Our friends at Dark Rye, an online magazine from Whole Foods, have come up with a project for turning a wooden crate into a retro bike cargo box. It’s a simple, but useful bike mod. The project comes from Dark Rye’s latest “Future” issue. It’s a great read featuring forward-looking innovators in architecture, urban agriculture, energy production, and transportation.
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20 thoughts on “Cyclist Chic: Turn a Wooden Crate into a Cool Cargo Box”
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Cool idea. I’ve got one on my ’69 Schwinn, it’s not very sturdy, just a produce crate that came from a farmer’s market years ago. But it works well enough for what I need it for. I was maybe 14 when I got the idea for it. My dad cut down the crate a few inches and attached it to a bike rack. It’s served me well. Here’s a photo of the bike: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lungstruck/5587321036/
A milk crate would be a better choice for something like this. It would hold up far better to the elements, is much lighter than a nice wooden box, and it is less likely to be stolen.
This also screams of Hipsterism. Save the wood crate for a window planter.
It’s from a magazine published by Whole Foods. They know their audience.
Yep, even the slides are very Hipster
Two suggestions:
– use “elastic stop nuts” or thread locker (“Loctite”) instead of double nuts
– she really should tie back her long hair before using power tools (photo 5)
My wife did this with a cheap (but nice-looking) wicker basket from Pier One. The basket has a buckle-down lid to keep stuff inside, and cable-tying the wicker to the luggage rack took all of five minutes.
this is so cool.
Maybe put another plate on the inside of the box, to distribute the force from the bolt heads?
I think it looks cooler than it is. I tried it. I found that is seriously unbalances the bike. It also makes it much harder to get on and get off. I went back to a backpack. Too bad. I liked the look of the milk crate and bungie cords.
I put a wooden crate from patatans craft store on my 1982 concorde and
could’nt be happier, very light,get’s a lot of looks and only cost 9.99.
Give it a try.