IAM Insight Feb 2015

Allan Jefferies Motorcycles in Shipley have very kindly offered the club a corner of their showroom this coming Saturday to promote HAB and IAM Skills for Life.

The event is Jefferies Open Day where they’ll be showing the full 2015 range of BMW’s. Even if you’re not a BMW rider the Open Day is always worth a trip to Shipley for a look around and to meet other bikers.

A number of HAB Observers have already agreed to ‘man the stand’ for a period during the day and we encourage all members to come along and support the club (unfortunately I’m going to miss it as I’ll still be away!).

Thanks, David.

An early reminder to make sure you have next month’s club meeting on your calendar!

We’re very lucky to have the IAM’s Director of Standards Mark Lewis joining us to talk about future plans for riding and driving standards and for the IAM and advanced driving in general.

Don’t miss! – Bilton Cricket Club, 7.30pm Monday February 9th.

Thanks to Barry Ring for these interesting web links. Well worth a look, particularly the RealRider Learning Centre videos:

http://www.realrider.com/e-learning-centre/?utm_source=REALRIDER%C2%AE+Community+Mailing&utm_campaign=97e05b1dfa-THINK_e_learning1_15_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_07c3280142-97e05b1dfa-65056525

http://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/

If you’re looking for motorcycle trips away that are a little bit different you could do a lot worse than looking at these. Apart from accommodation various activities are offered including intensive courses at the Nurburgring, Trackdays at Spa Francorchamps, Best Biking Roads in the Ardennes region etc.

www.aeaventures.com

Thanks to Piers Kurrein from the BMW Club for this information

Those of you who were at the monthly HAB meeting on 12 January will remember the very interesting and informative talk on clothing care given by Guy Mainwaring, Managing Director of Held UK.

You can get the clothing care information online by visiting Held’s blog using the link below. To get to the care instructions, load the page then enter “care” in the search field.

http://heldbikegear.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2015-01-01T00:00:00Z&updated-max=2016-01-01T00:00:00Z&max-results=1

The Held Rider Equipment Facebook page is at:

https://www.facebook.com/HeldRiderEquipment?ref=hl

Guy’s also given me these other interesting bike related links which you might like to look at:

www.MotorBikeTV.tv  
www.MotorBikeRiderMagazine.co.uk
www.MotorBikeRider.eu 
 

Only a couple of months to go and we’ll be into the ride out season again! The pdf below gives you all ride out dates for your diary.

As you will see, we still need leaders for the months of May, June, July and August. Why not give it a go and treat everyone to your favourite route? It would be good to have some new people volunteering!

If you’re interested, please send an email to Andrew Pratt, the Ride Out co-ordinator giving an outline of the route and your preferred date/s.
Andrew’s address is:
andrewpratt12@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks!
HAB Ride Out Dates 2015

If you’re booked for the dinner at Luigis on Saturday, please don’t forget to bring your prize for the raffle.
All proceeds go to support Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Thanks!

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