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.)
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.)
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.)
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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.
Claudia
2009 Trek 7.6fx
2013 Jamis Satellite
2014 Terry Burlington
Very good! And the others?
(This is college level remember. Where you play because you enjoy your instrument, not because you were forced...)
Trumpets - hotdogs.
tubas - party animals. Think John Belushi, he probably played tuba. (Tubas and percussionists really get along well, Trumpets and percussionists not at all)
Sax - Tried to be cool. Mellow, laid-back. Sometimes it worked, but they were always well liked.
French Horn - definitely intense as knotted said, probably because they have all those notes on one fingering. Tend to study rather than party.
Guess I noticed the brass more than the woodwinds because I spent my entire band career in the back. (Or in the closet where we kept our food when there were a ton of rests). I still remember one day, 8 of us in the percussion closet, talking and eating and suddenly we hear the instruments stop and the director: "WHERE THE HELL ARE THE DRUMMERS!".
Claudia
2009 Trek 7.6fx
2013 Jamis Satellite
2014 Terry Burlington
I played clarinet and then switched to oboe. My parents call that time as "the dark years". I actually hated it and switch over to tenor sax and used to bike it to school strapped across a front basket.
I'd rather be swimming...biking...running...and eating cheesecake...
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2008 Cervelo P2C Tri bike
2011 Trek Madone 5.5/Cobb V-Flow Max
2007 Jamis Coda/Terry Liberator
2011 Trek Mamba 29er
I don't know what you're complaining about, I play String Bass. Try hauling one of those on a bike! (The pic of Gary Karr pulling a bass behind his bike not withstanding).
My viola in it's case is just about bassoon size/shaped. It rides nicely bungied to the under-seat rack on my recumbent. Really solid.
DH has hauled his French horn in a child's Burley trailer. It's less wonderful, though, a horn is about child-sized, but it's not shaped AT ALL like a child. Still, it works with the net-type bungies.
Oh, and the horn players not being the party type? Tell that to my younger daughter.
Come to think of it, cerebral Elder Daughter plays drums now - she started out as an oboe, but in college switched to percussion, seven (yes, seven) oboes in the band was too much competition, and the percussion section needed warm bodies.
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