Thank you for the wonderful comments, thank you, too, qmsdc15. "The experience from previous models" must be paying off, since this is the first time I managed to avoid monkeying with the brakes, or brake cables. The existing brake cables are in the clear, and did not have to be re-routed around any "sheet metal". And this frame has cantilever brakes, with cables in a "center pull" position.

I had started planning this on paper a couple of months ago (although I knocked it out in one 24 hour period) and on the sheet of paper, I wrote a note to myself, it said: "KISS", which is a little abbreviation for "Keep It Simple, Stupid". I'm glad I didn't over-complicate the design or installation.

I don't know whether to call this a basket, a box, or a fairing. I'll call the rear boxes panniers, but the front box has the simplest aerodynamic feature, a slightly slanted front panel. People in general (non-cyclists) don't even know what the words "fairing" and "panniers" mean. So I call this "Type Eleven".

I already put this bike to good use, I stuffed all my plastic grocery bags in it and took them to the supermarket for recycling.

In all, this set-up required 28 square feet of Coroplast (corrugated plastic), which was recycled/reused, from campaign signs the day after election day, 2008. I will have to hunt for more Coroplast this year, since my supply is dwindling .

I hope the photographs are clear enough for other builders to attempt their own build.