December

WOW that came fast. Well its official. the trip will not start in Jan 2010. The introduction of sponsors new model bike has to coincide with the start, so we are postponing until April.

The weather issues will be less hassle and maybe sunny throughout.

Doing some work with mountain rescue, twitter @Funds4Rescue or my new twit @road2manchester

No work at the moment, so very broke, not nice so close to Christmas.

An open invitation to join me on your bike goews out to celebrabiker Amanda Bearse Aaron Eckhart Caprice Hulk Hogan ANASTACIA (please please) Adrian Brody Carre Otis Ice Cube Angela Jolie. Oh yes. Al gore Catherine Ball Jay Leno Ann Richards Al Kaline Charle Sheen Jezzer Irons Antonio Banderas Alanis Morisette CHER Jim Carrey Axl Rose Aland band Cindy Margolis Jessica Alba Ben Campbell Alfonso Ribeiro Clint Eastwood John Travolta Bill Goldberg Alton Brown Dan Akroyd Jude LawBill Mueller. Billy Bob Thornton The Hoff Kate Hudson Bill wallace Billy Gibbons Demi Moore Keanu Reeves Billy Joel Bob Geldoff (Sir) Dennis Hopper (a must) King of Jordon Prince William Bob Segar Doobie Bros Kyle Petty BONO Brad Pit Fabio (bit of competition) Laurence Fishbourne Branscombe Richmond (Cool) Bree Turner Gary Condit Leo Dicaprio Brian Bosworth Brock Lesnor Harrison Ford Llam Nealson (I will find you)Bruce The Boss Springsteen. Bruce Willis Heatgher Kozar Malcolm S forbes Bryan Adams Cameron Dias Hugh Laurie Marc Knopller Mary Hart Matt Le Blanc Mel Gibson Michael Schumaker Mickey Rourke Mike Oldfield Naomi Watts Nastassja Kinski Nick Cage Nikki Sixx Orlando Bloom Ozzy Ozbourne Pam Anderson PETER FONDA PINK Russel Crowe Rutger Hauer SAM ELLIOT Sheryl Crowe Slash Sting Ewan and Charlie Tom Cruise Vin Diesel
join me for a mile and add your name to the cause.
anybody know these guys e-mail or twitter accounnts PM me.

Spare us a penny guvnor'

OK This is the big push for PENNY sponsors. get listed and help us make £$€,0000000 for water aid charities.
TARGET $200,000


I penny per visit. thats it. (more if you like), paypal us (ask for details). Nothing an be simpler.



YOU CAN'T BUY ANYTHING FOR A PENNY, BUT ADD THEM TOGETHER>>>>>>>>

I hail this interchange of sentiments, therefore, as an augury that, whatever else may happen, whatever misfortune may befall your country or my own, the peace and friendship which now exists between the two nations will be, as it shall be my desire to make them, perpetual." Abraham Lincoln 01/19/1863 Letters to the people of Manchester.

And as the wheels turned once more, I think of what I left back there, yet the horizon beckons to another town called Manchester, out in the world, somewhere.
Pete Johnson . May 2009

The United States of AM-anchester.
"For Manchester is the place where people do things.... 'Don't talk about what you are going to do, do it.' That is the Manchester habit. And in the past through the manifestation of this quality the word Manchester became a synonym for energy and freedom and the right to do and to think without shackles."From "What the Judge Saw" by Judge Parry, 1912.

"I arrived in a shower, in the wet now set off,Eight days in the place I remained:Seven days, seven nights and a quarter, I vow,By Jove! it incessantly rained.What then? not a day nor an hour was I dull:The Lancashire lads played their part:I found every friend of politeness brim full,And myself in the midst of the arts.May Manchester flourish! and if once againBy chance I should ere be brought hither,I hope that from weeping the clouds may refrain,And grant me a peep at fine weather."From anonymous poem written at the coach-office and appearing in the Manchester Chronicle, 1821.

"If I should be so blessed as to revisit again my own country, but more especially Manchester, all that I could hope or desire would be presented before in one view."From the letters of Robert Clive (Clive of India).

"Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times."(From "Coningsby" by Benjamin Disraeli, 1844.)

Our charity for fresh drinking water throughout the world. Poem competition. Aug 2009.

Counch pennies, Pocket pennies, Top Draw pennies too,
Ash Tray pennies, Mucky pennies, Any Penny 'ill do.
Under the bed pennies lost in't fluff, YOU can't buy now't with a pee
But send your pee's to us my friends, And we can buy a sea.

