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Old 01-19-11, 10:12 AM
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Winter Tailbox Project (or Fun With Coroplast)

Hello, just thought I'd post my progress thus far on building my coroplast tail box for my ActionBent Fusion. I found that Home Depot had some plastic drywall corner bead that had holes just the diameter of 1/8" pop rivets, so that is how I am holding the whole thing together. Additionally, I have a Topeak rack on the back and found the Fixer 6 adapter for their basket. I bought two of them and screwed them to the bottom, so the whole thing slides on an off the rack easily using the Quick Track system.

There looks to be plenty of room for tools along with clothes so I should be ready once Spring rolls around and I start commuting again. I found that I could fit two tubes, my multi-tool, tire levers, a bunch of patches, and a wad of disposable gloves in one of the many old baby wipes containers we had lying around the house. And there is still room in the container for some other ride essentials. Figure I'll finish it up with time to spray paint it before any real commuting happens. I found a shade of the Krylon Fusion that almost perfectly matches the bike color.

More pictures can be found at https://www.musaland.com/gallery2/v/T...11-01-Tialbox/

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Nice project, looks like it holds plenty.

The link didn't work, but here's a non broken link.
https://www.musaland.com/gallery2/v/T...11-01-Tialbox/
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Thanks, I copied this from a different post and didn't notice the truncated link. I fixed the original as well.
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