October social meeting.

A good turnout at Bowburn for the October social event.

Plugzz (www.plugzz.co.uk/) kindly joined the DAM October meeting at short notice to tell us about the dangers of prolonged exposure to high levels of noise and how we can protect ourselves with some form of hearing protection.

An anatomy lesson to help us understand the mechanics of hearing and hence how hearing loss can occur was then followed by an opportunity for members to ask questions about hearing protection and be fitted for custom molded plugs from Plugzz.

The growing DAM trophy collection

Our Secretary, Bill, has managed to take a decent photo of the latest award trophy - 2013 Motorcycle Group Achievement Award.

This piece of glass work can stand proudly alongside the 2011 3rd place award that we won from IAM.

The awards are given in recognition of all aspects of the group activities - training, social, communications etc.

We can all be rightly proud of our achievements, thank you to everyone involved in making DAM so successful.

DAM - The Best of the Best!

At the recent IAM Annual Motorcycle Conference, DAM were awarded the Motorcycle Group Achievement Award for 2013.

We have in the past been very proud to achieve a 3rd place in this award, but to win this award is a very proud moment for all of the Committee Members, Observers & Members of DAM as well as our support network in Durham Police. .

Winning this award is testament to the effort that all of us put into the club.

From myself as Chairman of DAM I would like to say congratulations to all of us and many thanks to all of you.

Richard Clement
Chairman DAM