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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, good idea!