First ride onto English roads

After preparing the bikes...pumping up tyres, reconnecting batteries (must be disconnected for the ocean voyage), packing all our very extensive luggage with around 65kg of clothing, extra riding gear, some spare parts, heavy security locking chains, bike weather covers and of course all our personal gear...we now could ride out of the bonded warehouse and basically fill the bikes with petrol. For the ocean journey the fuel tanks must be empty. We bought a fuel container to the warehouse and filled each tank with couple of litres to enable us to head out to the nearest fuel stop.
It was wonderful getting onto the bike saddles and feel the freezing cold English winds in our faces. At least the rain had held off.