On Two Wheels – Chelmsford & District Advanced Motorcyclists Chelmsford & District Advanced Motorcyclists Registered Charity No. 1111635 Affiliated to
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Chairman’s Ramble Training News Fjord Explorer Bike Tours for the Wounded CaDAM Accounts
www.cadam.org Events Co Ordinator We Need You!
The CaDAM Team Chairman Tony Metcalf chairman@cadam.org
Membership Secretary Graham Smith membership@cadam.org
Committee Member Mick Gowlett
Vice Chairman We Need You! vice.chairman@cadam.org
Chief Observer Dennis Kitteridge chiefobserver@cadam.org
Committee Member Nipper
Treasurer We Need You! treasurer@cadam.org
Training Co-Ordinator Doug Prasser trainingcoord@cadam.org
Committee Member Peter Mathews
Group Secretary Ron Priest groupsec@cadam.org
O2W Editor Mark Anstey editor@cadam.org
Webmaster Sam Fleming webmaster@cadam.org
OUR AIMS Chelmsford and District Advanced Motorcyclists (CaDAM) is one of many groups across the country whose aim is to improve motorcycling road safety by helping people prepare for, and pass, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) Advanced Motorcycling Test. Our group is affiliated to, but not subservient to, the IAM. However, because we share the same aims, we often seem to speak with one voice. CaDAM is run by volunteers and serves the districts of Essex in and around Chelmsford. As well as helping people to pass the Advanced Test, we run the group as a club, so that once you have passed, you will still want to stay on and take part in our other activities. We provide: Structured instruction to prepare for the IAM Advanced Motorcycling Test.You can choose a course that runs on Saturdays or one that runs on Sundays. These courses are designed to take even relatively inexperienced riders and raise their riding to IAM test standards.
When on a club run, be it an evening or a weekend event, speed limits must be observed. We have no exemption and advanced riding does not need to involve higher speeds. When approaching hazards appropriate care must be taken. On club runs you are running as CaDAM and under the IAM banner.
Machine control days to increase your machine handling skills. These sessions are held off the public road, so we can explore your capabilities and those of your machine in safety. Social runs over challenging routes (no motorways, thanks!) to interesting places. Weekends away to ride some new roads, normally out of Essex. Monthly group meetings, often with a talk from a speaker on an interesting topic to do with motorcycling. On 2 Wheels – This newsletter, keeping you up to date with what’s happening. Want to know more? Call our general enquiries number 07432 560 987 – or just turn up at a meeting and introduce yourself to a committee member! Future Events – listings and directions can be found on the back cover.
Do not bring this into disrepute. Also the Marker system will be used. Anyone not familiar with this system please speak to one of the run organisers who will run through this for you. Thanks and safe riding. Tony Metcalf, Chairman, CaDAM
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Chairman’s Ramble Every now and again people raise that old chestnut “What does IAM RoadSmart do for me?” It happened recently
If you were a member of the other motorcycle group
when
someone
in Chelmsford, and a member of ROSPA, it would cost
decided not to join the club because the IAM didn’t
you £53 per annum, according to my reckoning. For
provide him with anything. Well, first of all:
those of you that think 91p is a lot, you had better
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sit down, that is a massive £1.01. ‘NURSE, FETCH It provides this club with the structure that enables
THE DEFIBRILLATOR!’
us to function properly, by setting standards that our Observers have to comply with. They also lobby
I am pleased to say that if 91p per week seems
parliament on our behalf, and unless you have had
like a lot of money to you when you are sitting on
your head in a bucket the last 12 months, you will have
a throbbing machine, that probably costs nor th
noticed they regularly appear in the media giving help
of £10,000, then you probably need to readdress
and advice
your priorities; consider your IAM membership as a
• Without IAM RoadSmart many of us wouldn’t be
very cost effective insurance premium, true, it can’t guarantee that you’ll stay safe and out of trouble, but
the riders we are today. Some of us may have given
it’ll cer tainly help and may be even help you to enjoy
up biking or worse still be unable to ride because we
riding more.
