Saxophones Carrying a tenor on a (motor)bike?

[jonf]

It might stick a wee touch past the handle bar mirrors. At least here in US depending on what location, most would probably be able to do it without being cited, as long as it was securely bungeed to the package rack.

Perfectly lawful here in the UK, as long as the load is properly secured. But in practice - I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread - to be safe, particularly when filtering through lines of traffice, the item being carried needs to be no wider than the handlebars. That way the 'cat's whiskers' principle applies. If the bars will go through, the rest of the bike, with sax, will go through too. The bars on my bike are 96cm wide, and a tenor case is typically around 80cm, so that leaves a little leeway.

 

[ghostler]

Perfectly lawful here in the UK, as long as the load is properly secured. But in practice - I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread - to be safe, particularly when filtering through lines of traffice, the item being carried needs to be no wider than the handlebars. That way the 'cat's whiskers' principle applies. If the bars will go through, the rest of the bike, with sax, will go through too. The bars on my bike are 96cm wide, and a tenor case is typically around 80cm, so that leaves a little leeway.

I remember back in the 1970's whilst in college, I rode a 1971 Honda CB100 motorcycle 4 - 5 miles to the university from where I lived. Its engine was a touch under 100 cc's and with 5 manual speeds and a true clutch had enough zip to easily keep up with the city traffic. It's top speed wide open was about 60 mph.

I borrowed a friend's moped, top speed around 32 mph. Used it a couple times, it was frightening to use it on the busy Honolulu traffic as cars went easily 10 mph over that even though I traveled to the edge of the road as was law and custom. I was just as well off with a bicycle.

Then, I bought by mail order a set of small universal motorcycle ABS hard bags. They had enough room I could carry my clarinet and were lockable, good for keeping my books and shopping dry when it rained in Honolulu. I also mounted a universal package rack on the back, bungee my alto sax to it, didn't have a tenor sax then.

 

[Dr G]

It might stick a wee touch past the handle bar mirrors. At least here in US depending on what location, most would probably be able to do it without being cited, as long as it was securely bungeed to the package rack.

Spring 2020 I had my tenor sax case and all bungeed on the pillion seat of my touring motorcycle. Took an Eastern New Mexico University jazz combo class for fun (and grade - aced it).

A decade ago I saw a westbound motorcycle towing a canoe behind it on a special trailer for it. This was in Texas on Highway US-84 near the town of Muleshoe. The canoe was several times longer than the motorcycle.

Some things are just stupid. Crosswinds on a canoe could drag a motorcycle bass-ackwards across the road. Please don’t tell me that there is no wind in Texas - or New Mexico. I used to ride on the windward side of the lane when it was really windy so I could maintain position somewhere in my lane if I got hit by a serious gust. I commuted year ‘round between Santa Fe and Los Alamos on my BMW R1150RS for several years - as long as there was no snow or grit on the highway.