After completing my eBike Build, I realized that I needed a bike box to carry items back from the store, farmer’s market, and oh – the brew pub!

I have always liked cars referred to as Woodies (autos that have wood on the sides), and knowing that I’ll never own one, I decided to make my bike box resemble a woody.

One of my favorite woodies is the Morris Minor Traveller, also known as the Morris Minor Woody.

Here is a picture of one that I took when donating a used bike. The man who refurbishes the bikes and then gives them away, restored this Morris Minor Woody in his garage – it’s beautiful!

First step was to come up with a design. I took a bit of artistic license and came up with this layout.

I decided to make the box out of pallet wood. It’s free and it’s recycled – two things I like. Here are the two side pieces. I glued and pinned the wood together using toothpicks. It works really well.

In this picture, I have the basic box made and am gluing it all together. I set it up with a level to ensure everything was square.

In the original design, I had a center wood post on each box side. After looking at the box, I decided that it did not resemble the back end of the Morris Minor Woody. Back to the drawing board. I made a cardboard arch to resemble the arch above the car tire. I really liked this concept and went with it.

With the wheel arch cut and glued in place, I made a template for the side panels. I used a recycled piece of thin oak veneer that was already stained. It looked pretty nice.

Here is the final version. I decided to paint one side of the panels blue to match the bike. I added tabs to make the sides reversible – wood or blue. Additionally, I bought a blue Morris Minor Woody metal pin and added it to the back of the box.

Adding the arch was the game changer. Now the box really captures the image that I wanted.

Here is the eBike with box attached and ready to go to the brew pub, I mean shopping.