have been injured
• A small club like ours would not be able to market
I am pleased to say that our membership is made up of kind, generous people that realise that both IAM
itself successfully, but the IAM carries out Marketing
RoadSmart and CaDAM are Charities trying to make
activities everyday on our behalf
our communities safer and happily pay our membership
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fees. On rare occasions, on time. Our club would not exist without IAM RoadSmart
which means you wouldn’t have easy access to two ride
So next time you hear, ‘What have the IAM done for
outs per month, members training days, BBQ, Spring
us?’, you can tell them! Ride safe!
and Xmas meal, 11 group nights (sometimes with guest speakers), organised trips at home and abroad, machine control days and if you are an Associate access to advanced riding
Tony
March Club Night (after the AGM) Pete Doherty gives an insight to, ‘What the IAM does for you!’
However, what really irritates me (polite version!), is that it costs 91p per week. I’ll repeat that, NINETY ONE PENCE A WEEK. For goodness sake, what else can you buy for 91p per week? 2 cigarettes, a quarter of a pint of beer? Can you even buy a Newspaper for that? You can’t park in Maldon, Colchester or Chelmsford for that!
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Training News with Douglas Prasser In the last Committee meeting, Chief Observer Dennis Kitteridge stated that the current Observer status is stable at the moment. We currently have 5 Observers on National Observer status and 3 on Local Observer status, all of whom are currently training to reach their National Observer level (including Doug Prasser who recently passed his Masters with distinction - well done!. We are very pleased to have 6 full members who are training to become Local Observers (and then hopefully National Obs) with the group. David Braid, Darren Kitteridge, Mike Nunn and Ron Priest are the nearest to gaining Colin Snow presents his trophy to Chris Layley as CaDAM’s Observer of the Year 2016.
their training status, so well done to you guys! It seems also, that we are very pleased to welcome Ali and Kate Stevens to the Training Team too, following their recent test passes, welcome aboard and we’re very pleased to have you with us. According to the figures compiled for the AGM, we currently have 59 active Associates, up from 34 in last year’s AGM report. I’m sure that most of you are fully aware of the Training booking form accessed via the Training page on the website. If we could ask you to continue to mark your intentions for each training activity, ie. Both rides and theory evenings, it really does help us to organise the resources accordingly. Can I also ask please, that if your availability changes, ie. You have said that you’ll be attending, but then can’t, can you please amend accordingly - many thanks. As ever, if for any reason you’re struggling with your training; not able to make the weekend training sessions, the once-a-month Tuesday Theory evenings or lack confidence in any part of your riding or theory then please speak to one of us (or your mentor) and we’ll see what we can do to help. One last question to you Associates, in particular those of you who are soon to take their test. It has been identified that we don’t seem to retain all of our Full Members once they have passed their test and would love to know why. If you are only a member to simply pass your test and have no interest in the social side of the group, would you please let us know why? Thanks in advance.
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Doug is awarded his Masters, claiming a Distinction for all of the hard work!
Dennis presents pass certificates to ‘chip off the old block’ Darren, Kevin Acres and husband and wife Alistair and Kate Stevens, Kate achieving a well deserved F1rst!
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www.cadam.org Having been totally bitten by the touring bug, Sian and I were up for a challenge; a road trip a little further afield from the normal skip over the Channel to Europe. Here in the UK, I feel that we are very lucky with easy and affordable access to some stunning biking roads. Within the UK itself, we have the beauty and magnificence of Mid/ North Wales, Scotland, the Lakes and over that narrow stretch of water, access to fabulous mountain roads, through France, Italy and Germany to name just three. In the UK there are notable roads such as Snake Pass and the Cat and Fiddle, although it has been said, that these glorious roads have become victims of their own success. Freedom (through speed) has been severely clamped down, the Cat and Fiddle now features 50mph average speed cameras, but as will become clear, many of these roads are so much more than simply being twisty speedways.
