Milk Bottle Saddle Bag!

Tired of paying bucket loads for saddlebags? With just 4 recycled gallon milk bottles, a roll of duct tape, and some Velcro you can have your very own water-proof saddlebags.

Everything needed to build this Milk Bottle Saddle Bag is relatively cheap and common.

Building Materials:
    4 recycled one gallon milk bottles.
    1 roll of Duct Tape.
    1ft 8 inches of Velcro with adhesive on one side.
     Paint/decorations of your choosing.

Tools:
    Exacto knife
    Sharpie

Step 1 Building the Saddle Bag

1. The first thing to do is cut the base sections off of two of the milk bottles at the point where the bases start to curve inwards and is noted by the black line in photo two below.

2. After cut all four milk bottles at the point just below where the bottom of the handle ends and is noted by the black line in photo three below.

Note. Before starting part 2 of this step two of these milk bottles should already have had their bases cut off, so the part that comes off after the cut is a top and middle section (photo 3). The two milk bottles that have not had their bases cut off now form a top and a middle + base section (photo 3 but the base would still be attached to the middle section).


At this point you should have 2 base sections, 2 middle sections, 2 middle + base sections, and 4 top sections.

Comments

[arothschild]

Fun project! I'm thinking of making one for as birthday present for a friend.

[cshaw8]

This is a really neat idea, and for the money, it's even more inspiring.