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Didn't get to sleep 'til 2am last night. Spent yesterday fitting the mudguards, arranging packing stuff and generally wrenching (including swapping the bars over on my girlfriend's bike to some more comfortable ones).
For those who care, the bike weighs about 12kg unladen, and luggage is roughly 9-10kg of clothes, toiletries, emergency tools, lock, sleeping bag, rollmat and OTB shoes, and 3kg of tent (fatty). Other half is carrying the trangia and food bits.
The Wald basket is affixed using just the upper struts to the light mounts on the Nitto rack, and will carry my satchel with electricals, valuables and bits needing easy access, rollmat slips nicely underneath. Scobleflap is Schwalbe SV13 innertube reinforced with sections of cable tie and assembled with superglue. Because professional.
Bike handles surprisingly well, even piling the weight on!