Prints of Fjord Explorer are available at markansteyprints.com
We decided that for the Summer of 2016 we would travel into new territory and were drawn to the online images showing
Issue 50 • January/April 2017 Norway, it’s roads, mountains and fjords. Sian had already looked at a couple of routes to get there, but the easiest looked like catching the overnight ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland. We were concerned that cabins would sell out early on and so made the booking despite not having the rest of the holiday planned at the point. As the departure date approached, we still hadn’t finalised where we wanted to go and this is where Julie at MCi Tours comes in. Sian had researched a number of online tour companies, many of which run guided and self guided tours. We really wanted the freedom to explore at our own pace, as a keen photographer, we wanted to be able to stop for pictures as the mood took us, rather than joining a snake of other bikes and being told when we could stop. We found an itinerary that suited well from MCi Tours, they have a good selection of self guided tours on their website, but their “Best of Norway’ looked to suit us best for time and the places we knew we’d like to see. We’d seen photos on the Atlantic Highway online and knew that was one road we must ride. After a couple of phone calls and emails to Julie at MCi Tours, she created an itinerary to suit the days we had available. We were lucky to have a couple of days more than the itinerary showed and so Julie extended our tour accordingly, factoring in a longer stay in Geiranger and a trip slightly further north, to the Atlantic Highway. We could have ridden up and back to Geiranger in one day, but wanted to be able to savour the trip and not to have to rush and so stayed somewhere more local in Molde. Although we’d already organised the ferry crossing, Julie arranged everything else. She had booked all of the hotels en route, supplied us with vouchers, detailed routes and notes, including any driving notes and rules, for eg. that lane splitting, filtering, is illegal in Germany and use of indicator to move back in after an overtake in Denmark is a legal requirement, not simply a courtesy.
Setting sail from Harwich, Wonder Woman, is that you(?) and Hertshals
Connecting ferries from Denmark to Norway (and the return passage) were booked and all the necessary paperwork supplied as a concise batch of emailed pdfs. Absolutely everything was covered, directions were supplied, in a listed form, and included distance, road number, indication of which signs to follow; perfectly clear and easy to follow. I actually programmed the SatNav, 7
www.cadam.org but we obviously took all of the routes with us in case of electronic gremlins! It was a beautiful Friday evening in July that we set off on the hour or so ride to Harwich Docks to catch the 2300hrs crossing. The trip was easy, the roads quiet and boarding, slightly delayed, but easy enough. We were chatting to another couple on a Triumph who were also going to Norway and taking in some of the same places as us over their couple of weeks away. The bikes were securely strapped down and we went off in search of the cabin. It was small, without external windows, the cheaper option, but very comfortable and highly recommended. After a pretty good meal in the ferry’s restaurant, we even saw Wonder Woman in there, although I must say, she’d let herself go a bit since the last time I’d seen her! Afterwards, we retired to the berth for about 6 hours kip. It was so smooth.There was no rocking of the waves and I have been on bumpier trains! Arrival in Holland was smooth and efficient. We unloaded and cleared passport control quickly. The Dutch roads were a joy! Smooth, easy flowing and easy to navigate. We moved into Germany and the roads were very much like ours in the UK, heavy traffic, pot holes and traffic jams - doubly
frustrating as we weren’t permitted to filter through stationary traffic. We had chosen to use the motorways as our stop off was in Hamburg, some 320 miles from our start point at the Hook of Holland, there would be plenty of time for scenic routes later on. Eventually, the traffic cleared and we were able to make good progress, stopping every couple of hours for a leg-stretch and fuel if required. We arrived in Hamburg in good time. The bike was parked securely in the hotel’s underground car park. We even had the opportunity to have a walk around the locality. My mental picture of Hamburg was a classical, architecture rich town, but in reality, I think we were in an area, not too dissimilar to Romford and it’s proximity to London, certainly not what we had expected! Every other shop was a shoe shop! I have never seen so many shoe shops, I can’t imagine them competing with each other.The only explanation must be that the area has great sole! Following a good comfortable night, we hit the motorways again, heading north to our next stop, Hertshals on the tip of Denmark; the port for our crossing to Norway the following morning. The roads cleared and improved again in Denmark and we arrived at a fabulous hotel in a small port town. It was a lovely evening and we had a stroll around
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Aerial Geiranger and trolls!
