Meet the team

Chairman - Richard Clauson

I've been riding motorcycles for over 40 years, ever since getting fed up being stuck in traffic driving the 2 or so miles across a city to work each day, and realising riding a bike was quicker. After doing my basic training with the local RAC/ACU Scheme I became an Instructor, and then at the end of the 1970s took my IAM test to help with that instructing. In the early 1980s a fellow RAC/ACU Instructor, a local Police Sargent, and I started the Essex Advanced Motorcyclists Group (EAMG) to capture the post-test bikers and guide them through the IAM test. I've been supporting advanced training ever since. After several job changes I ended up in Berkshire, and joined the Thames Vale Advanced Motorcyclists (TVAM) IAM group in the late 1990s. There I helped with the Events Team and the organising of the social side of the group/club, including being the webmaster for a few years. When I moved to Derbyshire from Berkshire in 2018 I looked for the local IAM motorcycle group, and on finding Derbyshire Advanced Motorcyclists (DAM) I joined as an ordinary member. In mid-2020 I became Acting Chair. I've also been a Blood Biker with Derbyshire Blood Bikes (DBB) for a couple of year, and before that was 5 years with SERV OBN (Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers, Oxon, Bucks, Berks, & N'hants).