks.
Mine is Hi-Fi for 50 years and my most regrettable faux pas has been the purchase of a cartridge (the needle bit) on my record player that cost more than a steel Rolex sub. Seemed a good idea at the time but the qualities it offers are greater than the rest of my system would be able to reveal. Silly me getting carried away in the moment. Also needles wear out....
All ways liked playing on push bikes. Biggest regret is probably not having better locks.
Biggest regret is never going back to playing rugby after a fairly terrible knee injury, but it really wouldn't have been a wise choice.
Mine is travel; I'm currently visiting my 102nd country. I regret not visiting the Buddhas of Bamiyan and Palmyra before they were largely destroyed, as well as a few other places of interest that no longer exist.
My biggest hobby has been (and is) collecting hand wind chronometres from the 50s. And my biggest regrets has been when, having in my hands a fabulous scientific-dial Omega 30T2SCRg in my hands, decided that the script was not symmetrical, and let it go.
Later have learned that in the 40's several of these Omegas had non-centered scripts.
Wow! I had to google "how many countries in the world". 195 apparently. Quite an achievement there.Originally Posted by Mr Curta
my biggest regret is not having enough money as these superb motorcycles came on the market to afford one
motorcycles will always trump watches for me
Z1
Jota
gpz900
brough superior
Vincent black shadow [at one time both affordable, well to a degree]
Katana 1100 [had to settle for the 550]
Ducati 916
there's more I've forgotten I am sure
the only other real regret was not going on snow queen, free skiing but I didn't fancy the long bus ride down [what was I thinking].so I have never skied and never will.
My main hobby... mmmm....
Well over the last few years it's been scuba diving.
Biggest regret? Not starting when I was 20! So many places and things to go and see, an extra 25 year would have been nice!
Still time left to do a few more though
I fenced (just for fun really, few competitions) for a number of years before breaking my knee skiing (and a bit after) and I quite miss that. I could have carried on, but it made my knee ache and at the time I was very tied up in diving training.
My wife broke HER knee skiing this year and says she's not skiing again, so I'm worried that may be the end of mine and I've been skiing every year since I was 21! I know I'll regret NOT going if I don't...
M
PS I really SHOULD knuckle down and get my Marcos back on the road again too.
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Dance. Only regret not starting earlier in life.
Hi Ed!
M
Drummer for 17/18 years and my biggest regret is all those times I should have worn ear plugs when I was in my teens.
The biggest mistake is wasting time on regret. Seriously.
Since the mid 80s I've been involved with classic cars. In the late 80s the market rose sharply then cooled off in the 90s. I bought an MGB GT in 1991 and paid a strong price for a very original car which had recently had some bodywork done by a supposedly respected specialist. The car looked good, the photos showing the work looked good, so I bought it. After a short while I realised the car needed more work than it had been treated to, and the work done wasn't brilliant. I ended up redoing the work myself and bare-metal respraying it . I also went through the whole car mechanically and reuilt everything with a view to keeping it long term. The car was show-standard when I finished but I'd lost the love and decided to sell. The market had now fallen significantly, I got a couple of hundred more than I paid but I reckon I'd spent almost two grand sorting it out. Overall I owned it 2 years, spent 12 months with it off the road, spent a huge amount of time on it and lost virtually £2k...........not the best ownership experience!
Buying a brand new JLC and then selling it about a year later is probably my biggest watch related regret / most expensive mistake.
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
That's mine too. Wishing I had done more when younger, and also bad melancholy and self pity.
Not continuing my diving and failing to make my trip to Truk and Bikini..
I like trains, boats and planes and my biggest regret is never getting to fly on Concorde.
Regrets? None, perhaps the biggest mistake was buying a Marcos instead of a TVR many years ago...
I managed, over a decade to blow a hundred grand on a ten grand car with a few different engines, different hand-laid fibreglass bodies, suspension and brake setups. Paid 10k, sold for 13k, the missing 100k just gone...
If I'd bought the Chimaera 500 I wanted, I'd probably still have it.
Watch wise; Breguet bought at half price at £15k... sold for £9500 2 years later. Painful.
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Ok you've got me. I'll add that one.
My favourite hobby used to be having a series of emotionally draining and financially crippling relationships. I got bored of that one.
