[Closed] Bass players all ride hardtails

I ride HT play Fender.

Santa Cruz Chameleon single speed and a fine pair of American Jazz basses here! What does that make me? No, don't answer that!

Bungie- too cool for school too the max +1

i love bass and ride a HT!

i am also quite drunt on european lager

Fender = tough, simple, look better with the crap kicked out of them, easily repairable, easily modified, pick up and play.
That's your basic hardtail innit?
Jag/Jazzmaster - Nu Skool/nichemonger/hardcore.
Strat - Do it all hardtail.
Tele - Fully rigid, steel frame.

Gibson = Overpriced, fancy finishes, badly made, easier to use, doesn't put up a fight, fussy about set up, never live up to the hype.
Yep, the full sussers of the guitar world. 😀

Les Paul Juniors are definitely owned by Orange 5 fans.

Yeti's & Jones bikes are bought by people who play PRS's. 🙂

Gibson guitars and hardtail bikes for me. I don't really like Fenders, they just feel cheap. Hardly ever ride what's classed as "proper" XC, just trail centres, downhill and jumping with the occasional bit of long mynd xc.

Come to think of it I like my Gibson-style guitars for the same reason I like my bike - comfortable and easy to play/ride, dependable and versatile 🙂

Trail centres, downhill & jumping?

Have you considered a Jackson, Ibanez or ESP? 🙂

Yeti 575 & Gibson Explorer here....... both for thrashing on 😉

Bass Player here - 456 is my bike.

drummer and full sus rider, I've dabbled in bass and hardtails

5 string banjo and an orange crush 😀

What a load of tosh. How can you make comparisons between the bikes you ride and the instruments you play.

I mainly ride a Litespeed road bike & play the tuba.

Matching the bass to the bike... 8)

Fender Japan '51 Precision re-issue = Inbred SS
Fender Japan '60s Jazz re-issue = 456
Squier CV '60s Jazz = Kaffenback
Squier VM '70s Jazz = Pompino

Fender Strat and a DB Alpine here, would hate to choose between them...

I can feel an STW band coming on! But that would involve starting a discussion on preferred musical tastes. Now that would be interesting!
Singlespeeders = Folk
Hardtailers = Thrash metal
Fullsussers = The latest musical fad that everyone else is listening to?

Ouch!

fender acoustic and i ride a kona hahahahahanna hardtail. but is it xc or all mountain? hmmm, i must confess i ride both up AND down the hills. but i also play bass and have a ukulele - how you like that for skewing your results? 😛

'bass players ride hardtails'

WTF..

Congrats on the crappesr thread of 2011..

How about 'paedophiles wear anoracks'...?

Have you considered a Jackson, Ibanez or ESP?

Tried them out and they were all a bit crap 😛 Sticking to Gibsons/Gibson copies.

Loddrik, chill out bud it's only for a bit of fun

let's start another thread with pic's of our guitars

bassist and a single speeder here. 🙂

maybe all those strings/ gears are too complicated for my simple mind!!

rickenbacker 4003 owner and I ride lots of different bikes from big boingy things and hardtails to clown wheel single speeds. Maybe I just like classic niche 😉

Lemmy's choice of weapon. Do you play Motorhead?

loddrick, I thought it was just women you had a problem with, not guitarists.

Just for you:

Happy New Year.

Another tuba player here (spacecadet - maybe we could form a tuba playing sub forum?)

Oh yes - hardtail for me (and I sometimes wear an anorak 😈 )

Fender Jazz and Musicman Stingray and I'm a roadie!!! 😈

active fretless 5string Dean bass. I generally ride ht

Rusty Spanner, with much regret, I am unable to open the link on my phone...

maverick species 1

kona caldera and marin rift zone

Rickenbacker 4003 and ride turner flux.

Bass Collection 4 string, Ibanez 5 string. Blue Pig, MMMbop, Inbred.

Not sure where to start...

KingDoubleBass Tiger King, KingDoubleBass Slap King, Steinberger NS5, Warmoth 5 string, Hohner 5 string, 76 jazz, Warwick thumb 4 b/o, Takamine acoustic 4, Hondo fretless etc etc.

And don't get me started on amps...

Oh and a singlespeed !

Mudmonster - I'm jealous on both fronts!

On the bass front, I mostly play my old beaten up (but beautifully light) Aria Pro 2 IGB-50 (depsite my hubby having a P and a J in the house) and curently ride an Intense Spider 2...

I play guitar more than bass though - Fender Tele Ash body '62 reissue and a very nice Martin - oh and I'm also contemplating buying a ss cx bike?!

Hmm... I wonder if it's telling that I get to ride many different bikes and therefore have about 25 guitars of all types to balance it up. 🙂

At the moment, I'm riding carbon fibre full sussers and playing PRS McCartys - sounds about right. Maybe next month I'll get back to hardtails and Strats.

Nice parallel!

I play the most niche bass and rig you're likely to ever come across yet ride a Boardman HT.

mmm..do I have the wrong bike, or the wrong instrument?
(do it all hardtail and strat)

At the moment, I'm riding carbon fibre full sussers and playing PRS McCartys

Note to self - steal next few issues of mag, they obviously have too much money as it is 🙂

Most of my guitars are pretty cheap ones. Ironically, the brace of McCartys came about after writing a bike test review where I said that a Trek Remedy was really good value for £1700 - and I realised that I'd never spent anywhere near that money on 'my' hobby, which is guitar playing. So I went impulse shopping and then spent the next couple of years beating the credit card bill with a stick. My 2011 resolution is 'no more guitars!'

I always said I'd never buy a really nice guitar 'till I could play properly, which is why I still play a Squire.

If only I'd applied the same principle to bikes & riding I'd have saved a good few quid over the years 🙂

I've got a Fender strat and Gibson Epifone copy. No full suss bikes though, they are definitely for those of the more mincing persuasion.

I'm a singer and ride a 29er.... No parallels there at all then...

Coo-ee, look at me! Yes, over here! 😉

battered old Framus dreadnought, Ozark Resonator & Hofner Senator arch top + Orange Subzero but rarely ride due to poor health and a mountain of other inconvenient excuses (writing/recording album, need to do the hoovering, etc, etc)

Rusty Spanner - interesting approach. Kinda cool I guess, though when I bought my Tele I ended up playing it a lot more and therefore getting a lot better... (Just worth considering!)

(At least I don't keep changing bits on it to make it lighter! 😉 )