tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23350130761973042672024-02-19T16:53:35.260+00:00Panamaniac onabikeTrails and Tribulations of a ordinary bloke who tries to do ordinary things and seems invariably to fail in an extraordinary way!?Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-51884110524661085932012-02-29T23:45:00.000+00:002012-02-29T23:45:22.323+00:00Defining Friends. Armchair psychology that works Pt 1I read somewhere that one of the best definition of a true friend is a person with whom you can talk to at any time -despite having not seen them for years- like you only saw them yesterday!
Steve in Germany,
(It took a long time to
get there on this bike.)
I reckon this is about right.
There seems to be a link between people who are genuine friends and it's quite easy to spot, therePanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-91912822534257996032011-11-15T20:35:00.001+00:002011-11-15T20:47:57.734+00:00I wrote this here book for all to see and enjoy.
All I have to do now is read it, to see what I wrote?!
My Round Britain Rally 2011 by 27th March too 15th July Jim Josey | Make Your Own Book
I'm advised that it might have been a good idea to read it before publishing to avoid printing all of the spelling mistakes and putting the wrong script next to the wrong photo! but hey, lets live dangerously..........
Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-39939352445163730752011-03-08T22:16:00.000+00:002011-03-08T22:16:24.132+00:00I knew it!!!!!Just 'cos I wash me bike all my tech starts fighting back, My tracker has give up the ghost and I am now invisible (or rather the bike is) to the world, I feel so insignificant.
I'm doing a bit of fault finding tonight in the vain hope that it'll burst back into life in the morning and I'll be back (or rather the bike will be) visible to thems what know where to look!
I've just ordered a new Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-18012096994210713842011-03-07T23:24:00.001+00:002012-03-01T08:44:19.039+00:00Bike cleaning!? HmmmmI have spent the last 5 months looking at my bike and wondering why it's so dirty?
Surely the dirt would fall off after 2 or 3 months and it should be all sparkly and clean again, I though Gravity would take care of that!
Oh well, just goes to show that science isn't right all of the time?!
So over the last 2 weeks I have had to clean the bike myself, this constitutes 'exercise' in my mind and Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-86958913959724573392010-03-24T22:54:00.001+00:002010-03-24T22:54:32.832+00:00It’s in the genes, you know……I had to study Biology for a year when doing my degree, this was because I had to make up the credits for my Honours, no other reason – at the time. Turns out I developed an unhealthy interest in Genes, mostly due to reading  the likes of Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Blind watchmaker etc, (the bloke knows his stuff & turns what could be terminally boring into terminally beguiling.Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-65369532445329935212010-03-24T21:58:00.001+00:002010-03-24T21:58:09.925+00:00Just a little testI’m trying out this MS Program for blogging Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-71985011506997072862009-03-30T20:19:00.006+01:002009-03-30T20:50:23.310+01:00Finally! Technology is working for the benefit of my sanityAnd 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 Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-6917617136070617422009-03-05T23:48:00.001+00:002009-03-05T23:48:10.758+00:00The 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 andPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-72963459268730930992009-02-27T20:00:00.006+00:002009-02-27T21:25:33.045+00:00Exciting times ahead!!It's SPRING!!! (well, nearly)Time to get some serious biking done. It all starts this week-end for me with a trip down to the Ace Cafe on Sunday to meet fellow Biking enthusiasts Steve & Paul to carry out the ancient old English Spring pagan rite of passing many coins over a winnowed & warped antiquated Melamine alter to the high priestesses of the Gaggia tribe to placate the espresso GodPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-81799680662449679222009-02-11T20:41:00.010+00:002009-02-11T22:39:17.102+00:00Blimey It's cold out there!!I decided that full use of the Bike was required this year 2009, so by way of practice and a desperate need to get out on the bike after 6 weeks of staring at it in the garage, I elected to nip out and join the other member of the Round Britain Rally 'twins', Steve, for a soiree with the Royal British Legion Riders branch and visit a couple of 'Poppy Homes' to meet some of the people we owe so Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-53361057937182094412009-01-04T19:19:00.001+00:002009-01-04T19:21:41.719+00:00Great British Bikers, visit this siteSupport these people, they seem to have good idea worth telling people about.Great British Bikers Launch Video from GB Bikers on Vimeo.Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-89076728843362531572008-12-01T22:29:00.008+00:002008-12-01T23:34:21.401+00:00My trip to the Bike show....On the bike, of course!Steve came up from the deep South and we launched ourselves up to the NEC via Jacks Hill Cafe on the A5 near Towcester (strangely the bike can't seem to get past this without turning into the car-park, and throwing me off into the cafe in the process) We topped up the Cholesterol here and continued on our way.I noticed, after travelling the first 30 miles and my fingers hadPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-87217022543209137902008-11-11T21:23:00.002+00:002008-11-11T21:43:12.611+00:00Pah! - Doctors - what do they know?!I had my routine 6 monthly blood test a couple of weeks ago with some additional blood letting to test for adverse effects relating to some cramps I've been getting in my Calf muscles.All pretty routine stuff 'till I get a summons to appear in front of the Doctor. I assume this is for my routine 6 monthly bollocking relating to excessive feeding frenzies and not nearly excessive enough exercise Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-45740613649320604312008-11-09T20:23:00.002+00:002008-11-09T20:39:34.745+00:00Bl#@dy