My current favourite hobby is shooting. My biggest regret is that I stopped doing so when I was grass-high to a kneehopper, only to rediscover my love as a portly grown-up.
Not finding a band to play with for eight years. My old band went its separate ways in 2008 and I have just started playing with another band about a month ago - i really really REALLY enjoy it.
Selling a genuine Marshall Plexi on ebay to buy a set of drum mics and firewire mixing desk then the drummer 'losing' them. We were 16 and didn't know any better.
Spending all of my pocket money on pedals I didn't need and selling them on ebay. Again I was only 16.
Not playing a proper strat really ever until recently - I am in love.
Letting a broken WEM valve amp go to the skip - all it needed (I think!) was a new rectifier - but I was only about 13 at the time.
Ahhh - the naivety of youth.
My hobby is Radio control model boats, I build them from scratch or kit, fit the electronics and sale them, my only regret is most of the members at my club are dying off, at 50 I am one of the youngest, very few newbies are interested.
This is my latest boat 52" Arun class lifeboat needs a lot of work but winter's coming so she could be ready for the spring, we show a large collection of these at model boat shows raising money for the real lifeboats.
The tin of hoops on the bow is for some scale.
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Selling my rust free Alfa 2000GTV for £800 because it needed about £2k of work on the engine and suspension 20 years ago. Must be £20k+ now.
Leaving my Leak valve amps (pre and post) at my parents and finding out a few years later they'd given it to a charity shop - no doubt punishment for all the punk music they had to listen to.
A few mistakes, no regrets.
Very impressive and profits to a good cause too!My hobby is Radio control model boats, I build them from scratch or kit, fit the electronics and sale them, my only regret is most of the members at my club are dying off, at 50 I am one of the youngest, very few newbies are interested.
This is my latest boat 52" Arun class lifeboat needs a lot of work but winter's coming so she could be ready for the spring, we show a large collection of these at model boat shows raising money for the real lifeboats.
The tin of hoops on the bow is for some scale.
I regret turning down all those £1500 Subs I was offered in the past but it's only money in reality.
I wish I had stuck with the guitar instead of my seventeen year hiatus but I just fell out of love with it.
In the end neither really matter a jot.
Cheers,
Neil.
He's actually a lightweight; we have both worked with somebody who is well into the 150s (MS).
My principal travel one was not doing a holiday in 2006 to Aleppo and Damascus that would have involved an overland train journey from Berlin via Vienna, Belgrade and Istanbul.
Mine too! As an early teen the audio/music bug bit very hard along with a strong interest in cars and photography. All 3 are with me to this very day. I dont even want to think about how much has been sunk into audio over the years ...
Mine is starting to snowboard too late in life, I never took it up until I was 25 and always wish I'd started much younger.
I was hoping to go to Japan this year but it looks like a dodgy hip might put me out most of the season this year, but I hope to get there next season.
I've actually done that route overland, although I think we drove from Berlin through east Germany etc ( this was before the wall came down) left the car (2cv acadiane) in Belgrade and then took the train to Istanbul
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
I did the train trip from Zagreb to Istanbul back in the days of Tito. Somewhere south of Belgrade the train collided with a Zastava on a level crossing. I can only hope that the occupants of the car had time to escape as it was totally destroyed. Chaos ensued and the train that left Zagreb twenty-four hours after ours eventually overtook us.
I can live with that, he's a legend who thinks that cycling across Afghanistan is a perfectly normal activity.
One of my favourite train stories is from India, when the station announcer requested passengers not to board the arriving express train as it was yesterday's express train running 24 hours late
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Mine is not learning golf as a child. I miss out on a lot of fun days with mates by being unable to play the game, despite failed attempts at lessons. My 7 year old is into his third year of Saturday lessons - making sure he doesn't miss out too!
I missed the opportunity to buy my Mum's cousin's Caterham Super 7. He was asking six grand for it but offered it to me for five.
I heard on the grapevine few months later that the chap he sold it to got seven for it.
The other hobby, boats. In my middle to late twenties Dad and I (well mostly Dad!) bought a narrowboat that we fitted out together. Unfortunately at that age I was distracted by girls so I failed to concentrate on the more technical aspects of the fit out and now I have taken the boat over I sit on board wondering how the hell some of the systems that Dad put on it work! Of course with Dad now gone, and the boat badly neglected in the last few years of his life I think I am about to embark on a fairly expensive refit!
