rreffner
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Anyone else travel with their ukulele when riding? I have a Harley Roadglide and a Honda Goldwing. When I leave for overnight or longer trips, my ukulele goes with me.
Anyone else travel with their ukulele when riding? I have a Harley Roadglide and a Honda Goldwing. When I leave for overnight or longer trips, my ukulele goes with me.
I've got a Suzuki C50 and one of my projects is to install a pair of tenor hardshell cases as saddle bags. Pipes are on the right so my uke would ride on the left side. I've got EZ Brackets on my current bags, all I'd have to do is relocate the hardware on one of the bags so that they'd both open from the top.
I think on his DVD "Play Loud Ukulele" Jake is riding a little pink scooter through Waikiki in one of the videos. Priceless!
I ride most days that are above freezing and not stupidly wet.
The reason I got into uke is that I can't fit a cello into my saddlebag. True story. I was looking for something different to play, but the motorcycle size limits became a big factor.
I have a gigbag for my tenors and my fluke has a bag - either one, if not both are likley to be on my back while riding.
You get called Dudely a lot? I get that all the time. It is funny b/c I participate in a motorcycle ministry (BOJCMM) and they all make fun of my uke but when ever we stop and want some music I am the hero
Not to my face at least.
I'm not a big "group ride" kind of guy, so I haven't heard anyone say anything. It's how I get around.
I get more flack in general for riding a Harley than playing the uke.
I love motorcycles, and definitely love being able to head somewhere with just my uke on my back.
Here's a pic of me on my bike
And about a month ago I did a little riding for one of my ukulele videos when I recorded Born to be Wild if you haven't seen that.
Oh, and I'll almost definitely be riding to UWC btw, so maybe I'll see a few other riders/ukers there :cheers: