Apparently a mixture of offdays, bad weather and Internet access is not the best one can experience.
Hoovering around the virtual reality, I came across a forum thread called "Pooratech" (
) in a South-African forum (tell me about it!) -
http://www.wilddog.za.net/forum/inde...&topic=12116.0
So, from there I was inspired to build myself a toolbox for the new toy. I may not be riding, but can do lots of dumb things.
I got myself a PVC pipe from the local hardware store:
2 caps (apparently this is how they are called) and a drawer lock:
One afternoon of cutting, drilling, swearing, scratching my head, and voila:
The masterpiece is 450mm long and 125mm in diameter (that's about 18x4.5 inches for our imperial viewers), which turned out quite big:
If it turns out that these sticking bolts get in the way, I'll swap them with rivets.
The "cool" lock:
The official version for the insulation band is that it's there to improve water tightness, but the cruel truth is that I put it to cover the dodgy cut I made:
Well this is for now. I made it that far.
Now I'm contemplating on the next creation - cheap and simple pannier racks... I hope I won't mess up the nice bike until spring time (my wife hopes!).