Who Are We? – Trevor Baird
Trevor Baird: born and raised in Northern Ireland was Chairman of a local motorcycle club for four years in the 1990s.
From taking part in the Bigger than Borders demo in 1995 he eventually became the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) UK’s Regional Representative for Northern Ireland, before moving to mainland UK in 2002 where he worked as a full time employee for MAG UK, first as Director of Public Affairs and then as General Secretary.
During this time Trevor was also a representative at the Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations (FEMA) which is made of twenty four national rider organisations from 19 countries across Europe.
In 2008 Trevor left MAG UK and became FEMA’s Technical Officer representing an International Coalition of organisations from Europe and the USA at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), returning to Northern Ireland in 2009 and setting up Right To Ride.
Trevor’s history of motorcycling is long – starting on a Yamaha DT 175MX in 1977, before getting hooked on BMWs in the late nineties finally settling on a R1200GSA Adventure – but always keen for an adventure Trevor is now also riding a Kawasaki GPZ1100 with Watsonian double seat sidecar attached, now every corner is an adventure in the hack.
Email: info@righttoride.co.uk
Who Are We? – Elaine Hardy
Elaine Hardy, PhD: born in Australia and moved to England in 1992.
In 2003 Elaine joined MAG UK and became the organisation’s Research Officer, also representing MAG UK at FEMA from 2004 to 2007.
Between 2007 and 2009 she was FEMA’s Research Officer.
Elaine’s background is vehicle data analysis and has worked for many years with government agencies especially in the area of vehicle crime research. She is currently Vice President of the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators (IAATI) in the UK.
She has written numerous papers on motorcycling issues for MAG UK and FEMA.
Email: research@righttoride.co.uk
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