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Originally Posted by mconlonx
Great adaptation. If it was me, I'd bend the thing about 1/3 up from the bottom at 90 deg to form an L profile--1) so that cargo has a support on the bottom, and 2) so that those dangly hook-shaped bungee ends don't end up in your spokes. (Just inherent distrust of bungees after decades of using them... call me a bungee bigot.)
I thought about doing the bend, actually, but my bike is a folder and I take it on Amtrak trains, where I sometimes have to fit it into a narrow utility closet, so I didn't want to do anything to increase the width.

As for the dangling bungees, they're usually secured, but I didn't bother for the photo, since I was just going to take my bag off the rack as soon as I was done taking the picture.
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