First biking/camping trip scotland

[noggythenog]

Hey red -  is that the Tomintoul road, looks familiar from my recent trip up there.
it was awsome!!!

[budgiemurray]

I second the carlisle to edinburgh by the a7. Thats my haunt. Motorway to stirlings pretty boring from there take the callander road to ft william.. The a9 is boring and droll. Frim ft william to inverness past loch ness. A9 to john o groats.
Head east for durness then south to inverness andft william again.

If time allows head for north ballachulish and take the oban loop back to tyndrum ( green welly stop) continue on to crainlanarch and take the loch lomand road south to glasgow.. After that your back onto boring roads again..

Budgie

[bigbluebear]

I second the carlisle to edinburgh by the a7. Thats my haunt. Motorway to stirlings pretty boring from there take the callander road to ft william.. The a9 is boring and droll. Frim ft william to inverness past loch ness. A9 to john o groats.
Head east for durness then south to inverness andft william again.

If time allows head for north ballachulish and take the oban loop back to tyndrum ( green welly stop) continue on to crainlanarch and take the loch lomand road south to glasgow.. After that your back onto boring roads again..

Budgie

He could take the A76 from Kilmarnock to Dumfries and then the A75 to Gretna, as Killie is only 15 minutes up the A77 from Glasgow........much better than the M74

[budgiemurray]

Good idea yeah bigbluebear. Dont know that area well but anythings better than motorway

Budgie

[esetest]

Hi Red , leaving Bristol tomorrow morning , should be in Fort William Saturday morning , I will give you a text when I get there , what's the weather like up there , its supposed to be cooler with showers tomorrow all the way up , the bikes all cleaned and ready to go .

[bigbluebear]

You'll be hard pushed to hit Fort William by Saturday morning. Weather doesn't look good....better in the east so would second the A7 to Edinburgh. Make sure you stop at the welly shop, then through glencoe to ballachuist and onto Fort William......great roads but hellish in bad weather so take extra care

[esetest]

Hi all , got back from Scotland midnight last night , left Fort William at 9am missed the turning for Glasgow at the end of Glencoe , was halfway to Stirling before I realised so decided to go to the Wallace monument , eventually found it . Great trip , fantastic scenery , found the Scottish people very friendly , most of the bikers wave,  met lots of characters along the way , thanks to Mick who was their with his family , and helped me build my tent in the gale on Saturday morning , I was generally lucky with the weather , the journey up through Glencoe was a bit scary with the crosswinds and the bike loaded up , on Sunday rode the A82 along  Loch Ness  , great road , on the way back went up the cable car by Ben Nevis . on Monday rode from Fort William to John O Groats and back , decided to give the bike a rest on Tuesday and walked the mountain trail to the top of Ben Nevis , I would recommend the Stag hotel in Moffat , the green welly café at the start of Glencoe . I would definitely go to Scotland again , the Glen Nevis camp site was excellent with great facilities . I took loads of photos , anybody know how to get them from my computer on to this site . Got to sort the bike before my next trip , heard a bang in Stirling , after that the bike was making a noise in first gear , it started alright this evening , but when I put it into first gear it didn't make its usual clunk , got a feeling its the gearbox but I am no mechanic . Thanks to everybody for the advice before I set off , it was very helpful .

[dickturpin]

Glad you enjoyed it, my first roadtrip was round Scotland up the east side and back down the west including a ferry crossing from dunoon back towards Glasgow.....very good memories.

[mickvp]

glad you enjoyed it. if you only have a few pics, you can upload pics directly to this site.

if you have got a load, you can upload loads to photobucket at once, and then post the image lints to them on here. see this guide here: http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,8973.0.html

[Exupnut]

U saw us

[esetest]

where

[mickvp]

wouldnt worry about it. think exupnut has been on the funny fags mate, he has posted one paragraph over about 20 threads :lol

[bigbluebear]

he's also a bit slow on the uptake......its the blue fazer slowing him down

[esetest]

A few pics from my Scotland trip

[esetest]

Pics from Scotland.

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Scotland pics

[boxer1]

Glad you enjoyed scotland, did you make oban? when next at glencoe try the clachaig inn, trmendous there  am up there a lot especially the weather we,ve had this year  no better roads in the uk than up there, more pics please 

[red98]

great pictures ESETEST...shame we did`nt meet....looks like you had better weather than me at john o groats...thick fog when i was there...if iam not mistaken is that the A82 nessie road i can see.....great road 

[esetest]

I didn't get to Oban , but I will definitely visit Scotland again , friendliest people I've ever met , great scenery , great roads , couldn't find a pub selling thatchers gold though  . That was the A82 by Loch Ness Red , shame we missed each other  by a day  , I was impressed with the Glen Nevis camp site  . a good road I found was if you turn left at Nessie land , go a few miles then turn right towards Beauley . I've got the camping bug now , trying to get the missus to give camping a go , she won't get on the bike though . here's some more pics .   

[esetest]

some more pics