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4. I've been looking for an excuse to buy a better pop rivet tool.

Thanks for the positive replies, folks.

I doubt that I will likely have a chance to find out how these boxes hold up to real cold. The coldest I have ridden here is in the mid-teens, which as cold as it got the last two winters.

That's a good looking box, Bek. Much more aero than mine, which is quite literally a box. One thing I forgot to mention, though. One of the criteria for the boxes I chose was that my Bell Metro helmet would fit inside. And it does, although a little tightly, with room to spare. The BikeBins look great, but too narrow for that. I could be wrong just looking at a picture.

Could you post a picture of the Rixen and Kaul hooks? I'm not familiar with that term. Thanks.

When I was putting these together I was sitting in the living room one Saturday morning. Measuring, marking, measuring, erasing, measuring, marking, math, erase, measure, mark, erase, math.....

Wife: "What are you doing?"

CR: "Trying to get this right the first time so I don't have a box with 15 holes in it."

Wife: "You need help."

CR: "No thanks, I can manage."