Local shopping by bike with half a cat carrier-basket

Step 2 Nearly done.

Then placing the basket on top, marked off where the holes would need to be drilled.

To do so, I first used a small drill bit from the outer end of the basket and then a larger bit from the inside. The small hole makes a point of contact for the larger drill bit and when that is used from inside to out, the resulting snag-ends go to the outside where they're not in the way.

For ease of drilling and safety, I placed the cat basket base on a box of paper etc ready for recyling.

Once done, I positioned the bolts and washers etc tightening up with a round headed spanner.

Done!

Photo of the blue basket is the base of the cat basket on a lady's bike. It's bottom is flat and so more ideal than the upturned top.
As you can see from other blue basket photo the woven bag placed within is much higher then the one on my own bike
Having a cross-bar means that the larger bag, when heavily full, is out of the question unless someone else is around to hoike it up / off after / before I've already got my leg over.