The other boating regret...... A couple of years after we bought our boat a residential mooring came on the market in the marina where we moor, complete with boat. I didn't go for it at the time for reasons long forgotten but with the advantage of hindsight.......
And of course what am I looking for a quarter of a century later? Yep, you guessed!
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Haha - golf is mine too. A slightly different flavour, I played a lot as a kid and got to a single figure handicap with ease. I then found the pub / women (well, more attempting to find women) and stopped playing regularly.
I know I could have been a very good golfer had I continued. I have now re-joined a club but I'll always know I should have carried on playing in my twenties!
Hey ho
Buying a second watch.
I used to play a well-known tabletop war game and sunk a lot of money into buying kits that were already horrendously overpriced at a time when I earned very little. I only really enjoyed it for the painting of them, and at 17 sold my total collection for £70 to a local wargaming club after my mate in my road moved away and I had no-one left to play with. The problem is, once you'd painted them people didn't want them unless they fit in with their army colour scheme, so it was an all-or-nothing venture to get rid of anything you no longer needed that couldn't be salvaged (only so many recoats can be done before the model is ruined). I reckon probably £500 of kit was in there, but it did let me build a PC I needed for university.
In hindsight, I wish I'd never played because my 'mate' who had more money than me would routinely buy the hard counters to my army knowing I couldn't afford to do anything to stop him.
I also wish I'd never stopped doing archery at 15, but the lure of a weekend job was too much - cost to get back into it today and get back to the level I shot at (just under county level) isn't worth thinking about.
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Not taking my commercial Pilot licence.But at the time it would have been such a financial struggle.
Hindsight and all..........but that's how it was and is.
Big mistake. But pretty much everyone here has done that....
Putting marriage before golf...it won't happen again!
Ha ha - I don't hate golf, but I've never been that interested (I played a little as a teenager, but never since), but I do get irritated when every f***ing car salesman tells me I can put a set of golf club in the boot of every car I have ever looked at.
You could tell me I could put the dismembered body of a prostitute in there for all the interest it would be to me (in fact, at least that would be original!) - I don't play golf, so why the f*** do I want to know I can put golf clubs in there?!?!?!
M.
Gromdall archery doesn't need to be expensive to get back in to. £150-200 buys an entry level new set up or mid level used set up. Yes you can spend thousands but it's your ability that makes the most difference.
For me its not taking playing rugby more seriously, its my first love and always will be. As a kid I was pretty good (county level) I joined a good club and had every chance of progressing, I then found beer and women and then got kicked out of the good club for going on the p1ss to much, so joined a not so good club who's main aim was beer and women with a bit of rugby thrown in.
I have been at that club for 20 years now and at the age of 36 I am rapidly coming to the end of my playing career (no longer in the 1st team squad this year for the first time), I do wonder what might have been...
That said I have had 20 years of great crac, mates, rugby and I met my Mrs there so its not all bad.
Watches.
Selling my 2 x Omega Speedmasters to an Italian dealer, one was a FAP 2998, the other an Omani engraved presentation piece.
Motorsport ( no surprise there)
A few years ago , on the last run of the last event of the season, I had to beat the class record in my Radical to win the overall championship. As I held the record the time it was eminently do-able. At the start line I heard a loud ticking noise from the fuel pump. I recall thinking that the last time it did that, it was running out of petrol....... 1/2 lap later the engine died.
Dooohhhh
NB there is no way to check the fuel level in a Radical
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Being an early adopter for tech that didn't last long: DCC, Laserdisc, Super VHS, DAT, PocketPC to name a few.
Er Hi!Hi Ed!
M
Ed? ... that went over my head?
Hang on. Sorry if it brings up bad memories but this 100k on a Marcos needs its own thread! I want to know what happened.
I *think* he is teasing you about dance and Ed Balls is still in Strictly. Thats what I took from that.
Games Workshop models. All dusty now.
Sorry, thought you were someone else
M
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I agree
Got to have been a Mantis, right?
M
Loved sports cars (before kids came along) and the last one I had was a 2004 NSX. I sold it for 37K when the recession hit. Had I just parked it up in the garage it would be worth 60K+ now.
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