On Sunday we turned up at NAM to meet up with Mikey and his GS Adventure. He was glum about how his training is going. It's the same problem you get with football referees he's finding. Same rules but their application varies. I found the same thing during my training. Anyway he went off with his observer and Ethel tagged along behind a trainee, his observer and another bloke just out for a ride. Straightaway I noticed how much I have toned down my riding since the NAM days. Charging into blind country bends is now out as we always make up speed everywhere else. Also watching yet more people on the centre line on blind bends in town made me back off to stay out of the way of body parts. Of course all this could be the doing of the trainee, oops associate, but no way were we going where he went. He did enjoy a long debrief at the end of the ride so maybe it was him. The great news is that despite this it is great to ride with NAM/IAM riders as we all ride the same quick way and never do anything stupid, unlike every other group I have ever ridden with.
But for us I think it has had its time - it is a school and unless you are training you start to wonder what am I doing here ?
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