After some debate in another thread, I now have pannier mounting sorted and a pair of panniers fitted. I went for Givi TRK46N 46 litre panniers. One thing I missed on the web when ordering them (could not find any locally in stock to look at) is that these are around 5kg each when empty. They are plenty big enough and I am hoping that the weight when full will be around the 12-14kg mark. These were £168 each from Ghostbikes who keep them in stock. My local J&S Accessories told me that they could not get anywhere near this price. They did do me a favour though. The pannier mounting brackets seem to be £90+ a pair and come with a variety of side arms to suit specific models of motorcycle. I was confused as to which one to get. J&S in Nottingham sold me an unused pair from their in store demonstrator system for £40 the pair. These have a surface mounting bracket which is a bit unsightly and which I may remove once the panniers have had a trial run fully loaded.
Some evidence:
Rear view with both panniers in place. Central brake light is visible - just - up to a reasonable angle of view.
Rear three quarter view
Both brackets mounted on rear rack:
Close up of o/s bracket showing P-Clips used as mountings
These are the P-Clips I used - available from Amazon and Stainless Steel. All are fastened with M6x16 button head screws and self locking nuts.
The panniers fit very closely to the frame at the "lower" end of the pannier - over these lugs. This prevented me from using P-Clips. The lugs are fitted to the frame using M6 countersunk screws. The sleeves that these screw into are tapped, but not all the way through. I ran an M6 tap all the way through and used M6x25 screws to pass through the bracket at this point into a P-Clip fixed on by a self locking nut.
One corner is not fixed down yet and will require some fabrication. I will see if this is needed and have a plan involving a short length of stainless bar and some P-Clips.
