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Double Bass Bicycle trailer + bass = OK!

#21
Also, that thing isn't likely to tip over!

Matt Ides said:
I am a daily bike commuter, so no car for me. Here are the photos of just the trailer and the trailer with bass. I can also fit my GB Shuttle 3.0 8T with case on the trailer as well. It is working out great.

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#22
robobass said:
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I was just in Copenhagen and this (and variations on the theme) is a common site there. I saw more than one of these things loaded with a bass actually. This seems like a much safer solution than a trailer. Where to get one?
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I have long wanted to use one of these Christiana bikes for my bass, but I'm not sure how I'd fit my bass in the bucket. I think the bass would have to be on its side, because the lower bout is wider than the largest bucket that Christiana (or any other bike company i know of) makes.

I don't love the idea of projecting the neck forward, but it would be directly in my face, I think, if I angled it back.

Does anyone have some idea how this is done?
 
#27
powerbass said:
Here are a few bike trailers. Pedal People is a human powered business in my home town (Northampton, MA). They haul trash etc with bike trailers even in the winter
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Excellent! When you look at the real costs of driving your car around town, you don't have to be a radical environmentalist to concede the advantages of pedal power. If real businesses are implementing it, then there must be something more to it than green propaganda. Aside from the pure economics, you get other benefits, like staying fit, avoiding traffic jams and police speed traps, not worrying about when your meter expires, simply being free! My wife now commutes about 2.7 miles to work by bike. She is a hotshot lawyer, so the costs are no issue, and we do have a nice car, but she prefers to bike, even in the rain. With my kiddie trailer I can shop till I drop and still drag everything home by bike. Why people still use cars for short city trips is a mystery to me!
 
#28
I have always commuted by bike and enjoy all the benefits you mention. Convincing others to adopt this form of transportation is difficult. My hometown has an amazing network of rail trails and bike lanes but there is still only a small number of cyclists who use them relative to the total population. Even folks I know that are within walking distance of downtown will drive their car a few blocks and park. I assume this will change as the cost of gas increases.


robobass said:
Excellent! When you look at the real costs of driving your car around town, you don't have to be a radical environmentalist to concede the advantages of pedal power. If real businesses are implementing it, then there must be something more to it than green propaganda. Aside from the pure economics, you get other benefits, like staying fit, avoiding traffic jams and police speed traps, not worrying about when your meter expires, simply being free! My wife now commutes about 2.7 miles to work by bike. She is a hotshot lawyer, so the costs are no issue, and we do have a nice car, but she prefers to bike, even in the rain. With my kiddie trailer I can shop till I drop and still drag everything home by bike. Why people still use cars for short city trips is a mystery to me!
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#29
powerbass said:
I have always commuted by bike and enjoy all the benefits you mention. Convincing others to adopt this form of transportation is difficult. My hometown has an amazing network of rail trails and bike lanes but there is still only a small number of cyclists who use them relative to the total population. Even folks I know that are within walking distance of downtown will drive their car a few blocks and park. I assume this will change as the cost of gas increases.
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Convincing others is absolutely difficult. Here in Germany we are currently paying about $8.30 per gallon, but the popularity of SUV's and 250hp BMW's still seems on the rise. Fuel price alone is just not enough of a motivator. It's a whole western culture paradigm. People are programmed to buy a new car on credit, and pay out a huge share of their monthly income to make the payments. Then they complain about how hard it is to get by. Well, I'm straying wide from the topic, but the point is that bikes are the way to go!
 
#30
One more note:
When I lived in "Dumbo", Brooklyn, NY, I was able to get to a downtown Manhattan customer by bike for morning meetings in about 20 minutes. At that hour the trains were so backed up that I literally passed at least three of them while crossing the Manhattan Bridge. I'm sure auto traffic wasn't much better, and I didn't have to deal with parking. From a simple commerce and productivity point of view, bikes win outright in many urban situations!
 
#31
I'm on my first visit to the States (Chicago and Upper Michigan), and honestly, I'm amazed by the distances people drive here. It's less than half a mile from the hotel we're staying to the venue of our first concert here in the UP, and the concert producer (after we told her we'd rather walk) still showed up to drive us there. Now, I do feel very happy for the hospitality people show us here, but I still wonder... "A bit of a walk" seems to mean anything from 200 meters up, and be a synonym for "have to drive there"... Bikes are non-existent, even if biking could solve a lot of problems.
 
#32
My same experience living Boston - I could get to work from Cambridge clear across Boston in half the time of the subway at busy times. And it was so much more pleasant to ride a bike even in rain compared to being crushed in an overcrowded train


robobass said:
One more note:
When I lived in "Dumbo", Brooklyn, NY, I was able to get to a downtown Manhattan customer by bike for morning meetings in about 20 minutes. At that hour the trains were so backed up that I literally passed at least three of them while crossing the Manhattan Bridge. I'm sure auto traffic wasn't much better, and I didn't have to deal with parking. From a simple commerce and productivity point of view, bikes win outright in many urban situations!
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#33
powerbass said:
My same experience living Boston - I could get to work from Cambridge clear across Boston in half the time of the subway at busy times. And it was so much more pleasant to ride a bike even in rain compared to being crushed in an overcrowded train
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Another strong point. Trying to squeeze onto the F Train at Jay Street in Brooklyn and make a place for yourself among the throng of angry commuters from the outer boroughs who have already been standing there for an hour, enduring delays and a homeless person screaming at the top of his lungs about Armageddon? Biking across the bridge and maybe getting a little cold and wet sounds pretty good:hyper:
 
#34
Kamuilija said:
I'm on my first visit to the States (Chicago and Upper Michigan), and honestly, I'm amazed by the distances people drive here. It's less than half a mile from the hotel we're staying to the venue of our first concert here in the UP, and the concert producer (after we told her we'd rather walk) still showed up to drive us there. Now, I do feel very happy for the hospitality people show us here, but I still wonder... "A bit of a walk" seems to mean anything from 200 meters up, and be a synonym for "have to drive there"... Bikes are non-existent, even if biking could solve a lot of problems.
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Exactly. It's a bit of an embarrassment, sometimes.
 

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