French run rules

Do they apply to any country which is not England ?

I only ask because Scraggy was using the French run rules on the A82
past Loch Lomond yesterday, and indeed all the way to the Corran Ferry.

I was a little suprised at first, but then realised Scotland probably
counts as a foreign country to him.

 

Il n'y a aucune règle.

 

ok, what the **** did that mean

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike

 

"Speed limits do not apply", at a guess.

 

There is no rule.

 

It means enjoy the ride.

It was reminiscent of our recent run to France. Cars being very polite
and moving over to left to let us through, and when they didn't there
was still plenty of space for a Scraggy. I hasten to add that I wasn't
quite as confident of getting through those gaps with oncoming traffic
but if a BMW R1100RT with hard panniers could do it, then I figured my
CBR600RR must surely fit through too.

I might have mentioned that I'd checked the Police website for position
of mobile speed camera units and the only one on the route would be at
Bridge of Orchy.
http://strathclydecameras.com/cameras_map.asp

Also, since the deciding games for championship of the Scottish Premier
League were taking place that afternoon, the Police might be occupied
elsewhere...

I'm not sure if those two opinions made any difference or whether he was
just gasping for a pint but let's just say that his BMW can certainly
make good progress when it wants.

 

Scraggy was staying at Acharacle I think, so we headed west off the
ferry, this would have been around 1pm on the Sunday

That's a shame, I came over from Edinburgh and met met up at the bottom
of Loch Lomond (Balloch) and it was dry all the way. First drops of rain
I encountered were waiting for the ferry.

I did see a few bikes parked up at the Inn coming off the ferry but
figured the rain had just started so it wasn't going to be too bad. The
road to Acharacle was great although there was a stretch of really badly
laid stone chipping. The sign posts to Strontian always make me smile as
I keep thinking of a character from the 2000 AD comic.

The rain was light and intermittent all the way back to Fort William,
still enjoyed that A861. I stopped off at the Claichaig Inn in Glencoe
for some steak and ale pie just as the heavens opened up. Stayed that
way almost to Crianlarich. Coming down the side of Loch Lomond was warm
and dry, irresistibly good fun.

 

Frooty wrote:
snip

Strontium Dog !

I really do wonder about the tourist industry in this country.

Glad to know our tax is being well spent.

Can't argue about the always wet bit !

Don't know when you were last down Loch Lomond but the 16 mile stretch
from Balloch to Tarbet is a good fast road. The 8 mile stretch running
the remainder of the loch from Tarbet heading towards Crainlarich was
pretty poor, they were resurfacing a section of it too. Had me grinning
like a loon though, lots of short overtaking opportunities requiring big
handfuls of throttle and big handfuls of brake.

Mind you it'd be a very different ride on your TT-R 250, what's a
comfortable touring speed on that ?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, DozynSleepy

I don't.

Generally overpriced, poor quality and with an enduring feeling that the
world owes it a living.

There are honourable exceptions, but that's my overall experience.

It's a damned shame, really. It doesn't *seem* like it should be that
difficult to do, but apparently it is.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Ah! You are heading for the Antler Rally?

You turned round too soon

<surfs web>
It's not 'til September it would seem.

Last I heard it was here:-
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...97932,-6.10106&spn=0.011546,0.043774&t=h&z=15

Kilchoan, Acharacle, UK

A decent warm up for the Eastern Front trip perhaps?

Seems to still be running but the organisers don't appear to be
very Interwebbied up.

 

It was a pleasure, I'll definitely be making an effort to do that run
again soon.

Countries separated by a common language barrier ;-)