Cambridge Advanced Motorcyclists

Members' Evening with Ultimate Hearing
2026-03-03 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Over Community Centre, The Doles, Over, Cambridgeshire, CB24 5NY
We’re delighted to be welcoming back George from Ultimate Hearing Protection Systems to our first Members Evening of 2026. George will be talking to us about the Ultimate’s range of custom-made moulded earplugs, designed to be worn comfortably under a motorcycle helmet for long periods. The company was founded in 2001 by Dave Marshall, a biker looking to create the highest quality hearing protection system for motorcyclists. Ultimate’s CE marked products are made from anti-microbial medical grade silicone, and their client list includes police forces, Formula 1 racing teams and fire & ambulance services

Bike Maintenance with Paul Nobbs Postponed
2026-03-07 13:00 - 14:30 | Paul Nobbs Motorcycles, 2 Ely Road, Sutton, Ely, CB6 2QD
This event is now postponed at a later date

Sunday ride
2026-03-15 09:30 - 13:30 | To be confirmed
This ride will be led by Tim Smith and tail ended by Roger Taylor

We meet at Tesco Ely car park by 9.20am latest for a 9.30am departure.
From there we’ll wind our way east through Mildenhall, Gt. Barton, Ixworth and Norton. Joining the A14 for one junction to our breakfast stop at The Hungry Stag @ Haughley, where a table has been reserved for us for 10:45am.
After breakfast, our return journey takes us south toward Sudbury, then westward, before we meander our way up the back roads to Newmarket and a short blast back up to Ely Tesco to finish.
The ride is open to full Members and Associates (with the approval of your Observer) and will be limited to a total of 8 participants, (plus the Ride Leader & Tail Ender).
Total distance is around 90 miles with just over a 1-hour outward journey and about 1 hour 45 minutes on the return leg.
Please arrive at Tesco Ely no later than 09.20 for the mandatory pre-ride briefing, ensuring your bike is fully fuelled and ready to go.

Start: Tesco Superstore, Angel Drove, Ely. CB7 4DJ – W3W: ///dispenser.assure.webcams
Breakfast: The Hungry Stag Café, J47a, A14E. IP30 9FX. – W3W: ///into.gobbling.smudges
End: Tesco Superstore, Angel Drove, Ely. CB7 4DJ – W3W: ///dispenser.assure.webcams

Midweek ride
2026-03-18 09:30 - 13:30 | Cambridgeshire
This ride will be led by Paul Norman and tail ended by (TBD)
Further details to follow

Midweek ride to Bardwell
2026-03-20 09:30 - 13:30 | CB25 0AA, Type 2 Detectives, Ness Road, Burwell, CB25 0AA, United Kingdom
Join Carl Stannett as he leads his first ride to Bardwell on Friday 20th March. Jennifer will be Tail Ender.
We start from a new point – Type 2 Detectives in Burwell, a new café aimed squarely at petrol heads. There is an Asda petrol station opposite.
Leaving via Fordham, we’ll head south through Moulton towards Stradishall where we’ll pick up the A143 to Bury, skirt round the city and then on to Bardwell.
Breakfast is at The Grumpy Goat
After breakfast, we’ll head back towards Thetford and down through the King’s Forest, take a scenic route over to Risby, through Newmarket and end at Stow Cum Quy.
Please arrive at Type 2 Detectives by 09:20 for the mandatory pre-ride briefing, ensuring that your bike is suitably fuelled.

Start Type 2 Detectives, Berkely Yard, Ness Road, Burwell. CB25 0AA
https://what3words.com/braked.elevates.snores
Breakfast The Grumpy Goat Bardwell IP31 1AB
https://what3words.com/only.skim.harder
End Layby in Stow cum Quy
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Riders Limited to 12 – members only.
Distance Approx 82 miles

" When Grandad takes Gran for a ride" A talk by John Gibson
2026-03-31 19:30 - 21:30 | Over Community Centre, The Doles, Over, Cambridgeshire, CB24 5NY
John’s thirst for motorcycle touring started when he joined CAM. Married for 46 years, he and his wife Ann astounded their children and friends when they announced their plan to ride across the USA on a motorcycle.

Following months of planning, their trip begins in Los Angeles where they head North along the Pacific Highway to San Francisco on the way meeting zebras, elephant seals and sighting distant whale spouts. In San Francisco they have a joyous reunion with friends before they pick up a Harley Davidson motorcycle for the 3,500-mile trip to Washington DC. Their route takes them through Yosemite, Death Valley, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Indian Reservations, Gallup, Route 66 to St Louis and then Washington DC. They avoid a forest fire and a mountain pass blizzard but ride into a Mid-West thunderstorm and dense mountain fog. With wit they share the tales of the people they met on route including an introduction to the American gun culture and how the early morning sun almost spelt disaster.”

