Like the title! I want to cultivate some helpful skills but do so gradually, as a hobbyist. Tempted to get into lockpicking, haha.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    Tinkering on bicycles has given me a surprising amount of cross-transferrable skill as to maintenance or building a lot of (simple) mechanical systems and how forces work on them even outside of the bicycle world.

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      3 days ago

      Bike work, especially refurbishing older ones, is really good at building lots of useful skills. Plus, you can ride a bike to get cardio once you finish. I really enjoy exploring random trails and single tracks on an all terrain bike (bigger tires/no suspension), and it helps with developing and testing navigation practices and fits with many of the other outdoors/hiking related suggestions like botany and foraging.