Nice panniers mech.

Are you still using the originals you made?
We have three Surlys in our household. Two LHT's and a Big Dummy. I'd say the Big Dummy has more of a cult following than the LHT. When I got my LHT it was a plain bike with XT hubs and a RD plus a killer Sugino XD600 crankset. It's still pretty much the same these days except the price went up by $200 and they switched out the crankset. Still a wise buy but not like it was in 2008.