Came down from Moray today. Rothes - Tomintoul - the Lecht - Donside - Braemar - Glenshee - Perth. What a fantastic ride. Done it many times before of course but rarely on a better day. At the top of the ridge overlooking Deeside (with the view over to the Cairngorms in the distance and Lochnagar in the foreground) a Dutch VFR was stopped. So of course, I stopped too and said ... "A bit different from the Netherlands then!" Massive grin in response!
Btw ... There are still piles of gravel on the road below the Lecht. Ride with care!
Afternoon all
I'm looking for a bit of advice/opinions from other peoples experience.
I've got a 4 day tour of Scotland booked in at the end of June. Rough idea of the route we are planning to take each day detailed below but hoping people can make a few suggestions re best roads to take. One of the group is on a road bike so single track roads are fine but sheep tracks are not what we are looking for. Of the beaten track, scenic, real Scotland please.
Day 1 - M6 & M74 to get past Glasgow, A82 up past Lock Lomond, A83 from Tarbet to Lockgilphead, A816 & A85 through Oban and back east to pick up the A82 back up at Tyndrum before heading north to Glencoe and then Kinlochleven.
Day 2 - Kinlochleven to the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge before heading west to catch the ferry from Mallaig to Armadale, Loop around Skye taking in as much as we can including the roads from Sligachan to Dunvegan and Uig to Brogaig, bridge off the Isle and up to Strathcarron and then over the Bealach Na Ba to Applecross and round the peninsula to Fearnmore, Torridon, Kinlochewe and up to Gairloch for the night.
Day 3 - Garloch to Ullapool via Poolewe and Dundonnell and then north to Ledmore before turning SE and heading to Oykel Bridge and Bonar Bridge and south to Inverness. South into the Cairngorms (not on the A9).
Then its either;
1 - south of Edinburgh for an overnight stop before a play in the low lands and Kielder forest on our way south or
2 - back west/south west out of the bottom of the Cairngorms into the Trossachs and then south to do the west coast roads and Galloway forest on the way south...again with an overnighter in there somewhere probably just north of Glasgow.
A full on few days but should be good fun. Thoughts, opinions, ideas and suggestions all welcome.
[Take false numberplates. Scottish police are nicking people for 1MPH over the limit......]
Not my experience..........
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......Dreamt up by Clive
Take false numberplates. Scottish police are nicking people for 1MPH over the limit so copy the scumbags who get away with everything
Take false numberplates. Scottish police are nicking people for 1MPH over the limit so copy the scumbags who get away with everything