Finally! Technology is working for the benefit of my sanity

And not before time!!
Every year at about this time, panic sets in as I try to get my Tech on the bike sorted out, something always has to fail!
It's pure bloody mindedness and devilment by the God of Tech (Whoever that may be?) and Lord of the Blueteeth, in that, when my Satnav behaves the Phone doesn't, when the Autocom is in fine communicating mode the bluetooth packs up.

This always results in me fiddling all year trying to;
a) make sense of the insensible, and;
b) make my Tech work even less better than it did at the start.

This Year though..........
I seem to have won the Tech battle and finally everything is working like what it should be. I have been up to Autocom in Warwick and they have fixed my Autocom so that it don't crackle at me and cut off my phone, I now have 2 phones that connect via the Autocom and 1 that connects via the Bluetooth on my tom-tom rider (albeit in a noisy and hard to hear way, but good for tom-tom I understand).
I even got a MP3 player thingy that works fine and cuts out when I get incoming calls etc, although I have only tried it once and find it very annoying, I prefer to listen to the engine - lest it fall out - and listen for the sound of pursuing Police car sirens.

So this year looks to be a good one on the Tech front; but does beg the question, what is going to go wrong to make up for this good-fortune, Hmm...........

The First (off the cuff) Round Britain Rally meeting 2009! (Sort of)

A huge crowd of us RBRers got together at the Ace Cafe on the North Circular, London, for an informal, off the cuff, on the hoof, opportunistic, get together for a nice chat over a nice (expensive) cup of Coffee and ‘Burger.

All 4 (Paul, Steve, Graham and me) of us met at about Midday last Sunday and indulged in a orgy of catching up on news of what we had been up to over the past few months and our plans for the rest of the year with regards to our motorcycling exploits.

Needless to say our main thread of conversation revolved around the ‘Credit Crunch’ and how difficult it might be to get as much of the RBR and associated Camping soirees, Other Rallies and holidays etc as well as just keeping the bikes on the road due to expense. (Torture and Bankers crept into the conversations on more than one occasion!)

 

We looked around the Trikes that had been brought to the cafe as part of the NABD day

 

And someone had even brought his own Banker along with him! (I noticed the Banker had lost some weight?! May have been down to the torture we had proposed earlier?)

Note to self…..Must get a bigger bike, must get a bigger bike, must get a bigger bike…….

The Weather was kind to us as well, we got to watch real bikers doing wheelies and revving engines to the limits, this we decided was how you can tell that your bike is in tip-top mechanical condition! (Well it was ‘till you wrecked the engine, over-revving it)

The RBR Pirate, and  a few of  his crew of evil men!!!!

  We departed late afternoon into the traffic feeling that little bit happier and closer to starting the RBR, and that feeling, Ladies and Gentlemen, is worth it’s weight in Gold for serious long distance bikers!

Technorati Tags: RBRers,Ace Cafe