Soldiers show off bike skills on camera

11:20am Thursday 1st January 2009

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An Army motorcyling endurance team based in Oxfordshire is using dramatic footage from cameras mounted on its riders’ helmets to attract new recruits.

The Royal Logistic Corps Enduro Team, based at Dalton Barracks, in Abingdon, has competed in off-road races for 30 years, and has won ten silver medals for Britain in the annual International Six-Day Enduro Championship.

At a recent training exercise in Wantage, the riders put the new VEEcam cameras through their paces and have released the results as part of a drive to find new riders in the ranks.

Captain Rob Howard, the team’s manager, said: “Our championship rider Jack Johns is retiring from the Army and therefore is leaving the team, so we’re looking for new talent.

“The recruitment video made with the VEEcam footage will help get the message through to new Army recruits who are interested in this highly charged and exhilarating sport.”

He added: “We’re now looking forward to a tour of Europe in March and the forthcoming 2009 British Enduro Championships.

“We will of course be using the VEEcam during these events to get the best possible action footage.”

The off-road endurance team, which has just recruited its first female rider, Lance Corporal Deborah Kerr, consists of eight riders.

In October its members also filmed their progress in the three-hour Weston Beach Race as they battled 30ft sand dunes and water features along the seafront at Weston-super-Mare, in Somerset.

Capt Howard said: “The camera held up incredibly well through the beach race and provided us with excellent uninterrupted footage, which was instantly snapped up by Channel 4 and Sky Sports, because it was of such high quality.”