Bassoons don't fit on pannier racks

[KnottedYet]

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

[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.

[wannaduacentury]

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

So is mine, I'm working on a mandolin now Jenn

[mimitabby]

I have a picture of a buddy hauling his standup bass on his bike. I have to unearth it!

[farrellcollie]

I was a bassoon player throughout high school and college (started out as a music major - ended up a lawyer). I was in the marching band too - piccolo and baritone player. I started playing bassoon to avoid all the competition in the flute section.

[KnottedYet]

Yeah, man! Those flute sections are VICIOUS!!!!!

[susiej]

After an opera performance in Magdeburg, Germany last summer, we saw at least two of the orchestra members bicycling off with their instruments (one strapped to his back, and I'm unmusical enought to not remember what it was). It was very, very cool to watch them.

[Bron]

Yes, I've seen cellists here in Munich riding bikes with the cellos strapped onto their backs. It beats manhandling it on and off the tram.
I'm just happy that my flute fits inside my messenger bag.

Bron-the-non-vicious-flautist

[mary9761]

I was a bassoon player throughout high school and college (started out as a music major - ended up a lawyer). I was in the marching band too - piccolo and baritone player. I started playing bassoon to avoid all the competition in the flute section.

I played bassoon from 7th grade through graduation in my Junior year. That was for my concert band and as you know most marching bands don't march bassoons, I had all of one afternoon to learn how to play melophone, memorize a song and my marching routine for that night's practice.. Brutal. going back and forth for a while from brass to double reed when you're not used to it, YIKES my lips buzzed like crazy. I wanted to play flute too but I couldn't get all 4 tones they needed.