Committee Meeting
2026-04-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-06-10 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-07-22 19:30 - 21:30 | St John’s College School, 73 Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AB, United Kingdom
Details of the members who sit on the Committee can be viewed here
Photo by Pawel Chu on Unsplash
Please email Roger Taylor (secretary@cambsiam.org.uk)
if there is a matter which you would like to bring to the attention of Committee Members

Sunday ride
2026-04-12 09:30 - 13:30 | Cambridgeshire
This ride will be led by John Hawkins and tail ended by Robert Silver
Further details to follow

Midweek ride
2026-04-17 09:30 - 13:30, 2026-06-24 09:30 - 13:30 | Cambridgeshire
This ride will be led by Martyn Fordham and tail ended by (TBC)
Further details to follow

the Metropolitan Police Special Escort Group
2026-04-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Over Community Centre, The Doles, Over, Cambridgeshire, CB24 5NY
A talk by Simon Burgin. details to follow

Sunday ride
2026-04-26 09:30 - 13:30 | BP Cambridge (Newmarket Road), Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8AA
This ride will be led by Keith Curtis and tail ended by Peter Grant

Starting and finishing at the BP Garage on Newmarket Road, CB5 8AA
W3W: game.flaunting.fence
Bypassing the Wilbrahams we make our way towards the outskirts of Haverhill via Six Mile Botton and West Wratting. Bypassing Haverhill we turn right towards and through Steeple Bumpstead before touching the edge of Finchingfield and continuing our cross-country route to The Hub on the outskirts of Chelmsford.
After breakfast we return via a generally more westerly route, but still on similar roads to the ones used on the way out and Finchingfield is again on the route.Turning left in the centre of Finchingfield (towardsThe Sampfords) we will make our way across country back to our starting point via Hempstead, Helions Bumpstead Linton and Balsham.

Ride to the Lincolnshire Wolds
2026-04-29 09:30 - 18:00 | Cambridgeshire
This mid-week ride will be led by Ian Dunckley.

We will start from the Starbucks next to theA10 BP fuel station (///ballparks.displays.seriously) and end in the car park at Ely leisure village just off the A10 (///diplomats.showcase.fairy). This trip takes us North through the fen roads and the A17, to the A and B roads around and through the Wolds of Lincolnshire with more curves than I can count and roads with very few potholes. There are few 20mph zones and no motorway or dual carriageway sections, roads across the fens tend to be straight but this is not the case once beyond Coningsby where the roads become fluid curving rural roads with rises and dips in the Wolds. You will see beautiful countryside and market towns with a feel of old England.
We also get some experience of many RAF bases from WWII, a fabulous early brunch at Woodhall Spa and/or a great hot or cold pie at Bardney, then refuel at Market Raisen. Form here if time and energy levels permit we can ride to Caistor, or go direct across to Louth for mid afternoon tea, then a nice tour south through the East side of the Wolds to Horncastle or to the Aviation heritage centre at East Kirby for a final rest and tea before heading back to Ely in the reverse of the outward route, it always looks different in reverse.
The route takes in Welney, Upwell, Outwell, Wisbech, Long Sutton, Coningsby, Bardney, Wragby, Market Raisen, Caistor, Louth, Alford, Horncastle.
We will stop at the Tea House in the Woods at Woodhall Spa at around 1130 which I will try and keep open for breakfast, Assuming that you can get a splendid breakfast or something more intricate from the lunch menu.
The link is here

Sunday ride
2026-05-03 09:30 - 13:30 | BP Cambridge (Newmarket Road), Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8AA
This ride will be led by Patrick Ryan and tail ended by Barry Dickinson
DESTINATION – JetLounge@99, High Street Hadleigh, IP7 5EJ – what3words
END POINT – Layby on A1303 near A14 J35 roundabout – what3words
DURATION – 4 hours
DISTANCE – 87 miles
Description:
Our ride passes through some much-loved Suffolk’s towns including Cavendish, Clare, Lavenham & Newmarket – and with no fewer than 246 listed buildings, the town of Hadleigh has plenty of charm of its own. In keeping with the slightly out-of-the-way destination, both our outward & return journeys make use of Suffolk’s less-travelled byways
JetLounge@99 have asked us to provide pre-orders – please consult the brunch menu and state your choices when booking your ticket(s)
Restrictions:
This ride is restricted to 12 people, including the ride leader, tail-ender & pillions
Members, Associates* & pillions all welcome
*As always, Associates must have been cleared to join group-rides by their Observer

Observer Task Force
2026-05-09 10:00 - 13:00 | Over Community Centre, The Doles, Over, Cambridgeshire, CB24 5NY
Details to follow

All day ride CANCELLED
2026-05-13 09:30 - 17:30 | Cambridgeshire
This ride will be led by Martyn Fordham and tail ended by (TBC)
this ride is now cancelled

Sunday ride
2026-05-17 09:30 - 13:30 | Cambridgeshire
This ride will be led by Peter Grant and tail ended by John Hawkins
Further details to follow.

