If you look on ebay you will see panniers come up for the Triumph sprint every now and then. Amazingly quite a few of them seem to be sold incomplete, sometimes just the panniers without the hardware that you need to actually fix them to the bike. The list price quoted to me by a Triumph dealer for new panniers was £600 and even then they told me they were ‘unavailable’. when a set appeared on ebay that were the right match for my bike and complete I didn’t hesitate to pay the buy it now price of £360. A couple of days later they arrived in two huge boxes lovingly packed by their seller. It all seemed to be there – in fact there were a lot of pieces left over after I had fitted them. Like most work on this bike, you seem to need to half dismantle the maching to do anything.

Fitting the brackets to the bike took about 5 hours in total and building the panniers was easy in comparison. By the same post that these arrived so did that rather nice Triumph luggage rack which is now also fitted. Now I feel ready (apart from some Ortleib luggage) for the tour of Mittel Europe I have been promising myself for next summer.