Bassoons don't fit on pannier racks

[KnottedYet]

Well, we tried...

but the bassoon just doesn't fit on my pannier rack.

I'm sensing a trailer in my future. Just can't trust my aluminum frame to handle an Xtracycle. (aluminum is SOFT. took a big gouge out of it today where my own V-brake arms contacted the downtube.)

Or maybe I'll trade my aluminum Kona Dew for a second steel Kona Smoke. (SKnot has the first one)

What to do, what to do...

[LBTC]

he bassoon just doesn't fit on my pannier rack.

What to do, what to do...

Take up the clarinet?

H&B
~T~

[KnottedYet]

Funnily enough, SKnot's first instrument was the clarinet!

[dex]

Bassoon backpack/gig bag/soft case? Like this --> http://www.altieribags.com/ww_bassoon.html

Then again, that's probably just as pricey as a xtracycle.

(I played the bassoon and carried a gig bag that I could wear like a backpack.)

[Trek420]

Why not? You can carry a surfboard on a bike

http://www.rodndtube.com/surf/info/s...oardRack.shtml

[KnottedYet]

Funnily enough, SKnot's clarinet case is a Gig Bag!!!!

Wheeeeee! Isn't coincidence *fun*?!?!

(c'mon, y'all are supposed to be talking me into going into huge debt to get myself a steel bike Xtracycle)

[LBTC]

OH! Is that what we're playing?

Go, Knot, Go! Buy the steel xtracycle! You know you want to!

H&B
~T~

[dex]

Well, you *do* have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Recycled, you'd probably get a decent trade-in value for your Dew... (There's no way I could encourage you not to obtain another Smoke. I loved that bike when I looked at it.)

[KnottedYet]

It really is a VERY comfy bike. I have yearning for a Smoke of my own now that SKnot has the first one. He really likes it, and is so much more enthusiastic about biking. I was messing around with the Smoke and he asked me why... I said cuz it was such a nice bike.

He gallantly offered to give the Smoke to me and take the Dew for himself.

What a guy... (he did say it would bother him a little if we had matching bikes. I'd modify mine PDQ so they wouldn't match.)

[uforgot]

HA! Sorry, but I can't feel sorry for you about the bassoon. Try being a percussionist sometime. I majored in music in college and when we toured, I would look longingly at those flute players who closed up their tiny tiny cases, while the other drummers and I would load up a van of crap, that had to be taken apart rolled, and packed. Marimbas, vibes, a couple of Timpani. Try carrying one of those.

Know how each section of a band/orchestra has it's own personality? I have to admit, the bassoonists were always the fun, intellectual ones. Something about a double reed, I guess.

Fortunately, I gave up band directing for teaching math, so now I just have to carry papers and books, but I keep watching your posts thinking, hmmmm, one of those xtracycles would be fun. I say go for it, but only if you aren't going to feel any guilt about spending the money.

[dex]

...the bassoonists were always the fun, intellectual ones.

Heh. That's very diplomatic. I remember it as weird and nerdy.

[tattiefritter]

Take up the clarinet?

H&B
~T~

Ha Ha, I was assigned the bassoon as an instrument when I was 13 but I hated having to carry the thing when walking back and forward to school. It was only two miles each way but the case was heavy. I was offered the clarinet two years later and jumped at the chance!

[bmccasland]

But if you want to stay with double reeds, don't forget oboes. On the otherhand, a bassoon isn't as big as a contrabass clarinet.

OK, I was a band geek - played flute and piccolo, but really wanted to play the vibes or chimes. I was told "girls don't play percussion". On the otherhand, I remember once stuffing my piccolo in my pockets to keep it from being stolen while our band marched through a hostile crowd (the opposing school, and they had just beat us soundly in the football game).

So, carrying a bassoon on a bike - you need better equipment! Buy the steel xtracycle!!! This season's must have!!!

[KnottedYet]

Boy, to this day among SKnot's friends you can pick out the instruments. Trumpet players always seem to be the loud and hyper ones, French Horns the groovy but intense ones, etc.

I played small instruments that packed nicely into cases that fit in my backpack, but for marching season I played drums. Didn't have a kit of my own, so all I had to do was drag a pair of sticks around with me. Nice and light!

[mimitabby]

My son plays french horn and will not bike commute with his horn. Even though it's in a protective case, he's afraid something will happen to it.
Knowing the price of a bassoon, i was surprised to hear that you were planning on putting it on a bike. But aren't we more fragile than these instruments?
I'm in a quandry here.

So is your son taking the Dew back??