B Morton. (12)

The Manchesters

0) Manchester UK , Lincoln Square,
1.New Hampshire
2.Connecticut
3.Iowa
4.Massachusetts
5. Missouri
6.Pennsylvania
7.Tennessee
8.Marshall, Alabama
9.Walker, Alabama
10.California
11.Georgia
12.Illinois
13.Dearborn, Indiana
14.Montgomery, Indiana
15.Kansas
16.Kentucky
17.Louisiana
18.Maine
19.Maryland
20.Michigan
21.Minnesota
22.Montana
23.North Carolina
24.Adams, Ohio
25.Summit, Ohio
26.Oklahoma
27.South Dakota
28.Red River, Texas
29.Vermont
30.Washington
31.Winsconsin.
32.Pando, Bolivia
33.Nickerie, Surinam
34.Ontario, Canada.
35.Manchester Parish, Jamaica

The Bikes

problem is that all the biker TV that now exists expect to get a bike for nothing + support, cash, promotion etc etc.

BMW, TRIUMPH, HARLEY I like these bikes, but they get asked everyday for a free hand from bigger fish that l'il old me.

This is of course you top dog world tourer, BMW R1200GS Adventure. made famous by Ewan N Charlie (Long Way Round & Down).

£12,000 is a bit rich

Your Triumph Rocket 3 tourer is of course a big beast 2.9 litr engine and enough power to rip your arms off. Great for the USA highways, and frankly a bit of a wish lister for me. just to show that we still have a UK bike legacy for the world.











Pic courtesy of Triumph USA









Then there is Harley and the list of models is endless. They are in trouble so they say. lets hope they say Hey pete, take ur pic.

29 Manchetsers in USA.
It would be rude not to visit every one. Even the Dakota Ghost town, blown away by a tornado. 7000 miles, thats a lot of Manchesters.

More Manchester info to follow.

Update

many a good idea was quashed by the complete lack of 'getting it' , by the potential backers. The art of sponsorship is a battle ground and I have no doubts that if I was some B lister celeb, then the powers would listen a bit longer.
I have read just about every biker adventure book out there, and i common with ebery other writer, they did it because it was what they wanted to do. No issue of selling books or getting fame. Days like these should happen to you, written and oerformed by Dan Walsh, a real renegade and social drop out, Brilliant. Lois on the Loose and Under Asian Sykes, Ted Simpson and the Jupiter duet of motor cycle bibology. They all got paid, and got backing for the follow ups, I do need to make a living, but I also beleve that there is a story going back 120 years about Manchester, the 6 million people city in Northern England where it all began. Famous for just about everything, from public transport, modern policing, computers, railways, Rolls Royce, The industrial revolution, cotton, music and black puddings.
The other 30 odd Manchesters spread across the globe must have a connection, and it's my mission to search for the slightest thread that shows that The man can leave Manchester, but the Manchester can not leave the man.
I need help and all the bits between, business is bad, the UK is in a massive downturn and the economy is at breaking point. All we need it some light hearted informative and lets hope funny Mancunions from across the world to show that we can take it, make it and shake it, with the rest.

Busy Busy

Been TWITTERIN like crazy, search Road2Manchester for daily comments.

Bin for a long one on a R1200GS BMW, its just the job, though it;s a bit like paying £150 for a tennis racket, just for Wimbledon Week trips to the park. Nice Bike Nice Nioce want one.

STILL trying to get things done but Spring 2010 seems more likely.

7000 miles total including Dakota ghost town Manchester.

BIN Travellin

hey just been over to Zermatt (Switzerland) on a get fitter not fatter hit.

Gotta get rid of 4-5 stone to stop the fatigue. and look better in leather pants.

10,000 ft above Zermatt looking at the Matterhorn, breathless in more ways than one.

2nd mortgage for food and hotel but worth it.... go see ur self.

Here seen reading my MCN.

Got Radio interview to do live on Sunday.

More later.

Whatever next

Twitter now has 39 followers.. gee should be 300000000 by now.
Bike not forthcoming

Off to Zermatt n the 19th to see Matt Ahorn, (who is he anyway)

No work this week... quiet quiet quite broke.

Been away

Sorry been 'orf for a while. Work commitments, just trying to make a living in the currnt climate is a chore.
OK the trip planning is going slow. Everyone is cutting back and unless you are a celebrity, the chances of sponsorship by the big butts, is not happening.
Got the TV side sorted, though they only agree to principal based on a promo starter.

WANTED 30 second video clips from Manchester's across the globe. Best one gets inclusion on promo.

send to pete.johnson@37.com
or download to twitter. pennyperlitre.

Keep watching.

