How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
Hey guys!
I was wondering if there are many cycle-tourers out there who carry a guitar or another musical instrument on your bicycle.
I carry a full size guitar with this home-made system:
http://www.cyclingelmundo.com/carry-guitar-bicycle-touring/
If you carry an instrument, I would like to know how you carry it on your bike and if you are happy with it.
Thanks!
Antonio
I was wondering if there are many cycle-tourers out there who carry a guitar or another musical instrument on your bicycle.
I carry a full size guitar with this home-made system:
http://www.cyclingelmundo.com/carry-guitar-bicycle-touring/
If you carry an instrument, I would like to know how you carry it on your bike and if you are happy with it.
Thanks!
Antonio
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Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
As much as I love playing guitar I've always left it at home when traveling let alone cycling. But I've often been able to borrow one at campsites....Im not planning on trips longer than a week or two so the withdrawal symptoms have been manageable. If I was away for a long time on my own I'd be tempted to take a ukelele!
Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
I carry a concert uke, low strung, and leave the guitars at home. Forget George Formby, this is how to play a uke http://youtu.be/MC230wdYl1c bags of fun in the right hands.
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Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
When I was in high school, I carried a cello a few times. I had shoulder straps to carry it on my back. It was a school cello. I wouldn't have carried my own that way.
Now, I use a trailer, but I don't tour with it. I just use the bike to get to go places where I will play the cello.
And then there's
http://www.cellojoe.com/p/videos_22.html
and
http://bicyclemusicfestival.com/about_bmf/
Now, I use a trailer, but I don't tour with it. I just use the bike to get to go places where I will play the cello.
And then there's
http://www.cellojoe.com/p/videos_22.html
and
http://bicyclemusicfestival.com/about_bmf/
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Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
A couple of times I've seen a cyclist in Glasgow riding one-handed and holding his guitar, without a case, in the other. Presumably he didn't believe in hand signals. I've even see a skateboarder whizzing down a hill with a guitar on his back -- it was in a soft case but he must have been very sure of his technique. .
I regularly cycle with my violin over my shoulder, but usually only for short distances. Over 5 miles I prefer to put it in a pannier with extra foam - the top sticks out, of course, but an extra bungie secures it to the carrier.
I regularly cycle with my violin over my shoulder, but usually only for short distances. Over 5 miles I prefer to put it in a pannier with extra foam - the top sticks out, of course, but an extra bungie secures it to the carrier.
Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
I guess for short trips is not really worth it. But for a long one, I really like carrying mine
Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
I had my first proper crash on a bike in 1959 while I was carrying a tennis racket in a clamp on my fork. I don't know to this day what happened, but I ended up with severe road rash and a wrecked bike. It put me off sport for life, except for cycling of course BTW I've tried to play like Jimi Hendrix ever since, but I'm sure my apparent lack of talent stems from that incident
Power to the pedals
Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
Dunno if it's from the bike or simply crabbed age, but my fingers are too stiff to play now. Nice idea, though. Never tried carrying one in/on anything but a car.
Have we got time for another cuppa?
Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
AntonioCM wrote:Hey guys!
I was wondering if there are many cycle-tourers out there who carry a guitar or another musical instrument on your bicycle.
I carry a full size guitar with this home-made system:
http://www.cyclingelmundo.com/carry-guitar-bicycle-touring/
If you carry an instrument, I would like to know how you carry it on your bike and if you are happy with it.
Thanks!
Antonio
On my current trip I took the opportunity to learn a new stringed instrument and, partly due to its convenient size, carry a mandolin. It's in a well padded gig bag that seems to absorb shocks well enough and then that goes inside an Ortlieb dry bag attached with two elasticated straps across the rear pannier rack. Works well and I dig mandolin as much as guitar now )
Re: How to carry a guitar on your bicycle
Last year met this pair at Wilderhope YHA - LEJOGing with guitars slung over their backs
http://www.teamtroubadour.com/
http://www.teamtroubadour.com/