the area, eating out in a local hostelry before retiring to bed in preparation for our 5 minute drive to the port the following morning. Once again, the boarding of the ferry was simple and efficient. All paperwork supplied by Julie was spot on. The crossing was to take about 4 hours if I recall correctly. It was a lovely day, and whilst the ferry was very busy, we were able to relax up on deck and wander to the restaurant to get food, it was all very civilised. We arrived in Kristiansand, Norway, disembarked and left the port. It was at this point that someone pressed the ‘Oh My Goodness!’ switch! The scale and beauty of the place is like nothing we’d seen before. Beautiful flowing, smooth roads, no traffic and scenery to die for! At the beginning of this article I mentioned the fact that an increased number of UK roads are having their speed limits capped. The maximum speed on the majority of Norwegian roads is 60 Kph, believe me, this is more than enough, there is so much to see
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Issue 50 • January/April 2017 and enjoy, it was a pleasure to have to saunter. Speeding fines in Norway are excruciatingly high and for that reason, no one we saw exceeded the limit. It was all so relaxed. Our first stop that evening was in Hovden, 125 miles up the most spectacular road. It’s an area popular for cross country skiing in the winter months. Hilly, but not mountainous as ski resorts often are - the Norwegians love their cross country skiing. We were staying in a lovely, large, but cosy log cabin.This is obviously a really popular area in the winter. However, in July was spacious, clean, fairly quiet and (as was experienced in all places we visited in Norway), the staff were very helpful, friendly and spoke perfect English! We had our first taste of rain the next day. A place so green, obviously has copious amounts of the wet stuff falling from the skies, but up until this point, we’d not experienced any. To be fair, it was still dry when we left, but the drizzle started soon after and whilst not torrential, was the sort of rain to penetrate all clothing, regardless of how waterproof it’s supposed to be. Our ride to Voss was about 140 miles, so a nice gentle ride was enjoyed, still at a maximum of 60 Kph and still through the most stunning scenery. Voss was the first large town that we’d encountered, but despite this and despite the foul weather was still a joy. Great quality roads, clear directions and good driving. We found our hotel for the night and it also had a real wow factor. A huge glass fronted, modern hotel with acres of marble and artwork in the foyer and situated next to a beautiful lake. We excitedly checked in, trudged down the corridor, took the stairs... and walked into the ‘not so new’ part of the hotel, the shabby chic bit, without the chic. Our room was tiny and rather dated. We could see the lake, it was behind the building site! Joking aside, it was perfectly comfortable, although the shortage of space in the room and it’s en suite bathroom made the hanging of wet biking clothes a bit of a problem, but we managed and it
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was only one night after all. The rain eventually stopped and we enjoyed a lovely walk around a very picturesque, modern town before heading back to the hotel for our evening meal, typical of most that were included in our stay, the evening meal was a buffet with a huge variety of choice. The dinning room was particularly busy though, with a huge party of Chinese, who swarmed around the area like locusts, sweeping up everything in their path and with no concern or regard for anyone else - quite incredible to see! We were to see similar antics over a couple of nights when we reached our next stop, Geiranger. The following morning, our sixth day, saw us leave a very sunny Voss heading for one the ‘pearls’ in Norway’s crown, Geiranger. We had a journey of 220 miles and covered scenery that was getting better day by day, although we weren’t sure how that was possible. We passed over spectacular mountain passes, hoped on and off small vehicle ferries, took in breathtaking views and marvelled at gin clear sparkling water and high definition, mirror clear reflections. There was still plenty of snow on some of the top peaks, but the roads were perfectly clear and no ice was encountered. Have I mentioned the roads? The most amazing twisties through the best
Issue 50 • January/April 2017 scenery we’d ever seen. We came over the pass to be confronted with the famous view of Geiranger, the fjord below and ‘boat-park’ for some of the biggest ocean going liners on the planet! Scale was totally confused. The area of the bay looked quite small as we overlooked it from our hotel, and together with the ship moored there, looked a short distance from one side to the other, although we were assured it was about a mile across, but when the buildings on the shoreline were taken into consideration, we realised how massive the bay and the ship was! We had extended our trip from the original one offered by MCi Tours and decided to add a couple of extra days onto this part of the holiday, wanting to explore around the Geiranger area. The following day we decided to leave the bike parked, to wonder