Weathers kinda nice - time to ride!

A stunning run back from Lochboidale...I have never seen so many dolphins as on this trip...at least 3 pods, one of them 30 or 40 animals....it was that calm you would see a crab fart.....
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From a wet, forshortened weekend at Strontian . . .

One picture from the ride west on Thursday, at a favourite layby with a view, for a nice cuppa
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Castle Tioram photod on Fridays wander
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Always nice to get a picture of the Glenn Finnan monument from afar
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And then the same with the H. Potter train viaduct . . .
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Final photo is from the climb away from Loch Sheil, heading back to Strontian
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For info, the camp site at strontian no longer has a bothy.

Steve T

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Too many for me !

It's nice to get west, even if the weather is a bit off...it's not nice to get west when it's absolutely rammed with vanners !!

Achmelvich on 31st May.

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Hmmmm...note to self...avoid Achmelvich in the summer. Shame, but who are we to deny others the pleasure of such a lovely spot....
 
Highland Classic Bike Club Loch Ness Rally and run yesterday, 150 miles on a 150cc bike. A bit wet and windy but it didn’t spoil the views.

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It’s been a while since I managed a run with my older lad.

All the best bits of road from Callander to Connel and back again were empty when it mattered.

A nice 200 mile hop.

A quick cuppa from a flask and we made a U turn. Both of us had to be home for other duties.

His average speed 50 - Mine 45 :)
 

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Early start, tried out Calimoto for the first time. Lovely circular route today, Falkirk, through Stirlingshire, Auchterarder, Cowdenbeath and then home.

Perfect way to get to know my new to me Tiger 800. Roads were great, just a fair few pelotons about on the back roads thinking they own the whole road.

On some lovely woodland road to Auchterarder

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Early start, tried out Calimoto for the first time. Lovely circular route today, Falkirk, through Stirlingshire, Auchterarder, Cowdenbeath and then home.

Perfect way to get to know my new to me Tiger 800. Roads were great, just a fair few pelotons about on the back roads thinking they own the whole road.

On some lovely woodland road to Auchterarder

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Great to see you getting some fun from the bike and glad it went to a good home!
 
A wee bimble down Strath Halladale

Quiet roads and easy run down to Helmsdale and then home to Thurso.
Temp even managed to get to 17C.
 

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Experimenting with Tapatalk and a new phone. Some pics of a ride to Manorhead last week.

Manorhead is at the head of the Manor water - an 8 mile dead end. I rode over the Meldons and came out on the Peebles - Lanark road a mile or so east of Lyne kirk. If you head towards Peebles, the junction to Manorhead is on the right. Before that, however, I dropped into the Barony hotel to have a look at the Great Polish map of Scotland. The hotel (it used to be the Black Barony) was HQ for Polish forces during WW2 (spot the Polish eagles on the dormers!) and the owner of the hotel (also a Pole) built the map as a thank you for the hospitality they'd received from Scots.

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At Manor Kirk, stop and have a look at the grave of David Ritchie, "the Black Dwarf". Walter Scott's book of the same name is based on him. A bit further up Manor water is the but and ben he built. (Later added to but his original door is still there!)

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At the end of the Manor valley, the metalled road peters out and there's also a footpath over to St Mary's Loch. Next time I'll take the GS and go right to the end!

Dead Wife's Burn? There's also a Dead Wife's Grave- a cairn - at the top of the hill, overlooking Stobo. The Dead Wife was apparently a camp follower of Montrose's army in 1645. She got this far after the slaughter at Philliphaugh but was caught and killed by Covenanters in the mayhem that followed Montrose's defeat.
 

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Took a nice wee bimble up to Doune on sunday to watch the hillclimb. Loads of records being broken.

Here's a braw V8.
 

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Wednesday evening chipper run, temp still 19C at 9pm.
Not often you get sun in your eyes when travelling north?
Roads to ourselves, over this 40mile stretch met 3 other vehicles. :thumb2
 

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Today it was a 200 mile loop SW.

Clocked 1 more Loch. Begins with K.

23 to go.

How good is the A702 when it’s “all yours” :)

But fuck this £30 a tank full lark.
 

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In a cafe at Applecross I spotted this.

Anybody seen it before, know the story?
 

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Loch Duich, up near Eilean Donan Castle. Lovely part of the world.

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Down the A7, then to Innerleithen and the old toll road to Traquair. The tale about the locked gates is that they will not be opened until another Jacobite sits on the throne. That'll be a while then! It's already been 275 years!

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Then via the Gordon Arms to Megget. About a kilometer down the Megget road is Henderland and on a wee knoll just off the road, the grave of Cockburn of Henderland. I knew bugger all about it until I strolled over to this info board at St Mary's Loch and stopped for a look

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I must have ridden past Henderland dozens of times and never knew it was there. Every day's a schoolday.

Over to Tweedsmuir and then home via the Red Barn for lunch. Very nice too! :thumb2
 


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