Is it me, or are bike racks and baskets removing hotter as well as hotter? The latest e.g. is the made-to-order Bent Basket by San Francisco engineer Faris Elmasu. The plywood, nylon and aluminum building a whole sits over a front wheel where you can gawk on its lovely curves as you float.

In unsentimental conditions, a Bent Basket looks to be top-notch. You might not be means to toss in small equipment and float away, but the open design with those stretchy straps is more versatile than possibly a high basket or the narrow shelve. Strapping the MacBook Pro straight onto it when it is mounted on the bike with spare tough tires and no cessation might not be the most appropriate thought, yet, notwithstanding a design showing this indeterminate practice on a product site.

The limit bucket is listed as the “12-pack of beer” as well as it is written for a wheel-size of a 700c highway bike, which pretty most equates to carrying Pabst Blue Ribbon on the fixed-gear bike. If you have the some-more practical bicycle, there are reduction fancy-looking cargo-platforms available, for undoubtedly less money.

Talking of price, you’ll need to get in touch with Elmasu to work something out, as any “basket” is hand-built. So beautifully elementary is a pattern, yet, that the discerning outing to your internal kitchenware mart (for a tray) followed by the stop during a hardware store (everything else) should supply you to have your own, something I’m now planning to do. If you do make a single, post images to the Gadget Lab Flickr Group, or only mail them in.

Bent Basket product page [Bent Basket around Design Boom]