Finally, after what seems like an age, we have the panniers fitted to the bikes.
The tightly fitted garage, 4 bikes are squeezed in here, you can just see the XJ900 buried at the back.

This month has been a nightmare of organisation, originally I had a great plan where these last 2 weeks would have been a case of relax, throw the bikes on a plane, and then we run away.

But with the delays in getting the panniers made it all crossed over with the final bike servicing, so I seem to have spent the month commuting either to Project VND near Chester on one bike, taking the other to Pitstop near Leigh and combining 30+ mile push bike rides in between.

Pitstop have been their usual accommodating selves, even allowing me do the tyre changes as practice during the services. The amount I "leak" when doing physical tasks amused them no end. They also modded the bikes to have a radiator grill guard.

Finally the panniers were ready, and shipped of to be anodised, at this factory .

But fate was with us, Vern had previously returned to collect the panniers (prior to anodising) to complete the fittings.

We have decided to miss that part of the process and take them as is.

So, 1 bike all set up, including cheesy grin.

Now, finally we can pack all those piles of things we have had lying around the house for weeks :-)