Blog by Barry Wroe Sunday 22nd September promised heavy rain for most of the day, but this didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of four hardy PECAM Members, as they meet at Haddon Services for the Plan B route, keeping the ride “in our own back yard”. The route was a 50mile […]
Read More
Day One (Thursday) The Group travelled down the evening before and stayed overnight at Premier Inn’s close to the Euro Tunnel, to break up the long journey that lay ahead on Thursday. Our journey down South had been in wind and rain and the weather had forecasted much of the […]
Read More
Day Three (Saturday) Pegasus Bridge Memorial Today’s itinerary included a first stop at the Pegasus Bridge Memorial, 1 Avenue Major John Howard 14860, Ranville. The capture of the River Orne bridge at Ranville and the bridge across the Caen Canal at Bénouville is the most famous mission of the airborne […]
Read More
Blog by Bob Stewart Sunday 8th September, Social Ride Out, arranged and led by Bob Armstrong. Despite varying degrees of precipitation around our region this morning, a Roger, a Steve, an Andy and two Bobs decided to test the waterproof qualities of their clothing. Meeting at the usual location at […]
Read More
This month’s Slow Speed and Gymkhana session was held on Saturday 7th September. There was a great turn out with 18 PECAM Members attending, to try out the skills on offer from the Training Team. This Month we had an additional training session, kindly run by Mark Bearman, of puncture […]
Read More
During the regular monthly, Skills Session, held at Westpoint in Peterborough, Septembers session included a demonstration on how to repair a puncture roadside. Mark Bearman had kindly offered to show any PECAM Members attending some of the different options of puncture repairs and with the assistance of my own bike […]
Read More
The second Sunday social ride out was organised and lead by Martin Jones, the destination was the Silver Apple Farm Shop in Buckminster with an end destination of the Boxwood Café, Oundle. Meeting place for 9.15am was our usual spot at Haddon Services, where fifteen bikes and two pillions joined […]
Read More
Saturday 24th August was BMW Sycamore Annual Ladies Event, this year was the second year of holiday the event, and it was hoped to be bigger and better than the first one, but unfortunately, the weather had other ideas! The Event held by Sycamores was all about encouraging female riders […]
Read More
Tuesday 20th August saw Kevin Hudson arrange and lead an evening social ride out to The Horse and Jockey at Manton. The meeting place was our usual Haddon Services point for 6pm for a briefing and to leave at 6.30pm. The ride was just over an hour to allow time […]
Read More
This month’s Slow Speed and Gymkhana session was held on Saturday 3rdAugust. There was a great turn out with 22 PECAM Members attending, despite the promiseof showers, to try out the skills on offer from the Training Team. The session saw the riders progress through the five basic exercises, theSkills […]
Read More