This month’s Slow Speed and Gymkhana session was again held at West Point, on the Lynch Wood Business Park, Peterborough, on Saturday 7th October.
There was a great turn out of PECAM Members attending to try out the skills on offer.
This session saw the riders progress through the five basic exercises, the Skills exercises on offer develop over time, and will be able to be used to extend a rider’s ability beyond whatever they thought was possible when they started.
The most basic exercise was riding your bike in a straight line at a slow walking pace, through U-Turns and basic figure-8’s to a slow speed slalom, on a layout that goes from relaxed to difficult. From these basic skills, then the riders, should they choose to, can move on to the more advanced riding skills used in Gymkhana style configurations.
Once again, the PECAM bike was on hand for all to practice either the slow speed skills or the gymkhana.
Whilst the training is offered to all PECAM Members including Associates on the first Saturday of each month and all are encouraged to take advantage of the free training (where else can you get training and guidance for free?) the site is also available to any Observer with an Associate, on any other Saturday, between 10am and 2.00pm.
If any Observer is interested in taking advantage of training area, please drop Bob Stewart a message via Slack with the names and registration numbers, so that Bob can inform West Point of attendance.
Look out for details for the next slow speed training, we encourage all PECAM Members to take advantage of the training, it is another part of what is on offer to all the Group, if there is one thing that you are struggling with the Training Team will be more than happy to give you advice to help you.
The session was a great success, with everyone enjoying the morning including refreshments supplied by Bob S, with particular interest in the chocolate biscuits!
A big thank you to everyone who ran the morning and to the PECAM members for attending and making it such a success.