How to Make Skateboard Holder Straps on Your Bag

If you commute to work or school on a skateboard, it pays off having a set of straps to attach the board to your commuter bag or backpack. Use these when boarding trains, buses or when you get to your building and need to walk a few floors of stairs. Because you most likely want quick and easy access to the board, keep the straps simple, and make them so they pack away quickly. Velcro, or other styles of hook and loop fabric are available in stretchy form, making them the ideal strap material for this project.

Things You'll Need

  • Stretch velcro strapping
  • Cutting tool
  • Lighter
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Instructions

    • 1

      Set out your backpack and your skateboard. Hold the skateboard up against the bag, with the wheels facing away from the bag. Look for external straps on the bag where another strap is able to thread into.

    • 2

      Measure the distance through the bag straps and the trucks on the skateboard. Trucks are the suspension rods the wheels are mounted to and they make logical places to wrap straps around the board to secure it to the bag.

    • 3

      Cut two lengths of the hook-and-loop or Velcro fabric the distance through the bag straps and and around the skateboard.

    • 4

      Hold a lighter flame under the cut ends of the cut straps to melt the nylon fibers and prevent them from fraying.

    • 5

      Wrap the Velcro straps through the bag straps and then around the skateboard trucks, making sure they are under the trucks to take advantage of gravity as well as the secure qualities of the straps. When ready to ride, simply pull the straps apart and out of the bag. Stuff them into a pocket and head out to ride.