12-12-11, 11:00 AM
(08-12-11, 02:04 PM)pitternator link Wrote: and yes they truly believed/ boasted that on their old pans they could "outride any blade" ...that is after pulling their paunches aside so they could get flat on the tank to coax another mph from their bikes. I wont print what I thought of them but it rhymes with bankers ... :lol
Of course its all changed since then..... :z
It's about time the IAM was disbanded I think, this organisation has had a disastrous and embarrasing image for a couple of decades now and it's simply not able to change peoples perception of it. This is very bad for motorcycling.
Regularly, on all the forums I've frequented over the years a significant number of people have voiced dislike of the IAM and ironically of course, some of these same people would benefit from advanced training, but they don't go for it -because they don't like the IAM's image and image is important in motorcycling whether the beardy IAM people think so or not. No effort has been made to change this image as far as I can see and this smacks of an even deeper arrogance within the organisation.
If the IAM is putting off people getting advanced training it's time for the organisation to go, it's self defeating. The instructors, many of whom are no doubt valuable teachers could work for similar less odious organisations and/or get behind the launch of a new one.
Who is to blame? I would say a lot of it is to do with the high degree of arrogance that exuded from many of the IAM observers in the early years. Why they behaved like this I don't know, but I hope they realise what an awful legacy they propogated and what damage they did to rider training.