routes from tyndrum?

[steadysteve]

Fellas,
Staying in tyndrum for 3 days and just wondered if any of you guys can recommend some decent roads in the area?
Hoping to stay off the A roads as much as possible to avoid the bloody tourists
Any tips appreciated.
Thanks

 

[RevvingRev]

If you've not been up here before I don't want to be flippant but it pretty much doesn't matter which roads you choose round there - there are many brilliant ones. And as for avoiding A class roads thats not a bad idea but you will miss some great roads and there won't be too many tourists at this time of year. Don't think A class roads round Tyndrum are like the ones in Lincolnshire - think lots less people and much narrower and twistier.

I did a loop not dis-similar to this in the spring. A great day out https://goo.gl/maps/StzXSb8CWU52

If you don't have to go back to Tyndrum every day I would try to add Skye into that loop by carrying on to Mallaig and getting the ferry (but book it in advance) across explore the island and then coming back over the Bridge and then down.

 

[AndyR34]

Plenty decent roads Steve, don't discount the A roads, tourist season is runnign down...
Day One on Skye for a start (google "Quiraing"), Day Two could be a run up the A82 past Loch Ness round to Ullapool and back via Poolewe and Applecross with give you a bit of everything (Lochs, Hills and Coastline), Day Three could be a day eastwards into the Cairngorms.
Enjoy our scenery and spread the word - it's pretty cool up here! The weather is due to be OK for the next few days and our local BWM dealer is running a trip out on Sunday (Lochinver) if you're still about!?
Andy

 

[steadysteve]

Thanks fellas. Noted about the A roads, will try and mix and match a bit-- got stuck behind a bus and a stream of cars on the way up which put me off the major routes.
Revving rev I have planned a route for tomorrow which, by chance, includes sections of your route so its good to know they are good roads.

I had a bit of a diversion off my main route today to visit parents staying at Glentrool and did a couple of sections that were just brilliant, the A712 from Crocketford to Newton Stewart--- one corner after another on mostly good surfaces. And then the section accross the moors from Glentrool to Tallaminnock and up to Straiton. Next to no traffic and corner after corner.
First proper trip on this bike(GS LC), fully loaded panniers and top box but it just makes it so easy after riding an RT for nearly five years.
Thanks for the tips.

 

[ossa eck]

Your in the middle of some fantastic roads up there, most are A roads but Highlands style and not like anywhere else.
As long as you get the weather it will be great .
Enjoy

 

[gerarddwatts]

You don't really have a lot of choice and they're all good. Go west and the road splits at the edge of the village..south to Oban and north to Ballachulish/Fort William. The Oban road is probably quieter and the better road, the northerly busier but more scenic. So do both. But beware speed checks at weekends. Go east and its as good but watch for cameras. Or do a circuit to Connell, up to Ballachulish, Glencoe Tyndrum.....and reverse...

Easily done is a circuit up to Mallaig, ferry to Armadale, over to Broadford, then either wee ferry Kylerhea-Glenelg-Mam Ratagan, Shiel, Spean, or if no ferry bridge to Kyle and Eiean Donan-Shiel-Spean. To be honest, wherever you point your bike is good....just take time to enjoy it.

Warning...may need to book ferries these days...

 

[Wicker]

Personally I like single track and the roads that loop around Loch Awe (signed Cladich and Ford) are great wee roller coasters if a lot patched in places and with loose gravel. Usually see a few raptors up there too. Also that wee road (B8070) that goes from Bridge of Orchy to Inverlochy. Want something faster and more suited to a sports bikes: Tyndrum, Inverary, Furnace, Lochgilphead - A816, to Oban.

If heading south, get off the main road and try Arrochar to Helensburgh alongside the Gare Loch and Naval Base taking either the A817 (this is the better of the two routes) or the A818 to join up with the A82 alongside Loch Lomond. There's also a wee road along Glen Fruin which I keep meaning to ride.

Glad I live up here and not in Lincolnshire - its as flat as witches tit down there and the roads too open and over-trafficed for my taste. Welcome to Scotland

 

[Wicker]

And, when you reach Glencoe Village, the Kinlochleven loop around Loch Leven

 

[Boxerboy55]

It's pretty much all been said. I took the left fork yesterday - some road works going on - and it was so good that I spun round and ran a section backward and forwards again. Even got a wave back when I acknowledged the camera wielding yellow jackets in Taynuilt. What's this "tourist traffic" you're expecting? Dead quiet now. Consider getting further up and east - I clocked almost 400 miles up through Fort Bill and one of my favourite stretches - Spean Bridge to Aviemore. Then down through the Lecht and Glen Shee. It's all brilliant.

Nearer home today in central belt I rode a road (?) I'd never met before. The Crow Road over the hill from Lennoxtown to Fintry. Plus the Dukes Pass in Trossachs country. I find these just a bit too tight and twisty for real fun, unlike the sweepers elsewhere, but hey-ho, a nice jaunt anyway.

 

[steadysteve]

We did fort william and applecross today, with a diversion to skye via the ferry and off via the bridge. Brilliant roads, weather and not too much traffic. 320 miles.