Cooler Bike Cooler

Step 7 The final holding strap

So you've now got a cooler that's held at the bottom and at one corner. We now want to put on one more piece of support.

After trying a bunch of solutions, I've finally decided that it's useful to have a bike rack in place on your bike. Then you can simply attach a bolt to the far corner of your cooler and tie that to your bike rack. It's possible to do it without, but I wouldn't recommend it. Then again, unless you're me, if you're planning on having a cooler on your bike then you probably already have a bike rack.

So you know the routine by now. Drill through the cooler; put in a bolt. In this example I used an S-hook on the bike rack, some lightweight chain I had lying around, and a bit of old brass toilet seat hardware to provide something for it to attach to. No, this is not the classiest solution.

Nor is it the best; I think putting in some kind of turnbuckle would be much nicer and let you adjust tension and the like. Then again, I've used this for a few months now and it seems in pretty good shape.