Saxophones Carrying a tenor on a (motor)bike?

[Detroit Dave]

 

[ghostler]

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Nice. In 2020 for a jazz lab class, I bungeed my 1980's LeBlanc 7133T Vito (Jupiter JTS-689) tenor to the pillion seat of my 2001 Kawasaki ZG1200 Voyager XII. Class was 22 miles away at Eastern New Mexico University, Portales. It was a fun class.

 

[mark_addy]

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Ooohhh, that made me laugh. Enough to stage this (OK, my bike was out, and I only had to spend 10 minutes extricating the bari case from where it rots in the corner...). Wife (whose head appears, Chad like, in photo 2) thinks staging requires more litter and graffitti 🙂 But now I look at it...this is not out of the question, with some reflective tape applied to each end...

 

[PigSquealer]

@mark_addy Jawa 350 ?

 

[Detroit Dave]

I should mention that was my backup Grassi tenor bubble wrapped in a Hiscox case strapped to my TourPak over closed cell doubled padding. Traveled with it from Missouri to Florida and back, about 3,000 miles total. I did have a rain cover for the case, if needed. No problems.

 

[Colin the Bear]

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HMS Harley. Waiting for the Campagne to arrive, to be launched. God bless all who sail in her. 😉

 

[mark_addy]

@mark_addy Jawa 350 ?

Right political regime, but wrong country. Ural 650 - this one retains its normal engine. I am meant to be going to a club rally this weekend coming, and am tentatively seeing if I can make it break down beforehand. With all respect to @Detroit Dave , this may be as much as a 130 mile round trip! I won't be taking a saxophone, but will make the weight up in tools and spares 🙂

 

[ghostler]

Ural 650 - this one retains its normal engine. I am meant to be going to a club rally this weekend coming, and am tentatively seeing if I can make it break down beforehand.

Nice. Here in US, the latest offering has their 800 cc boxer engine. One overall needs to maintain at least a 65 mph speed in these rural 2 lane road parts, so more cc's help. A motorcycle forum that I used to be active in no longer on-line had a Ural forum within it. I thought it interesting all the neat things these riders did in US, spoke of the strengths and weaknesses, etc.

One spoke of a cross country trek taking secondary roads through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona. On US 60-84 passed through Fort Sumner, 60 miles west of where I live, the town of Billy The Kid's grave. Then before crossing into Arizona on US 60 is Pie Town, NM, an interesting village with an interesting history. Think he and his wife's destination was California.

Even thought of getting myself a Ural with side car. Of course with a side car, it could carry any sax plus other support equipment. Since I am now in my 70's, will have to pass on getting a Ural.

 

[PigSquealer]

Right political regime, but wrong country. Ural 650 - this one retains its normal engine. I am meant to be going to a club rally this weekend coming, and am tentatively seeing if I can make it break down beforehand. With all respect to @Detroit Dave , this may be as much as a 130 mile round trip! I won't be taking a saxophone, but will make the weight up in tools and spares 🙂

I’ve been following the brand for 28 years. They’ve made a lot of improvements. The 650cc engine was replaced by a 750cc in 2002. It’s been a dependable workhorse. 2014 EFI was added along with brembo disc brakes x 3. The production facilities relocated in mid 2022.
There’s a small amount that show up on offer of auctions.

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This outfit will carry a Bari, tenor, alto and a passenger.

 

[mark_addy]

I’ve been following the brand for 28 years. They’ve made a lot of improvements. The 650cc engine was replaced by a 750cc in 2002. It’s been a dependable workhorse. 2014 EFI was added along with brembo disc brakes x 3. The production facilities relocated in mid 2022.
There’s a small amount that show up on offer of auctions.

Gear Up

Browse and bid online for the chance to own a Ural Gear Up at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online.

bringatrailer.com

This outfit will carry a Bari, tenor, alto and a passenger.

My (RH) chair is on my diesel bike at the mo, but needs to go back on the 650 so I can work on the former, over winter. Then I won't be tempted to tie the bari on as in the photo I posted somewhere above. Running out of dry, light evenings now, and no garage here.

 

[jonf]

my diesel bike

Sounds interesting. What is it?

 

[ghostler]

Running out of dry, light evenings now, and no garage here.

Over here, you'd be considered a genuine "shade tree mechanic". 😉

 

[mark_addy]

Sounds interesting. What is it?

A 3-cyl Daihatsu Charade diesel engine coupled to a Ural 650 everything else (I used the bike flywheel, gearbox etc). I copied a German bloke, who helped me out a bit with this and that by email. Cylinder heads are fragile - but I like it well enough to perhaps spend real money getting a head welded, skimmed, new seats and all that. Maybe.

 

[ghostler]

A 3-cyl Daihatsu Charade diesel engine coupled to a Ural 650 everything else (I used the bike flywheel, gearbox etc). I copied a German bloke, who helped me out a bit with this and that by email. Cylinder heads are fragile - but I like it well enough to perhaps spend real money getting a head welded, skimmed, new seats and all that. Maybe.

Your description sounds like a fascinating custom motorcycle project, adapting a car engine to a motorcycle chassis. I had to look up the Charade because of its brief marketing in US.

Daihatsu Charade - Wikipedia

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The ultimate would be a resulting photo of it with your favourite sax(es) riding as passenger. 😉

 

[mark_addy]

I think I posted this once before, but here we go. At our engine museum, just before it broke down again...

343K views · 5.8K reactions | Marks diesel motor cycle! Mark converted it himself! | Anson Engine Museum

Marks diesel motor cycle! Mark converted it himself!

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ETA - I bought the donor car when my wife was pregnant with our first child, which in retrospect showed a good deal of optimism about how much free time I was about to have. She's now 21...

 

[ghostler]

Very nice custom motorcycle fabrication and very well done! I was able to watch the first 30 seconds until FB stopped my viewing with a must log in window. (I am not a member).

 

[PigSquealer]

Sounds interesting. What is it?

A different smelling Bari with low D issues.

 

[mark_addy]

I am meant to be going to a club rally this weekend coming, and am tentatively seeing if I can make it break down beforehand. With all respect to @Detroit Dave , this may be as much as a 130 mile round trip! I won't be taking a saxophone, but will make the weight up in tools and spares 🙂

Sorry to quote myself - but a chance conversation at the (middle of nowhere in Yorkshire dales) bike rally about Clint Eastwood which included a guy I know only as 'Jez' - I've met him there and only there, on and off, for maybe 20 years - led to the film 'Bird', which revealed J to be a sax and bass player, who nailed his convictions to the mast with great rapidity regarding tritone substitutions and his preference for Link HR mouthpieces. This is shameful, but I even called his bluff as we staggered home rather pissed from the pub (think pich black cobbled village, amazing night sky, 20 people live there amongst 30 holiday homes) to the tents by scat singing 'all the things you are', and he named-that-tune faultlessly. That was one of the wierdest social moments I can recall 🙂 Jez rides a 60s (?) Dnepr (Kyiv) sidevalve outfit. If you're from Leeds, you need to contact me and persuade him (I can find him on FB) to join your band and take up playing again.

 

[Jeanette]

@mark_addy it wouldn't be jezz Watson by any chance? https://cafesaxophone.com/members/jez-watson.4746/

Though I believe he rode a Royal Enfield at one time.

Jx

 

[mark_addy]

@mark_addy it wouldn't be jezz Watson by any chance? https://cafesaxophone.com/members/jez-watson.4746/

Though I believe he rode a Royal Enfield at one time.

Jx

Well, flipping heck 🙂