down to the town, take a boat trip and walk up into the surrounding hills.That evening we returned to the hotel and when I popped out to the bike for something saw the couple we’d met at Harwich parking up, so we enjoyed dinner and chat catching up with where we’d all been and what we’d seen. It’s a fairly small world to think that we’d bump into them again, but also to find out that Mike (our new found friend) worked for the same company, in the Midlands as my two nephews! We stayed in Geiranger for three days, riding some fabulous roads, including the Trollstigen Pass (three times), a true definition of a winding, mountain pass. The first time we descended was in heavy cloud and it was very unnerving to just see a grey, empty void, just a few feet beyond the low guard rail to our right. However, the other times we ventured up and down, the viz was perfect and now we could actually see how far the drop was! Our next destination, one night away from Geiranger was to head off to the Atlantic Highway. This stunning road is a ribbon of tarmac that island-hops for about 12 miles if I remember rightly. Another amazing feat of engineering across a stunning vista. I imagine that this road would be very treacherous in the winter with the high seas
Views of Geiranger (0.00Hrs at the bottom) & the stupendous ribbon of tarmac of the Atlantic Highway
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battering the road and no doubt suffering with severe ice. However, in the Summer, this road was very busy with tourists and a large number of camper vans and dawdling drivers, but was still well worth the detour to visit. We stayed in Molde that night, another picturesque port, home to an annual jazz festival. Another comfortable night saw us leave on a bright and clear morning and catch another short ferry ride to pick up our road on the other side of the bay. We enjoyed another relaxed ride, taking in the sites and visiting the beautiful town of Alesund. Julie had even included recommended stops for lunch and locations for the best viewpoints. We returned to Geiranger for one further night, before heading to Geilo and then onto Larvik
Time for reflection
where we caught the big ferry back to Hirtshals. We were staying at the same hotel we’d stayed in on the way up.We met another couple, Andy and Deb in Larvik who were also queuing for the same ferry back to Hirtshals. We recognised their paperwork, they had also been on an MCi Tours trip, theirs taking them further up into the Arctic Circle (we’ll do that next time!). We had a good chat with them during the crossing, sharing stories, but unlike ours, their stop over hotel was a further hour and a half ride on the other side whilst ours was only 5 minutes from the port. The hotel had been full for their return trip when they had booked their holiday. We said our temporary goodbyes, knowing that we’d catch up with them again the following night in Hamburg. From Hamburg-cum-Romford, our new friends were catching an early afternoon ferry from the Hook of Holland and so we exchanged contact details and they left promptly the next morning. We had chosen to divert to Delft, in Holland for the final night of the holiday. This was something that Sian had arranged and Julie was happy to fit it in with the itinerary, arranging a ferry crossing
Issue 50 • January/April 2017 to the UK for us the following day. The German roads were the same horror story on the way back down; roadworks and horrendous traffic, but once we crossed the border into Holland all was well again. Our accommodation in Delft was easy to find and lovely too. We spent the night in a gypsy caravan, in the courtyard of a beautiful hotel/B&B. I’d not been to Delft before. It’s a lovely place; a village in size, but with beautiful architecture and a canal network similar to Amsterdam. We enjoyed a beer to two, sitting in the historic town square watching a free folk music show, before heading off to find dinner. The return sailing to Harwich was trouble free, getting us back to Blighty sometime early evening, leaving a short hop to ride home. What an amazing trip. We would heartily recommend Norway, the route and MCi Tours and will definitely return; we’d like to go further up to the Arctic Circle next time! Every aspect of the ride went
perfectly, the only minor mishap on the whole journey being a crackling connection on the intercom over the last couple of days. Julie’s organisation was perfection.The ferries were easy to board (including the hop-on hop-off ones used most days, which were inexpensive), all hotels were excellent (even the pokey room in Voss) and the included meals (mostly buffet) were brilliant. The slow speed limit was a pleasure and meant that we saw lots and returned a very healthy miles-per-gallon figure. We had been advised to get fuel wherever we had the opportunity, but in reality it was plentiful, a little more expensive than here in the UK and the range of the GS was
epic due to the low speeds, the range of a tank in excess of 250 miles, I could probably only stop once now I have a bigger tanked GSA! One final thing, the beer, is rather expensive at about £10 a pint, but hey, when you’re on holiday you need at least one in the evening. If this brief recount has whetted your appetite to visit Norway, I cannot urge you enough to do it – what a wonderful place! If you want an easy trip, tailored to your every need and need I say, cost effectively, I recommend, without hesitation, that you contact MCi Tours! Start saving your beer tokens today though! Mark Anstey
