Hey, thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed. You can also subscribe to BikeHacks by email. Thanks for visiting!As much fun as it can be to come up with your own hack solutions, every once in a while it is nice to have a company [...]

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If you commute a lot a good bike rack can be a huge bonus. A backpack or specially designed messenger bag can be great ways to haul stuff around, but it often turns into a sweaty and uncomfortable circumstance. A particularly heavy bag can also cut off circulation to your hands which can [...]

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You know all those election signs and real estate signs you see stuck all over the place? They’re all made of some stuff called coroplast, or corrugated plastic. Coroplast is to corrugated plastic as Kleenex is to tissue. That is, it’s trademarked, but because of its success it has become a genericized trademark. Ok, enough [...]

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Quick pointer to a great bike hack over at BikeCommuters.com. The picture pretty much says it all, but basically you cobble together a spare seatpost, saddle, seapost-mounted rack, and some panniers.

Bingo, you’ve got a hot-swappable cargo module. Keep your bike free of cargo cruft until you need it, then drop in this modular cargo rig.
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Of course the easiest way to make a waterproof bag liner is to put your stuff in a plastic bag. Then put another plastic bag over that one, with the opening facing the opposite way. Then shove the whole thing into your backpack/pannier/whatever. Works great.

But maybe that’s too easy for you. Maybe you’ve got more [...]

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:: Guest post by Handsome Ryan ::
These hardside panniers cost just under $30 to build but they are super rugged and, although weight weenies need not apply, they hold a lot of stuff.

The idea for these ‘bags’ began after purchasing my new bike. It had a rack, but a rack is only as good if [...]

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Well, these panniers aren’t quite entirely made of duct tape, but they sure use a lot! Kent Peterson put up a great page detailing how to make these duct tape panniers. The concept is pretty simple and definitely hackable–there ought to be tons of variations on this same design.
The basic idea is to acquire a couple of [...]

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