23-07-12, 12:20 PM
Thanks for all your info guys, been really quite at work (which is worrying) so have just spent all week planning my Scotland trip. My motto with tours is to plan plan plan…after all you don’t have to stick to it but it doesn’t hurt to have the knowledge.
I'm looking to see as much as I can but at a nice pace, ride different types of roads (not just A roads), see the main sights but also get off the beaten track and I don’t really want to have to ride the same road twice…I don’t want much!
I just plotted this in google, takes a minute to load though. (Ignore the points, there just in to help me plot the route). This map doesn’t include my motorway route up from Worcestershire.
http://goo.gl/maps/Eigy
Route
Greenock – Dunoon ferry then inveraray, up to A82 then around Loch Leven.
Ive heard very mixed reviews about Dunoon to Inveraray though?
Would like to catch the Corran ferry then do the A861 up towards Fort William (but I will be on the opposite side of the water), then A830 to Mallaig for the ferry
Loop round Skye then use the Glenely to Kylerhea back to the main land, A87 up past Loch Ness to Inverness.
I know someone said to stay off the A road up past loch Ness and instead use the road on the east side of it (old military road, but is it rideable?)
Then head west on the A890 to Apple Cross and do the loop. This might seem a bit made as I've just come from Skye???
Then coast road up to Ullapool where I will be based for a few nights. From here do the Durness / Tongue loop.
Ullapool, across Inverness to Nairn. Then south through Cairngorms National Park towards Perth.
Perth through Crieff, A82 down through Loch Lomand…..then home.
I think that’s a good mix of big roads, small roads, towns, lochs, and ive put some small ferries in just for the adventure J any thoughts?
Really fancied going to Harris/Lewis but I've been reading lots of stuff on the net and I'm a little put off to be honest.
Thanks again for your input
I'm looking to see as much as I can but at a nice pace, ride different types of roads (not just A roads), see the main sights but also get off the beaten track and I don’t really want to have to ride the same road twice…I don’t want much!
I just plotted this in google, takes a minute to load though. (Ignore the points, there just in to help me plot the route). This map doesn’t include my motorway route up from Worcestershire.
http://goo.gl/maps/Eigy
Route
Greenock – Dunoon ferry then inveraray, up to A82 then around Loch Leven.
Ive heard very mixed reviews about Dunoon to Inveraray though?
Would like to catch the Corran ferry then do the A861 up towards Fort William (but I will be on the opposite side of the water), then A830 to Mallaig for the ferry
Loop round Skye then use the Glenely to Kylerhea back to the main land, A87 up past Loch Ness to Inverness.
I know someone said to stay off the A road up past loch Ness and instead use the road on the east side of it (old military road, but is it rideable?)
Then head west on the A890 to Apple Cross and do the loop. This might seem a bit made as I've just come from Skye???
Then coast road up to Ullapool where I will be based for a few nights. From here do the Durness / Tongue loop.
Ullapool, across Inverness to Nairn. Then south through Cairngorms National Park towards Perth.
Perth through Crieff, A82 down through Loch Lomand…..then home.
I think that’s a good mix of big roads, small roads, towns, lochs, and ive put some small ferries in just for the adventure J any thoughts?
Really fancied going to Harris/Lewis but I've been reading lots of stuff on the net and I'm a little put off to be honest.
Thanks again for your input