A82 Inverness to Fort William..

Unfuckingreal in a passat estate full of wife & child, I am coming back next
year on a fucking fast bike
--

Nige

R1
MX5

 

that's the shit part. The best bit of the A82 is south of FW via Glencoe,
across Rannoch Moor and down the west side of Loch Lomond.

Good licence losing territory in the summer. More chance there than North
Wales.

 

I did it in the opposite direction (Glasgow to Inverness) a decade or so
ago in a Metro and it was a hoot.

 

Must be about the only reason I stay in this country now. That and
the road to Skye and probably the road to Braemar.

 

Seen a lot of filth though, unmarked & vans on the A9 (expected) vans
allover the place on the lesser routes, having said that, the weather has
been stunning to say the least

 

Did it in May, Freezing cold, wet, snowy and foggy.

And brilliant.

 

Did that in May (bike) and a week or so ago (car), *mega* traffic jams
both times in the middle of nowhere because there is a new bridge
being built across Rannoch Moor.

I'd give it 6 months to get sorted out.

 

I did that on the GSXR fully loaded the other year. It was more fun
than a 206 the year before.

 

I drove that a few weeks ago coming over from Edinburgh. I even
managed to overtake a few bikes in my shit old 1.8 Focus. Dunno what
they were playing at.

 

I love most of the roads in the Highlands. It's just a shame they're
normally so fcking far away from me.

And this year, when they've been nice and close, the bike has been 400
miles away.

Ho hum, only another 5 weeks till I return to Her Majesty's Glorious
Midlands.

 

Did Inverness to Fort William and back, sort of, but along the Great
Glen in a yacht. That was in May this year. When we moored up to eat we
saw a huge number of bikes either UK reg or German reg.

Beautiful country side, good food and beer.

 

That's the road where I hit a pothole and wrecked both wheels on my
second ZZR1100. I didn't have any joy trying to claim off the cunts who
supposedly maintained the road either

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Its the Scottish version of the A5.

Get on some of the more northern roads.

 

We did the same journey in a cruiser in June this year. Really lovely
and we had great weather too. Drove up via Edinburgh and then back
down the other side over Glencoe and Rannoch Moor to Glasgow; great
roads even in a Fiat 500.

Same obs; loads of bikes about but traffic levels on the A82 were such
that they were mostly stuck in the traffic.

 

Did you stop to eat and drink at The Eagle floating pub at Lagan Locks?
Truly excellent food.

This is the company we hired the Yacht through. The Eagle is their
'local' so they have a bit about it on their web site.

http://www.westhighlandsailing.com/eagle.html

 

Bang on. That top bit has loads of double solids and coaches and
camper vans, etc. The bit through Glencoe is stunning. You can also do
a little tour round Kinlochleven, which is very pretty.

We did Scotland this year and the best day's riding was from Pitlochry
to Braemar, then left at Crathie, across the ski slopes, then
Inverness to Ullapool. It was, in fact, probably the best day's riding
of my life. That despite the rain and the Scots idea of maintaining
road surfaces by liberally sprinkling them with gravel.

 

No - saw it though! I recommend the Fiddler's at Drumnadrochit!

We used this co:http://www.caleycruisers.com/

I like the idea of a sailing boat, but I've never sailed so probably
not the best way to start!

 

This is what we hired this time.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25701154@N04/5117922637/

 

Bloody scruffy sail, though. Didn't it come with a bag?

 

Fort Augustus, by the look of it! Here's our cruiser about 50 yards
nearer the bridge.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48468879@N05/sets/72157625123402069/