Sure is. Guy asks for help using his bicycle to move his bass around. Many replies including yours basically tell him not to do it. Sounds discouraging to me.
to the op. You're probably better off asking a cycling forum for suggestions.
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Double Bass Thinking about getting this bike trailer for my bass...
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Sure is. Guy asks for help using his bicycle to move his bass around. Many replies including yours basically tell him not to do it. Sounds discouraging to me.
to the op. You're probably better off asking a cycling forum for suggestions.
I was thinking of chain-stay as the height you need your hitch. Axle hitch is the same height, and a more elegant design. You just want it all to be in that low plane. The seat-tube hitch is too high, and will make it unstable. And you want all the mass of the bass as low as possible.
Normally a bass on your back hangs too low: it wants to be where your back wheel is. I tried it with straps that raise the bass, but that ik s indeed like having a very heavy sail on your back.
my solution was to use a small foldable bike.
A seat tube hitch is no problem and often more stable, but not very sensible in the way it is used for this particular cart. If the connecting rod drips just behind the back wheel it is no problem to swing your leg over the sadle.
I'm not discouraging bicycle use. I like bicycles. If the OP lives in an area with smooth roads, little or no car traffic, bike lanes, and the politest, most aware drivers in the world, it could work. Personally, I like my bass way too much to subject it to that sort of jeopardy.
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Your children are a LOT more durable than a double bass. Hit a four inch bump and they just bounce and laugh; same bump could break off the bass' neck.
I support your efforts and have personally used a bicycle trailer many many times for far more than my bass, and for the last 25 years ALWAYS spend far more $$$ on my bikes than my cars or basses, but.... here on the unfit geezerville musician forum might not be your best bet for anything exercise related.....
This has nothing to do with fitness or lack thereof. This "unfit geezer" has been humping upright bass on the subway (up 3 flights/45 steps at my stop for starters) since '79 and I still do it 3-5 times a week. My ONLY issue with the bike trailer is the inevitable damage to the bass.
"Dude" would rather go mountain biking than work on another busted up bass.....
I've never worked on a bass busted up on a bike. 'Only those protected by a case, inside a fancy car, and in giant fiberglass hardshell cases tucked inside airplanes and Navy ships...and then there are UPS and Fedex....
I've never worked on a bass busted up on a bike. 'Only those protected by a case, inside a fancy car, and in giant fiberglass hardshell cases tucked inside airplanes and Navy ships...and then there are UPS and Fedex....
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I was not in favour of the Burley trailer for DB but I just stumbled onto Invalid Link Removed kit in an article about Matt Roberts, a bassist I played with in a previous life. He used the kit to [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] in Toronto...
Of course not. Too heavy for the trailer.
Kids are light enough and more robust ...
Now THAT'S funny!!!!
You may soon be renamed SingleMIDI.
And then I have to play a two or three string bass instead of my 5-string.
But seriously the more weight on the trailer, the more dangerous to bike. I assume that our basses are significantly lighter than our wives.
BTW, I have a bike trailer home-made by a guy for me. It's like an open box (but light construction with a large mesh of metal on the bottom and the sides. The body completely fits inside but I used a soft rope on top close to the heel from side to side to raise the neck over the shaft. (The shaft is mounted underneath the saddle of the bike.)
I can use rubber straps to fix the upper body and also some for the lower body which sits completely in the box.
Sorry, no pics, the trailer is not in a good condition, I hardly use it at all now (more often when studying years ago), and some more effort is needed to get it out of the full garage.
I like Matt's commitment, but that looks like a neck break waiting to happen, unless the body is supported in some way that's not obvious from the photos.
