Weathers kinda nice - time to ride!
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So looking forward to being in the same spot next month....
So looking forward to being in the same spot next month....
Just over a month for me too. Going out on the 3rd
Newcastle to Ijmuiden
Now less than 4 weeks until we're on the ferry - out on the 30th May
Looking forward to some sun and decent roads.
Cheers.................................Grizzly
Now less than 4 weeks until we're on the ferry - out on the 30th May
Looking forward to some sun and decent roads.
Cheers.................................Grizzly
A wee birl to Kintyre
Just back from a 3 ferry trip to Arran via Campbeltown. Clyde ferry to Hunters Quay then Portavadie to Tarbert and Campbeltown via the A83. An overnight at the backpackers (which is very good) and back via the B842 to Claonaig, ferry to Lochranza and a fourth ferry from Brodick. The 842 is quite a road, genuinely single track in places with no room for even a bike to squeeze through. I just made the ferry and squeezed on board when the camper you see there was knocked back!
Crap weather but as with all trips, it's the people you meet. Cyclist at the hostel had to go to the local hospital as he was suffering from ticks as a result of wild camping the night before! The only other person was a Dutch woman who'd ridden from Ijmuiden on your typical "sit up and beg" Dutch ladies' push bike! She'd been rescued by the Polis on the M74 south of Moffat. "Motorwaysh dont mean the shame kind of roadsh in Holland."
On the day I arrived, she'd also cycled out to the Mull, walked down to the lighthouse and cycled back . Not bad for a woman in her 60s!
(I managed a few hundred yards down the road turned back, and was knackered! )
Just back from a 3 ferry trip to Arran via Campbeltown. Clyde ferry to Hunters Quay then Portavadie to Tarbert and Campbeltown via the A83. An overnight at the backpackers (which is very good) and back via the B842 to Claonaig, ferry to Lochranza and a fourth ferry from Brodick. The 842 is quite a road, genuinely single track in places with no room for even a bike to squeeze through. I just made the ferry and squeezed on board when the camper you see there was knocked back!
Crap weather but as with all trips, it's the people you meet. Cyclist at the hostel had to go to the local hospital as he was suffering from ticks as a result of wild camping the night before! The only other person was a Dutch woman who'd ridden from Ijmuiden on your typical "sit up and beg" Dutch ladies' push bike! She'd been rescued by the Polis on the M74 south of Moffat. "Motorwaysh dont mean the shame kind of roadsh in Holland."
On the day I arrived, she'd also cycled out to the Mull, walked down to the lighthouse and cycled back . Not bad for a woman in her 60s!
(I managed a few hundred yards down the road turned back, and was knackered! )
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Kinloch Hourn today Nice run up from Glasgow. The last mile to Kinloch Hourn has degraded a few pot holes and loose gravel on the down hill sections.
Disappointed in the tearoom coffee/tea scone or a cinnamon swirl.
No sandwiches or rolls.
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Disappointed in the tearoom coffee/tea scone or a cinnamon swirl.
No sandwiches or rolls.
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Lossiemouths new bridge over . . . the Lossie
Today, the realisation of the visualisation
SteveT
Vote of approval from my Lossie Quine Mrs.
Certainly anything but nice between Stratmore and Mallaig this pm....abssolutely lashing down between Fort W and Lochailort, 7 degrees, followed by a layer of lying hail on the road...Calmacs macaroni cheese warmed up the inner man and dome drams when I land with thd fellow fishers in S Uist....yay!
What a day on S Uist! But no use for fishing! However its been a braw fewcdays and the prospect of Mallaig to Ft W, followed by Spean to Dalwhinnie....two of my favourite biking roads in hopefully better weather than the journey here!
Shit! I give up!
Only a day late....
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Only a day late....
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That looks acceptable
Relaxing in the sun, looking over Eriskay towards Barra....
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