Single Speed Triumph Porteur

I could make a much nicer quality box out of the off-cut bin at work in my lunchbreak. :) In fact, I might just do that tomorrow. Can presumably omit the front rack and just make some struts that mount directly to the box, fork crown and eyelets.

Besides what already has been mentioned about the benefits of a rack, if you could make a slightly wider box that wasn't so deep I bet that would look excellent....(esp if your place of work happens to have walnut cutoffs and you have a dovetailing router :)