Speaking of bags. The Panniers really are fantastic. All the stuff stays dry and you can take heaps of stuff to change in to. Take layers off and put layers on as the day changes and the maps stay dry . Bloody fantastic for trips away. Except I hit a bollard with the right hand side one

as I jumped up on to a curve to get under a veranda of a business in Auckland city so I could put on more cloths and read a map in the dry. They do stick out a bit. Lucky it wasn’t a car it hit. Could have dropped the bike if I wasn’t so embarrassed about the big thump it made.

People were already looking to see why the bike was on the foot path. What, don’t people ride on the footpath in Auckland?

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