Wife approved cockpits?

Update I bought a seat, all the pvc on the planet along with the joints...going ape but still changing things from the original simul8r design.

My question for you folks is how old are you that have the cockpit set up, where is it set up, and what does your wife think?

Basically my wife told me she expected this when we met (21) but now im 30. She says that no successful grown man with kids and a wife has one of these.

So please...prove her wrong.
 
familyvalues
Update I bought a seat, all the pvc on the planet along with the joints...going ape but still changing things from the original simul8r design.

My question for you folks is how old are you that have the cockpit set up, where is it set up, and what does your wife think?

Basically my wife told me she expected this when we met (21) but now im 30. She says that no successful grown man with kids and a wife has one of these.

So please...prove her wrong.
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Tell her at 21, you can't realistically afford these setups without adult money 👍
 
familyvalues
Update I bought a seat, all the pvc on the planet along with the joints...going ape but still changing things from the original simul8r design.

My question for you folks is how old are you that have the cockpit set up, where is it set up, and what does your wife think?

Basically my wife told me she expected this when we met (21) but now im 30. She says that no successful grown man with kids and a wife has one of these.

So please...prove her wrong.
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As far as driving and I am talking about real life normal day to day driving I think you get better with age. When I am on the road the 30yr old thru 60+ year olds just do it better than the 16yr old thru 20 somthing group of drivers.

So as far as you being 30 and sim racing I think this is where we forget how far sims and computers have come.
Just tell your wife how lucky she is to have you at home in your $1,000 sim set-up and not how it would be before the age of fast computers and car sim software. Back then you would have to be down at the track or on the street in a car you put $80,000 in and risk getting killed with no reset button or ctr-alt-delet.
In the end I think as long as you do it in your free time when all the family things you need to do are done it should be cool to sim drive a bit.
Donald trump is a successful grown man. So tell your wife the two hours Donald uses combing his hair you will use instead for your sim racing...LOL
 
VRracer
As far as driving and I am talking about real life normal day to day driving I think you get better with age. When I am on the road the 30yr old thru 60+ year olds just do it better than the 16yr old thru 20 somthing group of drivers.

So as far as you being 30 and sim racing I think this is where we forget how far sims and computers have come.
Just tell your wife how lucky she is to have you at home in your $1,000 sim set-up and not how it would be before the age of fast computers and car sim software. Back then you would have to be down at the track or on the street in a car you put $80,000 in and risk getting killed with no reset button or ctr-alt-delet.
In the end I think as long as you do it in your free time when all the family things you need to do are done it should be cool to sim drive a bit.
Donald trump is a successful grown man. So tell your wife the two hours Donald uses combing his hair you will use instead for your sim racing...LOL
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👍👍👍👍👍 I'm turning 50 this month and go LAN racing with a bunch of guys my age and younger. I have my sim RIGG in the family room so you could say it's a family thing if looked at from our prespective. But I do have half my garage filled with 12 more sim frames so most of the cars get parked in the driveway or the street. I usually play when everyone is asleep or I'm at home alone. And it's true it's better that we are home and within ear shot of the other half then some bar trying to hit on younger women or spending $$$$ on some car that will hardly see track time because I will never afford or have the time to do the kind of racing I do online or with a bunch of guys in a garage. Plus it beats getting speeding tickets on the streets since I get my fix with GT5 already.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=128564
 
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familyvalues
Update I bought a seat, all the pvc on the planet along with the joints...going ape but still changing things from the original simul8r design.

My question for you folks is how old are you that have the cockpit set up, where is it set up, and what does your wife think?

Basically my wife told me she expected this when we met (21) but now im 30. She says that no successful grown man with kids and a wife has one of these.

So please...prove her wrong.
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First think how important it is to you. And if it really is really important, just telling how much it means to you should do the trick. Would you try to deny of her something she would care for equally as much? Enjoying life should be the main concern :) ..if this helps you to achive little of that feeling does she really want to take it away?
 
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kikie
Is that what marriage is all about? Making compromises and negociate? :D
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That's what I've heard...

Currently engaged and saving for a wedding...... future wife is allowing me still to buy the collectors edition since I've been waiting so long for it haha


Also back in college she turned off my ps2 when I had beat the last super license test after probably 10 hours of trying it. She had wanted to watch TV and saw that I had one so she turned it off before I could save it. Let's just say... she still hasn't lived it down :)
 
familyvalues
Update I bought a seat, all the pvc on the planet along with the joints...going ape but still changing things from the original simul8r design.

My question for you folks is how old are you that have the cockpit set up, where is it set up, and what does your wife think?

Basically my wife told me she expected this when we met (21) but now im 30. She says that no successful grown man with kids and a wife has one of these.

So please...prove her wrong.
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I'm in my 40s, got a house and 3 kids and a cockpit in a game room. I would not say i am successful because it's an ongoing process.

My wife let's me play with my video games cause it's my stress reliever and also i told her that's it's better to have video games than other vices. :)

I built myself a folding cockpit that's as sturdy as heck and i can put it away when we need some room. Also i can put it away with the wheel mounted on it, which make it easy to setup for a quick race.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=129736
 
What your wife calls succesful? You won't become a millionaire if you don't play games the same way you won't become a millionaire if you do play games.

As long as your job makes you not unhappy and you can provide for your family, i call that succesful.

and as long as your videogames don't interfer with your family life and men dutys, it shouldn't be a problem.

You can always setup with her a gaming plan (how much hours you play a week and when)

I can not really give you an exemple of my life as i'm not married yet so that can be compared as i don't live neither together with my girlfriend. But she has no problem with it and even enjoy playing games like LBP and heavy rain with me.

(Bill gates is probably the nerdiest millionaire, has wife and kids and gave half of his wealth to charity now, so there's no signifant correlation between succesful and a nerdy hobby)

And as she expects your hobby to be aimed at a 21 year old the same way goes twilight (vampires driving volvos in daylight?!)
 
Here's my cockpit:

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It all stacks up neatly out of the way and then only takes a few minutes to set up, when the wife and kids are all in bed.

And FTR, she got me my DFGT wheel and GT5P for my birthday last year, so I wouldn't have a bad word to say about her!
 
My cockpit isn't so Wife/Girlfriend approved but her cat uses the seat as a bed and she is buying me the CE of GT5. So it can't be that bad. I did make some parts removable with bolts. Also I told her it's safer than doing real motorsport.
 

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