Caravans in Delft
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www.cadam.org MCi Tours is a specialist motorcycle tour operator with over 25 years experience providing ‘Escorted’ tours throughout Europe. A vast wealth of knowledge has been gained over that time about the routes, the hotels and the spectacular sites to visit along the way. MCi also offers a large selection of “self guided” tours on an ad-hoc basis for those who are happy to travel alone or have their own group that they will be travelling with. This offers total flexibility with regard to start date, length of the trip and the freedom of your own tour but has the benefit of MCi’s acquired knowledge and established suppliers. Hotels are pre-booked for you along with your ferry and route plans and ride outs are provided. For a number of years now MCi have also provided ‘FlyRide’ holidays to the USA, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Norway where bike hire is included along with hotels, routes, and guides (guides except Norway) – all you need to add is the flight out there. Indeed, MCi has become somewhat of a specialist on Route 66 in the USA and the grand tour of both North and South Islands of New Zealand. Add to this several organised tours to a selection of MotoGP race meetings across Europe, and MCi could be seen as a one-stop-shop for any motorcycle touring ambitions you may have. Please take a look at: www.mcitours.com
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Spring Meal The venue, once again, is The Lodge Inn in Rettendon, Essex
Friday 21st April 2017 7.00pm for 7.30pm start Mick and Jen Gowlett have been working hard again to arrange another great evening out at the Lodge, the venue chosen for the last couple of year’s Christmas meal and last year’s spring meal. The price is only £15.50 (including a tip). There is an extensive menu to chose from, please see this and sign up on the forum ASAP as numbers are limited (see under the heading ‘Trips and Meals).We look forward to seeing you there for another fun night!
The Lodge: the venue for three very successful parties to date!
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“ Your CaDAM needs
We have a tireless team behind the scenes at CaDAM, but we need your help; New blood with new ideas as well as people to fill vital roles. Generally speaking, no experience is required, just enthusiasm and a willingness to help. We would like to invite all to join the Committee, but also really need to fill the position of Vice Chairman, as your Chairman officially (following club rules) only has a year left in the seat. In addition, we also require a Treasurer as Chris McEvoy hung up his calculator in March (at the AGM), after 4 loyal and very much
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appreciated years. The majority of the committee are also Observers (already giving the club a great deal of time) and for the sake of balance we really should have some of the decisions on Observing protocol being considered by those outside of the rank. All interested parties will be made most welcome. We’ll even get biscuits at the meetings if it means you’ll come! So, what do you say? Please contact any of the committee or simply turn up at the next meeting. Please, we really do need your help! Thank you. 17
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At the recent Excel Motorcycle Show I got to talking to father and daughter team Daren and Amy Clover about their ambitious plans to run motorcycle tours for and on behalf of wounded service men and women. Their vision is now making good progress and sounds like a fantastic and truly inspiring activity for both able bodied riders and those who have been wounded. They are currently building up a team of local ambassadors and it is hoped that we will soon have someone to visit CaDAM and to tell us more. Blue Cucumber Tours Ltd (BCTL) specialise in guided and self-guided motorcycle tours in the United States and Europe. Offering tours for solo riders, rider and pillion and groups. We are proud to be the official tour operator for “Bike Tours for the Wounded”. We specialise in taking wounded, injured and sick members of our Armed Forces and veterans. On an all expenses paid tours (with the exception of the flight). On the Best of Route 66 Tours and the Wild West Tours in the USA. We also take them on our European D-Day Tours of Normandy as pillions. If you would like to do something
special in offering up your rear seat we’d love to hear from you, or alternatively, if you could fund or part fund a flight, then ‘Bike Tours for the Wounded’ would love to hear from you! Many riders join us on tour as individuals, but quickly build friendships that last the test of time! You will see many of the unique sights that greeted
Issue 50 • January/April 2017 travelers decades ago whilst enjoying all the thrills that go with motorcycle riding. Please note, if you are looking for a fast and furious tour then maybe our tours are not for you!
