Welcome to Cleveland Advanced Motorcyclists

Cleveland Advanced Motorcyclists is one of the longest established iAM motorcycle groups in the country.  We are a group run by Bikers for Bikers and proud of our achievements, since we started we have been providing training and assistance to hundreds of motorcyclists throughout the North East of England helping them to pass the Institute of Advanced  Motorists Motorcycle Test.

We offer a one-to-one based coaching, under the umbrella of the iAM Roadsmart Advanced Rider Course initiative, to raise the skills of associates to a level that will enable you to pass the iAM Test.  The iAM test is the only test recognised by all motorcycle insurance. 

To join CAM the cost for the course thought iAM is £175 which includes your test fee, course book and all iAM training materials needed. As we enjoy charitable status, now could not be a better time to join us. CAM is offering a free assessment ride before you consider joining, paying the £15 observer expenses and £50 after completing the course through us. 

About our Training

Our Training is run by members who all have passed the iAM Advanced Test and here to promote the advanced riding techniques detailed by iAM.

When you first join CAM you will become an Associate and will be allocated to one of our highly trained Observer team members. All your training is on a one-to-one basis and will be delivered in a style suited to you. Each ride you will be required to use your own bike and will consist of a briefing and a discussion and then agreed what will be covered on the ride. Rides are typically set to about 1 or 2 hours, with frequent breaks for observational reviews. The Observer will give you as much help and encouragement as possible and at the end of each ride they will update your course book. As with any training it requires your commitment and between rides you will be encouraged to practice and study some of the course material. It may help your development to obtain further reading material including ‘Advanced Rider Course’ handbook, ‘Motorcycling Roadcaraft: The Police Rider’s handbook to better Motorcycling’, and of course the updated copy of the Highway code.

Meet our Chief Observer

Mac Watson.

National Observer and
Chief Observer for our Group. 

Bought my first bike
a Triumph Tiger Cub back in 1964 and had a number of old and mainly clapped out
bikes after that, none of which cost more than a tenner (a fair bit of money in
those days), like a lot of other people bikes were sidelined when I bought my
first car a few years later.  

My interest in bikes
was re kindled in the late 80’s and I took my advanced riding test in 1993.

Over the next ten
years I became a local observer, then a senior observer, I also held various
roles on the committee during that time including the chair. 

In 2003 I stopped
riding to pursue other interests but came back to biking in 2014 and rejoined
CAM, currently I ride a BMW R1200RT.

Within CAM including
myself we have five observers plus one under training, geographically we all
reside in North Yorkshire, Teesside and South Durham which allows us to service
any applicants in and around the Cleveland and North Yorks area. 

We are also fortunate
in having some observers who are retired

which allows  us
to carry out training at any time during weekdays and weekends, this also
ensure that new associates can start their training without having to wait too
long to be allocated an observer.

One of our Observer members

Des Davies
 
Began riding at 17 on a Honda CB250 and since had a succession of bikes.

Always had a passion for V4s, Twin’s and more lately Boxer twins. I currently ride a BMW R1200R.

Joined CAM in 2008 in order to develop better self awareness . Enjoyed the course and the fortnightly social rides.
Began Observer training in 2012 and thanks to excellent support tutoring from CAM hierarchy, gained the IMI Training qualification.

Two fold reason for continuing –
1 – Satisfaction of reaching the point in training where the associate moves to riding within the ‘Bubble’ and becomes a proactive rather than reactive rider.

2 – Helps to maintain my own riding standards.

Contact Details

You can contact CAM by Email: cambikers.iam@outlook.com

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