East Yorkshire Advanced Riders & Drivers

Glorious Mid-Summer. The country getting back to some more normailty. E-YARD (RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders East Yorkshire) had a great month, starting off with Mike and Paul representing the club at Humberside Police BikeSafe workshop. E-YARD' contribution was appreciated by the BikeSafe team with Howard Fordham from the BikeSafe commenting "Please pass on my thanks to Mike and Paul for their efforts (yesterday), It was a good day and all the candidates seemed to enjoy t

World of BMW attended Marshalls Motorrad as part of a national promotion of BMW new range of motorcycles. The premise was that the 'road-show' attended with 20 demonstration machines for riders to take out and ride under escort with their own team. Having been invited to attend, E-YARD (RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders East Yorkshire), put together a small team to propmote RoSPA and E-YARD, to educate attendees and possibly recruit new members to RoSPA and E-YARD. With 55 ri

Thursday Night Trundle - Schools Out For Summer!! 10 gathered at Beverley for the 1745 meet. Hoodie was lead with the other examiner John S playing back marker as the gang used the drop off system. Helmsley was the destination and there was 90 minutes to get to Deep Blue for a Fish Supper! Taking the B1248 to Wetang, then on to Malton, through Hovingham and on to the big H everyone was starving on arrival! New member Lee Evans joined the ride out saying he had heard E-YARD we

Tra, la, la - la,, la, la lah.... Thinking of renaming the Coddiwomples name to E-YARD Ice Cream Tours! Saturday 14 July was something of a scorcher, with record temperatures being recorded at over 30º in the UK. Meeting at 0930 at Beverley, the intrepid, Fantastic Four, Dave Scott, leading, joined by Ivan Smy, Julian Burton and Rod McAndrew, set out to Sutton Bank and the across to Rosedale. Experiencing some of the alpinesque roads before encountering the circuit of Dalby

And Great Brittan does it again! No, not early news from the Tokyo Olympics, but our very own Mr Bittan, Andy, followed up his excellent car pass last month with a double passing his bike re-test with the highest grade. Andy joined E-YARD (RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders East Yorkshire) way back in 2017, when the group was just rising from the ashes of the old one. Andy actually did his car test as a 'practice run' for his real advanced test with the other organisation!!! H

Humberside Police BikeSafe continued it's 2021 proramme, holding the July event on 'Murican Independence day, 4th July. Representing RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders East Yorkshire (E-YARD) were Paul Morton and Mike Allen. Both our representatives enjoyed their day and got great feedback from the BikeSafe team: "Please pass on my thanks to Mike and Paul for their efforts yesterday, it was a good day and all the candidates seemed to enjoy their day with us. Hopefully they wil

After a week of glorious sunshine, England beating Germany, an 18 year old A level student only packing enough clothes for one night in London and then getting through the first round at Wimbledon, the weather forecast for the first Coddiwomple was - Yep! RAIN!!! Probably why only 4 stalwarts turned up at Beverley (oh, yeah, and BikeSafe was also on - see the other blog!) Dave Scott planned the route and led, with Pippa, Andy J and Ivan making up the Fantastic Four. South of

To finish off the month of June, one which had seen some sense of normality coming back to E-YARD (RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders East Yorkshire) and its operating procedures, and also seen a plethora of test and re-test results, it was the Chair' turn! Our lock-down hursuit Chair, Mark Kelk, undertook his tri-annual RoSPA motorcycle retest. In atrocious conditions, John Summerfield tested Mark, expressing an opinion that they would be better doing it on Water-Bikes! Mark