Rideout

Winter riding

Winter Fun!!

OK, so none of us really like getting cold, but winter riding can be very rewarding on a bright, clear, cool day.  Riding in challenging conditions definitely enhances your self-awareness and improves your motorcycling skill set. PECAM is a local road safety charity, and associated to IAM Roadsmart, a national […]

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Christmas Cabin Fever Ride Out

I don’t know about you but as the Christmas period starts to close I begin to twitch and by the end of boxing day my patience within the family dynamic begins to fail. For this reason my Christmas plans had always factored in a ride-out, mainly to stop my name […]

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Final Festive Ride Out for 2021

Sunday 12th December was the final ride out for 2021, which 13 PECAM members attended Peterborough Haddon Services A1/A605 Junction, to enjoy the predicted unusually glorious weather. After a briefing by ride leader Brian Wingrove on the route and destination, with so many bikes in attendance, the drop off system […]

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Remembrance Day Ride Out

Our first winter ride out coincided, as it usually does, with remembrance Sunday,  This typically means that the ride lead tries to time the ride so that part way through the first half, nearing 11am, we are able to safely stop at an appropriate spot for 2 minutes silence.  Sometimes, […]

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Sunday Ride 10th October

7 bikes and 8 members (1 pillion) left a grey Haddon services on a new route to a fairly frequented destination of ours – The Cafe Ventoux, Tugby in Leicsterhire. Previous routes to get there have been challenging for some as some of the roads can loosely be called roads! […]

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Cafe Nevill, a new route to an old favourite

The first of the regular twice per month social group rides this September was to an old favourite in the village of Medbourne. Medbourne nestles in the Leciestershire countryside, fed by excellent roads from all directions. The cafe is in the heart of the village and sits behind the Nevill […]

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There are twisties even in the Fens…

Seven Go Riding Today’s rideout successfully completed! On this ride I was joined by six other PECAM members and after a turbulent start we got underway from Eye Services and headed towards Thorney. We Explored some excellent Fen roads and passed through numerous Fenland villages up to Holbeach St Matthews […]

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Dodging Thunderstorms…

We had only 3 responses to the [internal message board] post for the regular summer 3rd Tuesday social ride to the Old Ferry Boat Inn at Holywell, so I knew it was going to be a small gathering. Then one dropped out, making it smaller still. The weather looked awful […]

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The Long and the Short of it…

Meeting as usual at the Peterborough Haddon Services on the A1 at 9:15, the group who had opted for the shorter ride for various reasons had a chat about their bikes and other odds and ends as well as a thorough ride brief and then got underway at 9:30am.  The […]

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