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I will be there thumb.

If this is like the old bikesafe days where you get a free observed rospa ride, ill try to make this meeting, just make sure the following rider is a copper who can asses your ride, as its always good to know you are riding at a good standard and not picking up any bad habbits. instead of a spotty faced iam rider who will fumble through your report and teach you jack shit.

No Mark its a ride out to RAF Cosford ,to raise money for the Air Ambulance and others
I did it this year ,its a good day out ,

I've registered my vespa for main ride

Yep sounds good to me.im up for it.

I have just registered, hope to see more of the ugly bunch there next year , I think there was 3 of use this year

Gives you an idea of Bike fest 14 this is from last year plus you can go around the Cosford air museum as thats all open as well and its free just pat donation to do mass ride in from Shrewsbury but thats optional


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Bit harsh on the IAM there I thought. My experience was completely different. When I came back onto two wheels, after a couple of rides out with Clive and Dave, I realised I was certainly not up to a good standard so I did the IAM advanced course. It has without doubt kept me alive. Simple as that. But, and I think this is important, for accuracy the group I rode with had a very good attitude to cracking on. Anticipation and being smooth kept your speed up. Changed my riding style for the much, much better. I suppose it depends on the observer you get, and if you can take advice.

Gerard C wrote:Bit harsh on the IAM there I thought. My experience was completely different. When I came back onto two wheels, after a couple of rides out with Clive and Dave, I realised I was certainly not up to a good standard so I did the IAM advanced course. It has without doubt kept me alive. Simple as that. But, and I think this is important, for accuracy the group I rode with had a very good attitude to cracking on. Anticipation and being smooth kept your speed up. Changed my riding style for the much, much better. I suppose it depends on the observer you get, and if you can take advice.

Any riding knoledge is valuable Gerard, and you will definatly learn from the IAM, but Rospa is a far more involved course, for example your not advised to put in for your test until the observer thinks your good and ready how ever long it takes, the test isnt a simple pass/fail, its graded. The Rospa diploma is the highest civillian advanced motorcycle award you cam get.
A police observed ride will teach you so much , they really are the ambassadors of the road,(imo).