Evening ride CANCELLED
2026-06-03 17:30 - 21:30 | Cambridgeshire
This ride is now cancelled

Sunday ride
2026-06-07 09:30 - 13:30 | Cambridgeshire
This ride will be led by Tim Smith and tail ended by Steve Rowdon
Further details to follow

Meldreth Festival of Motorcycles
2026-06-17 05:00 - 22:00 | Eternit Social Club Meldreth, Whaddon Rd,, Meldreth, SG8 5RL
CAM will attend this event. More details to follow nearer the time

Meldreth Festival of Motorcycles
2026-06-17 17:00 - 22:00 | Eternit Social Club Meldreth, Whaddon Rd,, Meldreth, SG8 5RL

Sunday ride
2026-06-21 09:30 - 13:30 | Cambridgeshire
This ride will be led by Ian Dunckley and tail ended by Graham Maile
Further details to follow

Sunday ride
2026-07-05 09:30 - 13:30 | Brampton Hut Services, A1/A14, Huntingdon, PE28 4NQ, United Kingdom
This ride will be led by Dave Freeman and tail ended by Mark Fox
This ride is now bookable by Members on Ticket Tailor
DESTINATION – The Buttery, Manor House Farm, 10 Addington Rd, Woodford, Kettering NN14 4ES
DISTANCE – Approximately 73 miles
Description:
The ride starts and ends at Brampton services on the A1. We begin with a short ride up the A1 before turning off at Alconbury Weston. Once on the smaller roads we travel though the villages of Hammerton, Winwick, Great Gidding and into Northamptonshire via Warmington. We pass through Fotheringhay, where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned and later executed, and Glapthorn before taking on the somewhat legendary Benefield Bends. After tacking these amazing bends, we head to Brigstock and Slipton, before arriving at our destination of the Buttery at Woodford.
There is no requirement to order food in advance, but if you like to view the menu it can be found here… https://irp.cdn-website.com/5cdca1c9/files/uploaded/The+Buttery+-+Sunday+Menu.pdf
Our return journey sees us heading to Great Addington and Ringstead, with a ride around the outskirt of Raunds on the B663. We then head into Bedfordshire passing through Chelveston, Caldecott, Newton Bromswold, Yelden, Riseley and Staughton Green. Shortly after passing through these lovely villages, we will go past our Chief Observers favourite pub stop of ‘The Wheatsheaf’ at Perry. Circling around Grafham Water we head towards Brampton on some single-track roads ready for a short blast down the A14 and back to Brampton Services.
Restrictions:
This ride is restricted to 10 people, including the Ride Leader, Tail Ender and Pillions
Full members only
Ride Brief:
Please arrive on time 9.15am for the ride brief, as information given could be specific to this ride.
Please be aware that as you enter Brampton Services there is a large deep rut in the middle of the road. One can only hope it will be repaired very soon.

Evening Ride & Social Evening
2026-07-08 17:00 - 19:30 | Cambridge Services (A14, Junction 24), CB23 4WU, United Kingdom
This ride will be led by Ian Dunckley and tail-ended by Patrick Ryan. limited to 10 riders, Associates welcome
DESTINATION – The Abbots Elm public house, Abbotts Ripton, PE28 2PD
END TIME – 1900

DISTANCE – 57 miles

Description:

This is an early evening ride from A14 services around Huntingdon to finish for a social evening at the Elm public House for some food and refreshment, on a no football evening, in Abbots Ripton.
Start from A14 services and head out towards Boxworth , and then towards Bedfordshire and back up to North of Alconbury.
the ride ends at the Elm, Abbots Ripton where any CAM Members are welcome to can join the riders after 7pm for a catch up

