Fall off . . . in enthusiasm
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BRIG DENNIS RENDELL, who has been quite a lad in his time, has retired as head of the RAC/ACU national training scheme for motorcyclists. During a sparkling 38-year military career he trained the army's motorcyclists, but he didn't do a lot for me.
During the 1939-45 war all officers below the rank of brigadier were supposed to become competent motorcycle riders and general officers, accustomed to leading from the rear, had to be competent pillio passengers.
, I looked forward to my training, which consisted only c a couple of laps of a field in second gear on a 16H Norton. I was then adjudged competent and later set up a new record to falling off. Having shot over the handlebars six times in an afternoon — the last time in front of one of my Morris sixwheeled gun tractors — I discovered that the front wheel was locked solid with mud, snow and ice.
Brigadier, where were you in my hour of need?