Pete

Le Tunnel

So spent a few days in Le Touquet Paris Plage, in Normandy, and was shocked at the price of everything. The Euro € has done to Europe, what decimalisation did to the UK in the 70's. No one really wanted it, then realised that the price of just about every thing went up 50%
'Lets build a tunnel under the channel to make European travel accessable to the masses'
The TUNNEL, when announced all thse years ago, was said to be the answer to England's high priced ferry transport to the rest of Europe. WRONG, like the Euro, it has just exceeded all my missgivings by charging £108 one way (out), and as we stayed an unplanned extra day, €280 Euros one way (Back in), at 2pm on a Tuesday. CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY price, No wonder the train was empty. A ferry from £112 is bad enough and the attendant was so **oody rude.
" So do you want this ticket or not???" Nice lady NOT.



EG: Great Lakes Canada 789 miles $115 car a 2 passengers and a cabin. Now thats good.
RIP OFF BRITAIN, why those lost souls trying to get on the back of trucks for a free ride to the UK are bothering, I just don't know. Do they know what it's really like over here? I doubt it.

GRIPE OVER.

BIKERS join me for a mile.

Crickey Charlie, well William actually. Just shocked about the number of celebs that are bikers. Here is a list and the challenge for today is to get
A) At least a penny sponsorship from ya'all. You are either IN or your N'owt. (As Geldoff once said.).

B) You can join me for a mile whilst passing your nearest county.

Amanda Bearse Aaron Eckhart Caprice Hulk Hogan
ANASTACIA (please please) Adrian Brody Carre Otis Ice Cube
Angela Jolie. Oh yes. Al gore Catherine Ball Jay Leno
Ann Richards Al Kaline Charle Sheen Jezzer Irons
Antonio Banderas Alanis Morisette CHER Jim carrey
Axl Rose Aland band Cindy Margolis Jessica alba
Ben Campbell Alfonso Ribeiro Clint Eastwood John Travolta
Bill Goldberg Alton Brown Dan Akroyd Jude Law
Bill Mueller. Billy Bob Thornton The Hoff Kate Hudson
Bill wallace Billy Gibbons Demi Moore Keanu Reeves
Billy Joel Bob Geldoff (Sir) Dennis Hopper (a must) King of Jordon
Prince William Bob Segar Doobie Bros Kyle Petty
BONO Brad Pit Fabio (bit of competition) Laurence Fishbourne
Branscombe Richmond (Cool) Bree Turner Gary Condit Leo Dicaprio
Brian Bosworth Brock Lesnor Harrison Ford Llam Nealson (I will find you)
Bruce The Boss Springsteen. Bruce Willis Heatgher Kozar Malcolm S forbes
Bryan Adams Cameron Dias Hugh Laurie Marc Knopller
Mary Hart Matt Le Blanc Mel Gibson Michael Schumaker
Mickey Rourke Mike Oldfield Naomi Watts Nastassja Kinski
Nick Cage Nikki Sixx Orlando Bloom Ozzy Ozbourne
Pam Anderson PETER FONDA PINK Russel Crowe
Rutger Hauer SAM ELLIOT Sheryl Crowe Slash
Sting Ewan and Charlie Tom Cruise Vin Diesel

Well thats a few of you, if you a a biker or know others.... register for a Pee.


One penny, one cent, one Dollar one Euro, one day, one world one litre, one aim, water for one....everyone.

Real bikers care.

pennyperlitre at twitter.

S'all gone pear shaped.

Ohhhhh! not good at the moment. Still trying to get TV sponsorship, but ready to approach Triumph again ref T Bird: Nice size and more agile than the Rocket. Got some good leads forUK and USA.

Lincoln Square to Free Trade Hall

Lincoln Square, Queen Street Manchester UK, and the massively tall Lincoln Statue with carving of of his letter to Manchester.

Lincoln Square is off Deansgate (the main road through the busy cafe culture centre of town). Though this famous friend has links with the city, many people will have never seen this quiet corner, with it's paved area and benches. Surrounded by offices and a few cafes and a pub, the square is only 60 mtrs off the main road. Lincoln himself an inpressive 12ft or so tall on a 8ft marble plinth, looks over the Manc's as they enjoy a few rays of sun after an afternoon of heavy showers.

Twitted

Twitter account followers still growing. The 'water' charity theme seems to be hitting home.
It's the one thing we can not survive with, and without the simplest supply of clean water, millions will die this year across the globe.
If this was a dictatorship, government or religious group causing this disaster, there would be outrage. 1 penny, 1 cent, 1 nickle, from all of you will do. Pennyperlitre is the twitter site, go there and join in.
coming soon MILLION PIXEL SITE add your pennies worth.

Twitted

twitter me at pennyperlitre wanted 1,000,000 followers

Summer Finshed.

Wow, the Triumph Rocket is a big bike. Hard on the arms to keep on under acceleration. Choices still to make.

Rain all day today so not going out. Harley the dog being a pest, wants too much attention.

