One thing I like to do when I'm lucky enough to have a bit of downtime, is to trawl through websites of various sports that I wouldn't normally participate in - for example Mountain Biking. Whilst the direct subject matter of bikes may be less interesting to me, these guys share exactly the same mentalities. For example the rush of a swift decent, the joy of discovering a new trail, the realities of riding to the limit and forgetting for that moment the job, the mortgage and other lifes grinds.
And also the grim reality that you can put your all into a hobby, only for some arsehole to break into the shed and steal your custom setup with the 'bugger to get hold of specialist parts'.
Bike Radar have done a couple of nice articles on How to Toughen Up Your Shed part 1 and part 2 with great advice at relatively low cost. Certainly low compared to the cost of replacement anyway.
The only problem that we have as mountain boarders is that we don't have a triangle of metal to slip a chain through to secure the board directly to ground or something heavy. I'm not sure how best to overcome this part so any comments to this appreciated! I've gone down the route of storing everything in a shed that is moderately secure, but is also so overgrown, that most people don't realise its even there. Its worked so far, touch wood..... In an ideal world the wife would let me keep the boards where they belong - in the kitchen, but so far, for some reason, this is not an option.
There's plenty more good advice not only on Bike Radar, but plenty of other similar websites, so look beyond the obvious, we're not so different from other sports at all.
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