I was into my forties when I came to biking, not a symptom of the male menopause but being one of life's good guys and having only one car at the time, I thought my wife's need was greater than mine. Until I passed my test, I commuted to Oxford on a little red Yamaha RXS100 then moved up to a nippy, belt-driven Kawasaki GPZ305. After a gap of a dozen years, I returned to biking with a CBF600 in 2005. The Honda was going to see me through to my dotage but the example of our aged yet youthful chairman made me realise that I probably had many more years biking ahead of me than I originally anticipated and I was tempted by a gleaming blue Suzuki GSX1250FA. 

My choice of bikes probably tells you quite a lot about my biking style, let's face it, I'm never voluntarily going to have my knee within a yard of the tarmac. On the other hand I regularly complete the National Rally so I'm not  totally useless which is solely due to the time and energy CWAM have spent in trying to make me a better motorcyclist and shepherding me on ride outs.  

I look after the website simply because in a moment of overenthusiastic folly I volunteered. That said, I do try to make it as interesting as possible but I can only achieve this if you send me your news, views and photographs. If you have any comments about the website or articles to share please send them to webadmin@cwam.org.uk