Mk5Centurion

The tag for Glen Coe - should it be the King House Hotel instead of the Kings Head? I'd better register again this year - looks like another good 'un!

Brilliant roads mate. Stop off at the wee coffee shop at Carsphairn. Really nice wee place and biker friendly. It's just like a wee house. Was down that way yesterday, but cut across to Moniaive from Dalry (the better road this time), to Thornhill, Dalveen Pass, and Abington, then up the road before Revs had to go to work. Did some of the reverse on Saturday - Abington, Crawford, Elvanfoot and down Dalveen, Moniaive, Dumfries, Moffat. I see a lot of the roads have been resurfaced

The White Hart in Dumfries: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/20120602_161843.jpg The Green Tea Shop (New one): http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/20120602_154815.jpg Green Tea Shop (Where it used to be!): http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/20120602_154022.jpg

The Buccleuch Arms: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/270520121398.jpg

You look like a Mod, where is your scooter Luckily for me - thats my brother!

Left work early today (one of the benefits of Cooncil flexi time!) and lets face it, it would have been rude not to with the weather been so nice Thought i'd head for the coast and turn my 22 mile trip home into 80 odds, through Largs, Weymss Bay, Port Glasgow - nobody any the wiser Eaglesham Moor http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/230520121388.jpg Arran in the distance http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/230520121389.jpg

Ah, home. I learned to ride on those roads - its a hard life sometimes

I was along there a couple of weeks ago - fan.tastic

I'll probably pop along for a bit - not exactly far is it?

Nothing like freshly painted and rebuilt calipers eh? Looking good!

'Twas my wee brothers stag do at the weekend - off to Aviemore on the bike it was. Had all day and wanted some tags for Challenge 100 and a couple of others from another photo rally that i'm doing, so up the A82 it was, stopped at Drovers, Green Welly, Glencoe, Maccy D's, Commando Memorial, somewhere after Fort William - wee bit of snow at Fort Augustus, Inverness and finally Aviemore (well actually we stayed in Granton on Spey). Came home on Sunday, i was so fecking hungover i went straight down the A9 - ran into a few miserable sleety/haily/rainy showers. Couple of snaps (only from Friday - couldn't be ar$ed stopping on Sunday and the ones from Fri night and Sat aren't for public consumption ): http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/040520121345.jpg http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/040520121348.jpg http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/040520121349.jpg Ok, just one from the stag then: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/050520121357.jpg You couldn't see much of the target at then end

Sorry to hear about your nail Ian - i ran into the first flurry of snow at Fort Augustus on Friday afternoon (was heading to Inverness for the Grail photo rally). Sunday was the crappest day out for a wee while, could have been the monster hangover mind TC - i took my number this time!

Grabbed a few en route to my brothers stag do: Drovers Inn: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/040520121346.jpg Green Welly: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/040520121347.jpg Commando Memorial: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/040520121350.jpg

Cathedrals ??????? We have Pubs on ours What does that say about this forum hic!

I'm off to my brothers stag do tomorrow morning - going a very conviluted route to get to Aviemore! AND i'm doing another photo rally on top of this one (Cathedrals) so as well as the west of scotland challenge ones i've to stop at Inverness, Dornoch and Elgin Cathedrals - i must be mad Weather look not too bad mind

Going on the Sunday

I was up in a (very wet) Argyll and Bute on Good Friday, stopped at the jail in Inveraray for a picture - i thought i had my number in my jacket pocket but no luck I really need the number in the picture don't i? Not that i have any aversion to going back that way mind......

Apologies if this is in the wrong section - wasn't sure if it should go in chat or not I went to the NW years ago but went over and back in a day; has anyone been recently and have you any campsite recommendations? I fancy going next year

Count me in as well TC - 01 Littlecat - 02 Mealexme - 03 iWannaGoFast - 04 Augustburnsred - 05 Stu - 06 mojo - 07 iiisecondcreep - 08 Susieque - 09 techno - 10 Bogof - 11 rennie - 12 yorbandit - 13 Keith565 - 14 whitedevil - 15 Silverspring - 16 nman1 -17 Rebel Rach - 18 Green - 19 GOG - 20 Bonniebird - 21 Throttled - 22 Randomobject-23 Tango - 24 Nellie - 25 MickeyGW - 26 Mk5Centurion - 27 Bumble - 37 Byangoma - 40 R1Barry - 41 Voodoo - 46 Decor58 - 58 Timmy Tiger - 69 Boothy - 93 Polecat - 101 pinki-88 - 666 JamBerryKing - 777 brewster - 840 Jota - 888