All-day ride to Hunstanton
2026-07-15 08:45 - 17:00 | Tesco Milton, CB24 6AY, United Kingdom
This ride is led by Keith Tremeer and tail-ended by Barry D.
Our start point will be the carpark at Tesco, Milton, from where we’ll head NE through Swaffham Prior, Burwell and Fordham, before turning north through Isleham and Prickwillow (your bike’s suspension will get a good workout on the road between Isleham and Prickwillow), then to Downham Market, where, after about an hour on the road, we’ll make a brief (30-45 minutes) stop at the Costa Coffee for some refreshments. Then it’ll be on to Swaffham, Castle Acre, Great Massingham and Docking, before joining the main A149 into Hunstanton, arriving there about an hour after leaving our refreshment stop.
There are several fish & chip restaurants within easy walking distance from the seafront, and depending on the weather, we can choose to have take-aways and gather on the grass area near the bandstand to eat. Alternatively, for those that prefer the comfort of air-conditioned indoor dining, a good choice would be Henry’s (my personal favourite – I receive no commission for that indication!!) There are also numerous ice cream parlours nearby, so we can have a truly indulgent day at the beach. For those who wish to dip a toe (or more) in the sea, please feel free (towels are not provided).
We’ll aim to head back at around 13:30, initially passing through the Sandringham estate, then Narborough and on to Downham Market, where, after an hour on the road, we’ll make our final refreshment stop at the same place as on the way out. Thereafter, the final stretch of our route home will take us through Friday Bridge and March, where we’ll pick up the A141, which will take us all the way to the Riverside carpark in Huntingdon, where the ride will end.
Total distance will be around 160 miles, divided roughly equally between the out and return routes, with a total on-the-road time of just less than 4h30mins. It is estimated that we’ll arrive back in Huntingdon at between 16:30 and 17:00
For those of you for whom the 160 miles will be “pushing it” for your bike’s range, a re-fueling stop is planned just after leaving Hunstanton.
Please arrive at Tesco, Milton carpark (W3W: ///goad.thin.lift) no later than 08:45 with your bike duly fueled, for the pre-ride briefing. Departure time is 09:00.
This ride is open to Members and Associates, and is limited to 12 participants (including ride leader and tailer, and pillions).
Bookings available soon via Ticket Tailor

Sunday ride
2026-07-19 09:30 - 13:30 | BP Cambridge (Newmarket Road), Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8AA
This ride will be led by Patrick Ryan and tail ended by Catherine Ryan

B-roads take us east, through Suffolk and into Norfolk and our breakfast stop at The Grain Kitchen near East Harling. Along the way we pass through Newmarket, West Stow Country Park & Elveden and past the ruins of Roudham Church
The breakfast menu at the Grain Kitchen offers something for all tastes. There won’t be time for a tour once you’ve eaten, but the English Distillery is a few paces away and there will be time for those interested to browse the shop
Once we’re back on the bikes, it’s B-roads again as we pass through Garboldisham and Ixworth before skirting Bury St Edmund. We take the A14 westward for one mile – but then pick up more enjoyable B-roads once more. We retrace our steps through Newmarket then head to Brinkley before ending our ride near Stow cum Quy
This ride is restricted to 12 people, including the ride leader, tail-ender & pillions. Associates welcome.
Bookings available through Ticket Tailor very soon

Sunday ride
2026-08-02 09:00 - 13:00 | BP Cambridge (Newmarket Road), Newmarket Road, Cambridge, CB5 8AA
This ride will be led by Catherine Ryan and tail ended by Robert Silver

Start time (Meet by) – NEW TIME 8.45am
Ride briefing – 8.50am
Depart – 9.00am from BP Newmarket Road Cambridge CB5 8AA
Destination – Cressing Temple Barns, Cressing, Braintree CM77 8PD
A beautiful setting featuring two of the world’s oldest and finest timber-built barns, which date back to the 1200s and were built by the Knights Templar and complemented by a Tudor Walled Garden. There is no charge to visit the site
Meeting up at 8.45am will allow riders time to wander around the Cressing Temple Barns site if they are interested in doing so
Starting from the BP station in Cambridge, we will take the familiar Six Mile Bottom road to Brinkley and on to Great Thurlow before we turn for the A143. We then head to Clare via the winding rural roads. Having crossed Clare, we meander through Belchamp St Paul and Tilbury Juxta Clare to Great Yeldham. We will use A-roads to circle east of Braintree before branching off to the medieval Cressing Temple Barns. Breakfast is at the Tiptree Tea Rooms
The return route takes us on a single-track fest circumnavigating Braintree to join the B1057 to Great Bardfield and Finchingfield where we hang a left towards Great Sampford, Radwinter and Bartlow. We pass through Hadstock before joining the A1037 at Linton. It’s then a short hop to Fourwentways Services where the ride ends
Restrictions
This ride is restricted to 12 including the ride leader, tail-ender and pillions Full Members & Associates welcome
Ride Brief Attendance at the briefing is obligatory – this ride includes single-track roads and other hazards
