Step 1 of the pizza bag creation has been completed. I took Camel's idea and purchased some Relfectix insulation ($25 for a 2' x 25' roll) and some aluminum duct tape ($15 for the roll). With this amount of material, I should be able to make multiple pizza bags (in case my first effort doesn't go as well as planned) and a few other insulating bags, namely one to fit my Arkel Bug for carrying home other hot food items if I ever need to. I should have plenty left over for other projects making this $40 investment a much better deal than the off-the-shelf pizza bag.

The plan is to make the bag large enough to fit two pizzas but with velcro straps on the sides to take up the slack for when I'm only carrying one. I'm still not decided on the exact construction but I'm thinking of making a sleeve that slips over the box and is then inserted into the bag. The bag will have a flap that folds over and closes with velcro. Inside of the bag, I'll glue a board with a threaded stud sticking out of it to secure it to my rack with a wing nut. Ideally, this whole deal will fold up and fit into my Bug or at least compress down small enough (possibly utilizing the side velcro straps) to not look too strange while riding into work. From the shouts and honks I get every day, drivers notice me enough already