Fridge Freezer Bike Basket Hack

It's cold outside where I live.  Not traditional Boston cold from what I hear, I have only lived here for about a year now, more Climate Change kind of cold.  I hear that temperatures around freezing here are pretty mild when compared to years gone by.  It is winter however and reader Matthew submitted a chilly hack.  Enjoy.

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I have had a bike rack in the shed for a while so all I needed was a basket to go with it. The inspiration for making a basket came from similar storage hacks on your site.

The basket was constructed using two old fridge freezer drawers and connecting them together. I only had to remove one wire section from the deeper drawer using a hacksaw and using a bit of force they were joined together to create a basket.

An old seat post clamp was used to clamp the basket to the bike rack. Additionally a couple of nuts of bolts and a few cable ties were used to complete the fixings. The finishing touches were rear reflectors and lights on the rear of the basket.

Comments

[Leo Horishny]

Excellent hack. I find that baskets are an underappreciated carrying device, compared to panniers.
And the thing that strikes me is even if you are an aero freak, what's more aero than an open metal mesh in comparison to the floppy cordura sacks used for saddlebags? If you have small items, you can use a smallish bag, but for the majority of the time I use my panniers, a basket would more than suffice.