View Single Post
Old 09-20-06, 08:16 AM
  #5  
Cyclaholic
CRIKEY!!!!!!!
 
Cyclaholic's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: all the way down under
Posts: 4,276

Bikes: several

Mentioned: 37 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1590 Post(s)
Liked 689 Times in 366 Posts
Originally Posted by FlatTop
Nice design and execution. I especially like the simple bracket for the rod end.

In my area, plastic trolleys/shopping carts are discarded more often than steel ones. I'll have to find a scheme to use those, perhaps by riveting or bolting through the sides.
A plastic basket would save you a heap of weight, I was surprised at just how heavy the basket was after stripping it down. You could also save some weight by using aluminum tubing, the steel I used is overkill; way stronger than necessary.
__________________
"Surely one can love his own country without becoming hopelessly lost in an all-consuming flame of narrow-minded nationalism" - Fred Birchmore
Cyclaholic is offline