RUST magazine: RUST#30

circuit de pyrénées
experience, was a very competent enduro rider. Back then all the
two-day national championship enduros featured teams from both the
armed forces and police.
“the Metropolitan Police contacted me because their team
performance was, frankly, pretty pathetic. i was asked to give them a
bit of training. it felt a bit odd telling a load of coppers what to do.
it felt even stranger when i was co-opted into the team for that year,
and had to stand on a box for the official team photograph.”
taking stock of the first 30km we concluded that, apart from the
architecture, the morning rush hour could’ve been Croydon with extra
garlic and better air quality. With the benefit of hindsight Charlie
pointed out that the roads were better surfaced, but there was a lot
more traffic and the biggest difference of all was that there were no
police at every junction, stopping the traffic and waiving you through.
Actually, doing even one time-check clean would be virtually
impossible. But we would see how things panned out.