This cold pacific northwest Spring is no fun at all, but I am really looking forward to it eventually warming (and drying) up here, and planning on riding my bike a ton this year!  I found a good variety of bike-related projects for you, starting with the fiber-crafty ones... Love this crocheted seat cover, with a free pattern offered on Carina's craftblog:

Teriyakimoto on craftster made this fabulous Owly Handlebar Bag - she gives us the owl chart, and the shape doesn't look too hard to improvise and make one for yourself:



Dutch Blue blog points us to this adorable bike-skirt from Dutch magazine Landleven - the pattern is available as a free pdf, but not in english...



Dutch Blue also put together this inspirational mosaic of bike fashion photos - click to find links to each of the photos on flickr:



And one last bit of crochet awesomeness - Lion Brand blog shares this New York sighting!



Becky Stern made a video how-to for Craft: blog showing us how to Sew a Drawstring Bike Seat Cover:



I've found that Instructables is a gold mine for bicycle projects!  So I've gathered up some of my favorites, but you can head over to their bikes section to find many more... I love these Scraper Bike Wheels, by dan:



Kempton shows us how to make a Glowing button cycling jacket:



Learn how to make Bicycle Panniers from Canvas Military Surplus Map Bags with this instructable by dustinplatter:



Or if you prefer, MountainMommaC shows us how to make Bike Panniers from secondhand purses:



FriendOfHumanity made an instructable for this Bicycle Window Box for the transient gardener:



Use a plastic crate to make a second seat for your bike (for adult riders only, be safe!) - yaeliv shows us how:



Carry_it offers an instructable for this side shelf for a bike:



If you already have experience with electronics-y kinds of projects, use kc6qhp's instructable for this Kilo-Lumen bike headlight to make your own:



If you are hardcore into bike parties and want to take it to a new level of awesome, use dan's instructable for this Bike Party Sound System - Easy Rear Rack Style:



There are lots of tutorials for painting bikes out there - here is one by Dr.Paj on instructables - looks great:



Bongodrummer has an instructable for Leather Mountain Bike Grips - "Healthy hands, healthy bike fun":



One last project, over on Apartment Therapy, Home Hacks shows us how Michael constructed this bike rack using just a few basic Ikea parts, totaling about :



Right here on Threadbanger were a couple of bike posts about a year ago - Carlin pointed us to some DIY cyclist projects for bike week, and also linked to a few more when the Threadheads did an episode on bikes!  Watch it now if you missed it last year!  Happy riding!