For those of you who strap a milk crate to your ride...

This would be you, larryboy

You should give one of these a try.
http://www.containerstore.com/browse/Product.jhtml?CATID=71236&PRODID=60192

Don't pay any attention to the stupid colors or the little wheels in the ad, that's just to show you what you *can* get. I used to have a plain white one mounted to the rear of my '85 KLR600 and it worked great.

Sometimes you just want a flatbed.

-T

thanks,tim. i might have to check those out they're close to free. i've got the milk crate on the bike right now. i'm trying it sideways this trip with a sleeping bag for a backrest.

If you find one made from metal, sign me up. I used to have one that was wire mesh (real antique). The thing was indestructable and not TOO heavy. but it got lost a long time ago.

But milk crates are completely free and come with the satisfaction of civil defiance.

Cabela's makes some nifty stuff geared toward ATVs if you want to stay legal and get farther from free.

Are you making fun of $3 milk crates? Well, are you??

I'm not making fun of milk crates, only the barbaric trade of their flesh for currency. I was fortunate enough to liberate a forest green crate among the red and orange from the alley behind Krogger and give it a taste of freedom. I only wish I could have saved them all. I commuted/toured for a couple years on a $1100 KLR with this milk crate and one of those screw lid 5 gal buckets in the crate for stuff I didn't want wet. It proved to be an indestructable, reliable companion. I have since sold myself into corporate slavery and I am currently indentured to a 1150GS.

Wow. That looks very practical!

now thats my style of luggage! i like it

Now I know what I will do with that milk crate I keep triping over in the garage. Great idea!

Milk crates, whole, chopped and/or diced...are cool.
Whatever works....

Do you have "Hostess" cake where you live?

If so talk to your local driver. They use a wire mesh tray in their trucks and

who knows, one might fall out the back door......

I meant metal AND folding, like the original link. I have a few of the old metal milkcrates, but I really want the expandable metal style.

I'm looking for a metal type cage basket, and closet thing I can find is this. http://www.amazon.com/Prima-Milk-Cr...=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B003JO07C0

I've been riding with a milk crate on back of LC4, with original fender bar, and now will put a regular moose top rack on back, but wanted a better looking metal basket. Anyone have another product to share? Thx, DM

I had one complete with wheels and telescoping handle. Picked it up at staples or office max.

Now they seem to only have plastic ones.

Always thought have a flat bed that can assembly into a trunk would be kinda slick.

sorta looking at this one http://www.amazon.com/Prima-Milk-Crate-Metal/dp/B003JO07C0%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJNANDJHZZXLJRMXA%26tag%3Djvm03-20%20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB003JO07C0
something else neat, is this, which goes around an "ugly" milk crate....unsure how it'd hold up against the sun/rain, day in and out.
http://www.amazon.com/CRatePak-for-Milk-Crate-Orange/dp/B003TWF1WI

Good God! A milk crate on a bike, WTF. Some things just aren't right and that's one of them.

Ther was a guy probably in his 60s that rode a DR 650 around town, he always wore a styrofoam bicycle helmet and had a milk crate fixed to the back of his bike for his little dog to ride in.

I'm think'n it was kinda cool that his jack russel would ride with him.

Surely you jest....Should have came as standard equipment.

Some things are not right...vstromtom, like my wife loosing her job 3 yrs ago just after we built a new house. Milk crate was free and it toted several hundred $'s worth of food from the grocery store. Sometimes you do what you gotta do. Now I can go with something different, so I'm asking around. So stop in again for another swing at me, anytime.
For the other with the DR...at least the blue matches the bike!
I've decide on a motech rack http://www.twistedthrottle.com/trade/productview/228/89/
and quite possibly, since I'm redoing my '02 LC4 in orange (orig. red) I may just keep the ole plastic crate and put this around it...
http://www.amazon.com/CRatePak-for-Milk-Crate-Orange/dp/B003TWF1WI

had a old metal milk graite bunged on /5 late 80's. would drop my tool belt in at the end of the day and go home. One day on the way to work i kept hearing ping.......ping...........ping......... finally saw a spark, crate still had one bunge hooked and was bouncing off the pavement every so offen:eek1

Went back to look for tools, somebody had already grabbed most of them except the nail i picked up in tire.