Wounded Warrior Challenges Our Wounded Warrior challenges are in support of Bike Tours for The Wounded (BT4TW). With your help and support as a rider, we can offer a life changing experience to these brave men and women, through the medium of motorbike pillion riding. We are proud that they choose us to manage all of their motorcycle tours and motorcycle ride out days. We are the official tour operator for Bike Tours for The Wounded (BT4TW) and the team ensure that every wounded Injured or Sick serving or veteran is fully supported. Anyone wishing to ride with service personnel or veterans will under go security and competence checks to make sure they are suitable to offer a pillion ride to our wounded Injured or Sick heroes.
USA Guided Tours We would like to offer you the chance of taking part in USA
guided tours across America or one of the many other tours on offer. These include: The Best of Route 66, The Wild West Tour and our Wounded Warrior Tours (in support of our brave service men and women who have sacrificed so much so that we may benefit from the freedom that their individual sacrifice has provided us.) If you prefer an individually tailored package to meet your personal requirement, then look no further. We are always here to help and support our clients in developing the perfect motorcycle touring experience. We are looking for experienced riders with enough time and affordability to join each tour offering their rear seat to one of these brave servicemen or servicewomen. This Amazing tour visits some the most iconic attractions on America’s “Mother Road” Route 66. (States visited are; California, Nevada and Arizona)
Supporters Group Launch We are pleased to announce
that in order to help fund some of the wounded’s travel costs, the BT4TW Supporters group has now launched. We believe that the greatest benefit of being a BT4TW Supporter is that your subscription/donation of £30 (membership fee) along with that of 64 other supporters will have funded a place on a US challenge for one of our British WIS. As time goes by, it is our intention to provide discounts with a difference! We have approached an initial number of companies and organisations who have indicated a desire to offer our members with a percentage discount on their goods and or services. The amazing difference is that they are looking to donate the same percentage again in the form of a cash donation to Bike Tours for the Wounded. If you are able to help, in particular they are looking for riders to take part in the USA tours in May, or are interested in any of our other tours or simply wish to become a supporter, please visit: bctl.co.uk or email us at info@bctl.co.uk Thank you. Your support will make a big difference.
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CaDAM’s AGM: 14th March ‘17 March Club Night saw the annual AGM of the group. As is legally required, please find published here, the
accounts for the group for the past year, 1st January 2016 – 31st December 2016 As is mentioned on previous pages of this and the last magazine, the CaDAM Committee needs your
Financial Statement for the year ended 31st December 2016 Receipts & Payments Account
2016 2015 Receipts £ £ £ £ Membership Fees 1897.50 2096.50 Club Night Income 175.98 274.51 Clothing – 299.01 2073.48 2670.02 Expenses Bills 568.11 560.46 Events 145.68 241.44 Marketing 171.21 – Miscellaneous 110.49 451.72 Training Costs 398.85 44.32 Insurance 110.00 – 1504.34 1297.94 Surplus Receipts (Expenses) 569.14 1372.08 Cash Fund brought forward 3390.00 2017.92 Cash Fund carried forward 3959.14 3390.00
Fixed Asetts Banners & frames Display tent, 6 x tables & chairs Display boxes Dyno Labeller Laminator Display flag & banner Small display pop-up gazebo CaDAM reflective bibs Current Assets Cash at Bank
Statement of Assets and Liabilities 2016 2015 £ £ 123.60 123.60 70.00 70.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 70.00 70.00 18.00 18.00 123.20 97.26 424.80 398.86 3959.14 3390.00 4383.94 3788.86
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will be pleased to give you more information. Alternatively, all members are welcome to attend the Committee meetings; please see the calendar for the dates. Thank you in anticipation, we look forward to welcoming you along!