LEDs, it gets worse!Having spent ages fitting 2 LED's in each mirror housing One in the right housing (the proper Amber ones) has packed up!, this comes to 6 of the 8 LED's I got from Ultraled.com that have give up the ghost, bailed out, gone west, etc.I shall forego any further urges to get my LED's from this source and stick to getting them from Maplins, all of which are still working despite having to put up withPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-39432825268429206242008-11-05T22:21:00.008+00:002008-11-06T09:24:27.464+00:00Bl#@dy LED's!! Why can't they fit themselves?Some where on the internet is a photo of a Honda ST 1300 Pan-European with dinky little Amber LED's fitted inside the wind mirror housing facing back-the-ways.Theory being that people who sit a bit taller in the saddle (or have a Airhawk seat cover - that'll be me) and can no longer see the indicator tell tales on the dash and tend to forget the indicators are on, (and getting all bitter and Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-5058756119609661872008-10-26T20:15:00.006+00:002008-10-26T21:06:43.807+00:00A jolly good week endLast week end some of us intrepid Round Britain Ralliers had a final camping week end for 2008 at 'Conkers' near Burton on Trent!As none of us had any idea what the site was like I elected to take the Caravan to use as a 'club house'(This is an old photo as despite having taken 2 cameras AND a DV camera, I failed to get any photos?!)The thinking behind the camping trip was to allow the RBRers whoPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-13238414160096513642008-10-14T22:56:00.017+01:002008-10-14T23:41:52.302+01:00Brightona, and the failed challenge!Steve and I decided to go to the Brightona Bike meet having seen it on the UK Bike web site.This was a good thing to do, lots of bikes albeit HDs in the main, but there were plenty of them as the day wore on there were not far off the same quantity of bikes at Brightona as there was at the Ace Cafe burn upThere was some strange looking bikes there as well! there were some that were in the processPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-84630453206267867772008-10-11T10:17:00.006+01:002008-10-11T10:43:25.125+01:00Nearly Christmas! (Well, close enough to justify getting more bike kit?!)I feel a desperate need to spend more money on the bike.so I plan to invest in some more bits of plastic to protect the rather rubbish paintwork on the areas of the fairing where the paint has worn off! and some better weather protection - Compared to my Triumph Trophy the weather protection on the Honda is not much cop either!I'm thinking, if I sneak a few bits on the bike at a time, 'Er indoorsPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-48381872873310732842008-10-01T21:15:00.007+01:002008-10-01T21:48:20.068+01:00Don't read this if you're a sensitive biker who likes to treat the road as a race track!How arrogant and ignorant are some of us bikers!I've just seen some footage of some seriously silly ridingWhy do we have to put other peoples lives at risk with our need to go faster than everything around us?If we can't kill innocent people as a result of our stupidity and ruin the lives of their relatives maybe we can kill ourself, and ruin the lives of our relatives and loved ones. (How cleverPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-38611167481167053902008-09-25T21:45:00.003+01:002008-09-25T22:15:50.754+01:00Despite the credit crunch.......I decided to buy some polish stuff for the bike!Highly recommended by a friend I invested my funds in the Macquires polish system to try and clean up the image of my Bike.The paintwork on the Honda pan 1300 is rubbish after only 23000 miles and 18 months it is heavily oxidised and covered in micro-scratches (something that never happened on my Triumph Trophy 1200 despite some serious abuse!)SoPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-78006578298607385602008-09-16T21:54:00.005+01:002008-09-16T22:11:56.282+01:00I like Duffy, (so should you!!)Anyone who remembers the 60's, Northern soul, Dusty Springfield and similar should listen to this artist, AND she's no primadonna like most 'stars'Very refreshing music!Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-49426345935635536042008-09-15T20:25:00.010+01:002008-09-15T21:13:16.778+01:00Back from the "Brighton Burn-up"(You'd have thought someone would have come up with a more apt nomenclature for this 'do' by now?!)However, I digress.Truly the good Gods conspired to produce some decent weather, excellent country and scenery on the trip down and, what a spectacle when we arrived in Brighton!All sorts of Bikes from Mopeds to the (very) obvious 'Boss Hoss'There were Bikes that would never see the day when so muchPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-26849598708874422192008-09-10T22:57:00.001+01:002008-09-10T22:57:55.409+01:00Brighton News and Events in and around the areaPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-47517063619724755742008-09-10T22:32:00.002+01:002008-09-10T22:58:39.113+01:00Isn't it frustrating......... when you cant play with some thing new you've bought yourself!I've yet to go out and parade my nice new riding ensemble I got me for my Birthday! This is due to work commitments and not the weather as I need to get out in the rain to see if the kit is waterproof.I did do a small trip out overnight last week-end and had to drive home in some serious Fog, no joke on the A1 when I was doing no Panamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335013076197304267.post-67006250087219429292008-08-23T20:17:00.009+01:002008-08-23T20:56:28.099+01:00I like getting prezziesIt's my Birthday in a few days, Now I don't normally have Birthdays as this only makes you get older! I have, However, condescended to have a little Birthday this year so that I can have prezzies (I like prezzies!)So far I have one prezzie which I went and got today at a motorcycle cafe and clothing place in Brackley, Northants, called Skins this consisted of a new pair of motorbike trousers fromPanamaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797620954402120436noreply@blogger.com2