All Together Now - The Farm

Cat and fiddle - Its local and famous(ish) Ponderosa - North Wales is stunning Tan Hill - Highest pub in England with great roads Seaways at Fridaythorpe. Any cafe in Hawes Hartside near Penrith Squires, Newthorpe, Sherburn in Elmete Coastriders Cafe, Wimbourne, Cropper Road, Blackpool, Lancs. FY4 5LB LONDON ROAD INC, 63-65 London Road South, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR330AS The Green Welly, Tyndrum, Perthshire FK20 8RY The Pit Stop Diner, The Pier, Arrochar, G83 7AB Carbeth Inn, Stockiemuir Road, Blanefield nr Glasgow G63 9AY willingham woods just outside market rasen Ace Cafe, London - crap roads but fantastic atmosphere and food Oasis cafe, Abergavenney bus station. Popular stop any weekend. petrolheads bagilt north wales The Buccleuch Arms Hotel, High Street, Moffat, Owned by bikers, fantastic food and drink. The Glen Cafe, A708, St Marys Loch, Beautiful location amongst some of the regions best roads. The Green Tea House, Moniaive, DG3 4EJ, Eclectic food and drink, good roads nearby. The Burnside Tea Room, Glasgow Road, Sanquhar, DG4 6BZ. Close to good roads The Drovers Inn, A82, Inverarnan, G83 7DX, Historic hostelry, lots of character, good food The Seaforth Pub at the Pier, Ullapool, best fish i ever had, the A835 is one of the best roads ever.

I went up north last week to attend the ABR magazine rally/pi$$ up in Ullapool Assuming it works heres the googlemaps link: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=ll Left Glasgow on Friday morning in torrential rain and headed up the A82 as far as Crianlarich before heading towards Callandar but coming off the A82 and heading to Killin and along Loch Tay towards Kenmore where it began to dry up. Before i got to Kenmore i headed up towards Foss and through Tummel Bridge before stiking towards the A9 which i joined at Stuan (north of Pitlochry). Now i know that all seems a bit strange when the most direct route to Ullapool from Glasgow is to go straight up the A82, but the ABR magazine forum is doing a photo rally this year of all the country's national parks and forrest parks. The basic premise (apologies if i'm telling you how to suck eggs ) is to go to said national park (usually the visitor centre) or forrest park and get a picture of the bike, with your rally plate for your "tick" and to upload your picture to the gallery on the forum, kudos etc for as many completed as possible, so i used the rally as an excuse to go to the Cairngorms National Park - in this case though the location was the Mountain Ski Centre. With the "tick" duely collected i stopped on the way back at Loch Morlich for a jam sandwich and a coffee: http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/DSCF0579.jpg After that it was back to the A9 and north towards the heelan capital that is Inverness (or Inversnecky as us jocks sometimes call it) just in time to hit the queue of traffic heading over the Kessock Bridge (which came with obligatory high wind warning ), a quick splash of fuel at Torve and then north west towards Ullapool. The last 50 or so miles along the A835 are amongst some of the best that i have ridden. Fact. The only downside was that this little journey had taken 6 and a half hours and i was pretty tired. Arriving at the Broomfield campsite ( http://www.broomfieldhp.com/) there were a fair few who had braved the initial bad weather and it was starting to fill up (one chap arrived on Thursday, got blown about by the wind, and left on Friday but made the mistake of posting it on the forum ) http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/DSCF0580.jpg I wandered off to find some food and had the most amazing Scampi Supper at a chippy called the Seaforth overlooking the ferry port, mmm The campsite looks over Loch Broom http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/DSCF0581.jpg http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/DSCF0582.jpg The rest of the evening was spent imbibing various beverages and generally having a laugh A leisurely approach was needed on Saturday morning but folks were wanting to get out and about to see the highland roads, and there were 4 organised rideouts to choose from but many others just did their own thing....all very relaxed. As for me, it was my sons 2nd birthday on Sunday so rather than risk being in the bad books with the wife, and lets face it its not every day you're 2, i headed back home at a more leisurely pace. This time i went back along the A82 and took in Loch Ness http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/24092011883.jpg Stopped for a very poor meal in a cafe in Drumnadrochit which was disappointing, but hey ho. Stopped at the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge http://i942.photobucket.com/albums/ad266/samcrow_photo/24092011884.jpg Its been 15 years since i was there last, before we were dragged into illegal wars and all that guff, so to see all the recent memorials to the Commando's killed in Iraq and Afganistan really brought home what a difficult job those boys do. The road down through Glen Coe was, as usual, spectacular and there were bikes everywhere (it was a glorious day after all). Stopped for the last time at the Green Welly which was heaving with bikes too and got home about half 4. Sunday saw me dancing about like a numptry and eating lots of cake, but no-one wants to hear about that 'cos this is a bike forum All is well in my world

I was up Glen Douglas a couple of weeks ago, me bash plate is still covered in $hite from the herd of cows i almost ran into, gravel and dung made for a slippy trip. Home via Glen Fruin was better

Thankfully not, but the Tiger's a big old girl when she starts fishtailing!

F**k**g greasy roads, f**k**g diesel. F**k it!