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Ride Chris L. 2
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Ride DK
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1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
TRAINING
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THEORY
Following the wish of many members to know the full schedule for CaDAM (and subject to occasional
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OBS MEETING
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TRAINING
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TRAINING
Ride Doug P
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Ride David B
December
RIDE
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TRAINING
2
November
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MG’s Luxemburg Trip 8-11th
COMMITTEE MEETING
October
Ride Darren K
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TRAINING 1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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Ride Graham S
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Group Night
August
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September
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MG’s Breacon Trip 7-10th
GS’s Ypres Trip 4-6th
GROUP NIGHT
10
15
TRAINING
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14
TRAINING
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Ride Peter M
2
COMMITTEE MEETING
2
Ride RON P
July
1
10
MG’s Dieppe Trip 12-15th
5
Ride Chris L.
June
1
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TRAINING
4
Th 12
1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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14
TRAINING
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Group Night
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TRAINING
2
Ride Mick G 4
1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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12
TRAINING
Ride Tony M.
March April
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May
1
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TRAINING
February
Ride Mark A. 5
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We 11
1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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Tu 10
1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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Mo 9
Group Night
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Su 8
Group Night
3
Sa 7
Group Night
2
Fr 6
Group Night
1
Th 5
Group Night
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We 4
Group Night
3
Tu 3
Group Night
2
Mo 2
COMMITTEE MEET
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Group Night
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Su 1
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Group Night
Sa
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CaDAM Xmas Meal
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COMMITTEE MEETING
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COMMITTEE MEETING
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TRAINING
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FULL MEMBER DAY
changes), here is the provisional calendar for some of the notable calendar dates. Please remember to
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COMMITTEE MEETING
OBSERVER MEETING
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FULL MEMBER DAY TBC
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1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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25
OBSERVER MEETING
24
Sa 21
OBSERVER MEETING
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TRAINING
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TRAINING
Fr 20
TRAINING
Th 19
TRAINING
We 18
COMMITTEE MEETING
TRAINING
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TRAINING
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DUNTON SLOW RIDING DAY
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TRAINING
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TRAINING
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TRAINING
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TRAINING
Tu 17
CaDAM Spring Meal
1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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1800Hrs EVENING RIDE GS
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Theory DK.
Theory Mark A.
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Theory Phil D.
18 16
Theory Mick G.
15
Theory Peter M.
14 18
Theory Tony M
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Theory Darren K
16 21 20
Theory Ron P.
Ride Chris L.
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Theory Doug P.
Ride Graham S
19 16
Theory David B
Ride Peter M.
15 20
Theory Mark A.
Ride Chris L
14 19
Mo 16
TRAINING
Theory DK
Ride Doug P.
18 19
COMMITTEE MEETING
Ride Phil D.
17 Su 15
COMMITTEE MEETING
Ride Tony M.
18
Ride to CaDAM BBQ?
17
Ride Mark A.
Sa 14
Ride Mick G.
Fr 13
Ride DK
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How to Find Us Club Nights The Sports Pavilion, Chelmsford Police HQ, St. Margaret’s Road. 19:30 for 20:00 start unless otherwise stated. Please refer to CaDAM events listing for dates. Apologies, but we will need to collect £1.00 from each member present on club nights to cover the cost of hiring the room. Guest speakers and the occasional raffle are being planned for some of the meetings. For more details or suggestions for future events, please contact a member of the committee. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you soon.
Your Club Needs You! If you have any suggestions that you feel may benefit the club and its members, then we would love to hear from you. That might include suggestions (or niggles) about training, club nights, ride-outs or this magazine. We are a team of volunteers and it is important to us that the club operates to benefit all members. If you have any suggestions please don’t hesitate to contact one of the committee at a club night, on a ride out or via the emails listed inside. Better still, why not come along to a Committee Meeting and get involved. With your help we can make riding safer and fun.
CaDAM Christmas 2016