Young People Need Motorcycles In a time when life is getting more expensive, it is a little surprising that motorcycle sales have declined. When you chat with young people about motorcycles, you get all sorts of reasons why they haven’t tried riding. Most haven’t even sat on one. It’s time
Editorial What a brilliant Spring Breakfast Meet! Thank you to all those SAM members who made it such a great success. The AGM saw a very humble Editor receive an engraved tankard for services to SAM. Thank you to everyone, I’m very grateful for the recognition and will continue to
Despite overcast skies, rain and cold, SAM members made the Spring Breakfast Meet a great success. Thank you for all your continued support as we looked forward to making 2024 our best year yet! Ride safe. It’s just a bit grey! Roy gets everyone organised… let’s start with coffee &
Editorial Sometimes, even the most well respected motorcycling commentators can say things that are just plain idiocy. This week it’s the turn of Ryan Kluftinger, fortnine on YouTube. In a well-crafted video he says that motorcyclists’ body armour, shoulder, elbow, hip and knee pads, are not effective at their job.
Britian’s pothole pandemic is leaving drivers tearing out their hair and the state of the road network is laid bare by the publication of the AIA’s annual Alarm report earlier this month. It found that less than half (47%) of local road miles were rated as being in good condition, with 36%
It’s a mess! The current situation of allowing Local Authorities to determine whether motorcycles should be allowed in bus lanes seems to be a full scale policy failure. Following the first road safety trials in 1994, when implementing the policy, it was assumed that Local Authorities were in the best
Editorial The sun brought everyone out at last Saturday’s Meet. Although it was a cool start, the forecast rain failed to materialise and all riders looked forward to a great day’s riding. There was the usual chat and we welcomed a couple of new Associates beginning their journey to becoming
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