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#1 | Scotland Jun/Jul 2021 datum

Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:16 pm

Unfortunately I don't have time to do a full write up of a recent tour around Scotland - instead below is a link to a montage of video clips and photos shot on the trip.

In Summary we wild camped 2 nights, 2 nights at a normal campsite, 1 night in a relatives back garden, and stayed in Travelodges on the first day over the border and last night on the way out. Did the Western half of the NC500 (and additional roads).

Route was
England > Perth (via Edinburgh) > Inverness (via Braemar) > North Coast Beach near Midfield (via Lairg) > West Coast (Altandhu) > Applecross (via Gairloch) > Glasgow > England

My mate, on the R1150GS with his son, (bike recently put back on road after being left for 16 years!) said it was the best Motorcycle trip he's ever done, and I can't disagree with him, certainly the best trip I've had to Scotland.

You Tube Video Link

Jason.

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#2 | RE: Scotland Jun/Jul 2021 datum

Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:36 pm (Last edited: Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:41 pm)

Nice one Jason! A really picturesque record of your journey - and certainly seeing Scotland at its best!
Based near Edinburgh I get to go to these places a lot and know these roads well. I still maintain the A832 is THE best biking road in the UK!
Am currently getting set for the first week in August when four of us will be doing a "4 Corners of Scotland" trip - taking in the Scottish mainland's most southerly, westerly, northerly and easterly points - 1,300 miles in five days - and certainly covering much of the tarmac you did!
Glad you avoided the A9 and took the fabulous A93 option - it's a gem!
Haste ye back!

If you're interested:
Northernmost point � Dunnet Head at 58°40′N 3°22′W, Caithness, Highland, Scotland
Southernmost point � Mull of Galloway, Wigtownshire at 54°38′N 4°52′W
Westernmost point � Corrachadh Mòr, (Ardnamurchan Point) Highland at 56°42′N 6°13′W
Easternmost point � Keith Inch, Aberdeenshire at 57°30′N 1°46′W

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#3 | RE: Scotland Jun/Jul 2021 datum

Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:49 pm

You missed a few great roads

But most of them are good. I have a long list of favourites. It�s my playground.

Very sad that 3 bike riders died this weekend in separate crashes - each crashing with another vehicle.

Carpe Diem!

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#4 | RE: Scotland Jun/Jul 2021 datum

Wed Jul 21, 2021 4:56 pm

Zitat von Woz955 im Beitrag #2
Nice one Jason! A really picturesque record of your journey - and certainly seeing Scotland at its best!
Based near Edinburgh I get to go to these places a lot and know these roads well. I still maintain the A832 is THE best biking road in the UK!
Am currently getting set for the first week in August when four of us will be doing a "4 Corners of Scotland" trip - taking in the Scottish mainland's most southerly, westerly, northerly and easterly points - 1,300 miles in five days - and certainly covering much of the tarmac you did!
Glad you avoided the A9 and took the fabulous A93 option - it's a gem!
Haste ye back!

If you're interested:
Northernmost point � Dunnet Head at 58°40′N 3°22′W, Caithness, Highland, Scotland
Southernmost point � Mull of Galloway, Wigtownshire at 54°38′N 4°52′W
Westernmost point � Corrachadh Mòr, (Ardnamurchan Point) Highland at 56°42′N 6°13′W
Easternmost point � Keith Inch, Aberdeenshire at 57°30′N 1°46′W

I've ridden in Scotland 4 times prior to this trip and have now done most of the main land's roads including on those trips; the Southern, Northern and Western points you list (not got east yet).

This trip I was riding with a very long term friend, with whom I started biking with back in the early 80s (both in our teens then). He's just got back into biking after 16+ years off. He did some huge trips back in the late 80s early 90s all over Europe, but he'd never ridden in Scotland. He only had 10 days (including getting from London and back) and he and his son (on pillion) are also not yet 'bike fit' enough to ride much more than 200 miles in one day, so we had some limits to work within, but covered what I felt was the best loop to expose them to what's on offer.

Interestingly, the A832 was his favorite road of the trip too, we road it from Ullapool to Kinlochewe, and to the lookout point, before turn back to Shieldaig on our way to wild camp at Applecross.

We will be back

Jason

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