Tesco dayz...... what have we become, when the entertainment for a WEEKEND IS TO SHOP.
Brits have gone mad. Can't buy it, but no harm in looking, why not go back to work Monday with a feeling of defeat. One day eh Doris!!?

OK Abe Lincoln.

Pres Abe Lincoln memorial statue in Lincoln Square, Manchester, UK Good place to start the journey. Captains log, Star Date 31st Dec 2009. Then across town to the Free Trade Hall refer to letters from Mr President Lincoln read here 200 years ago. Next stop Manchester Town Hall visit Mayor to receive message for all Mayors across USA Manchesters.

Busy Busy........
Launching Millon Pixel Sponsorship map this week. Site addess to follow.

Sunday again.

Manchester Manchester, spent a great night in town Friday. Really busy as weather was OK, Must get answer from Town Hall and some photos of landmarks.

SPONSOR MILLION PIXELS

If you are anywhere on this map, you can sponsor by adding your advert, logo or message in 10 pixel squares (min 100) The route through the Manchesters will go first. Sell your service now.

Triumph Rocket 111 Touring.

Going over to Blackburn later to see a Rocket. Must get a photo or two of me on one.
Also reading book (Good Vibrations) just to get the juices flowing. Scores 5/10
Read this and " These are the days that must happen to you" Dan Walsh. 9/10
Long Way Round and LW Down, McGregor Boorman. 9/10- 7/10
Jupiter Travels and Jupiter Returns by Ted God. 10/10 - 9/10
Lois on the Loose. 4/10

So watch out for US of AManchester, byMe

Calling all Manchesters

OK it starts tonight.
Contacting all Manchesters (including mine), To get tV and Radio contacts, mayors etc.
all replys to pete.johnson@37.com

The badge

received a friendship badge from US embassy in London with letter of support. Just waiting for reply from Harley Davidson and Triumph America regarding the bike to use. Brit Airways not too happy to give away trans atlantic flights until more media involvement. (typical).

Mike Jackson memorial on TV, he was a year younger than me..... need to do this even more now. LIFE LESS ORDINARY must watch that film???

US of A

Got a nice e-mail from US Embassy in Londinium Village. No financial support (of course)but they will offer there luck and a 'friends of USA Badge'. We like badges.

Just got back from London today, 32 dgs tooooooo warm. Great sat watching mad biker couriers doing their thang, in the crazy London traffic.
5 hours and three tracffic jams, +200 miles and no air con in the car. NOT nice.

Mondays

Great weather today: BIKING WEATHER..... just need a bike now?
harley off on hols at Mums whilst we go to Londinium overnight.

No response from twitter contacts????

FFridayyyyyy

Hi, just twittering all and sundry with this address, Micky Jackson dead and he was a year younger than me, ouch God Bless Mikey, hope you find internal piece where ever you end up.

It's all too short, so spend a penny and get my project a little bit closer.

hello celeb's, Ok things are hard out there, but this project is for the fun of it, Fun??? 6000 miles up to now, on a motorbike.

CHARITY FILM DOCUMENTARY FOOD PEOPLE PLACES......... One Manc, One mission, One Motorcycle.

01 Manchester UK ( Junction 19 M6).at the end of the East Lancs Rd: Where Cornonation Street
comes from,,,,,,,,

Going to:

MANCHESTER....

1.New Hampshire
2.Connecticut
3.Iowa
4.Massachusetts
5. Missouri
6.Pennsylvania
7.Tennessee
8.Marshall, Alabama
9.Walker, Alabama
10.California
11.Georgia
12.Illinois
13.Dearborn, Indiana
14.Montgomery, Indiana
15.Kansas
16.Kentucky
17.Louisiana
18.Maine
19.Maryland
20.Michigan
21.Minnesota
22.Montana
23.North Carolina
24.Adams, Ohio
25.Summit, Ohio
26.Oklahoma
27.South Dakota
28.Red River, Texas
29.Vermont
30.Washington
31.Winsconsin.
32.Pando, Bolivia
33.Nickerie, Surinam
34.Ontario, Canada.
35.Manchester Parish, Jamaica

It would only be right to visit the ghost town of Manchester, Dakota that was blown away by a tornado..... wouldn't it?


Sponsor a pixel or ten on my map. Just a penny per pixel, (min 10)

Coming soon.


Pete.

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MILLION PIXEL SPONSORSHIP AUCTION

The USofA route map (Google Earth), is now available to sponsor sets of 10 pixels for your message.logo or web address. Penny per pixel (Min 10)
If you are en-route, in any of the following states or even better in any of the Manchester,s listed, then e-mail. pete.johnson@37.com for further info.

Planning

THE ROUTE

In no particular order yet.

twitter

Thought a charity should benefit from this so Water Aid willget profits, I am twittering at pennyperlitre so follow me and my plans