Support floods in for MCN’s Reclaim North Wales campaign

Readers have contacted MCN in droves to give their backing to our campaign to reclaim North Wales for motorcyclists.

We’re challenging North Wales Police’s treatment of motorcyclists – described by officers elsewhere as an “enforce and displace” strategy – by encouraging as many of you as possible to ride there on Sunday September 13. 

We decided action was needed after the force admitted stopping around 400 motorcyclists every summer weekend including 350 who have committed no offence.

Emails of support have flooded in from readers including police officers and North Wales business owners – and even the region’s Daily Post newspaper has publicised our plans.

Alan Shepherd, of A&D Motorcycles and Sam’s biker cafe in Denbigh, wrote: ‘It really is hell up here… We would like to support you and the campaign in any way we can.’

Nich Brown, spokesman for the Motorcycle Action Group, wrote: ‘MAG will be very pleased to support the September 13 event in North Wales.’

Another reader wrote: ‘I am a police officer with 14 years’ experience… To stop so many bikers is nuts.’

MCN is asking readers to meet us at two points easily accessible from outside the region at midday on September 13 and again at 4pm in the heart of Snowdonia. Our aim is to remind the force whose roads they are by exercising our right to enjoy them within the law.