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    Biker Cafe/pubs

    in Ride Reports and Pictures

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    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.

    Highlands Trip

    in Ride Reports and Pictures

    Posted

    I went up north last week to attend the ABR magazine rally/pi$$ up in Ullapool :cheers:


    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 :roll: ) 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:


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    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 :shock: ), 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 :oops: )


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    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 8-)


    The campsite looks over Loch Broom


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    The rest of the evening was spent imbibing various beverages and generally having a laugh :3some: :lol:


    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


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    Stopped for a very poor meal in a cafe in Drumnadrochit :cry: which was disappointing, but hey ho. Stopped at the Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge


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    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 :mrgreen:


    All is well in my world :D

    Out And About

    in Scotland Rideouts and Meets

    Posted

    Overlooking Faslane Naval Base.


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    Came back over Glen Douglas, a single track road covered in gravel and cow dung. Felt the bike slide about a lot.

     

    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 :mrgreen:

    Out And About

    in Scotland Rideouts and Meets

    Posted

    I cant believe i got from Clydesdale to Clydebank without getting wet :shock:


    I'm a happy wee bunny, only downer is that i've got the Tiger's battery sitting charging up as we had to jump it earlier, aparantly they like a new one every now and again...but i'll charge it first and see.


    anyone else brave the elements today? - saw a fair few on my way back

    Out And About

    in Scotland Rideouts and Meets

    Posted

    Doubt it Tak. weather looking lousy, if it is I'll be watching the Northwest200 on the BBC website tomorrow

    Weather looks lousy over there as well - was it last year or the year before it was washed out?

    Ill put it on anyway - if its wet my money's on Rutter......

    Thinking of getting leathers advice needed

    in Clothing, Luggage, Accessories and Security

    Posted

    :stupid: get yourself down and try them on - they won't bite you. I don't have waterproof leathers but i can vouch for HG gear (used to work there in another life) the leathers i had were top notch and i've still got the Tuareg gore tex suit which is 7 years old and has performed faultlessly.


    Ratser makes a good point about underlayers for leathers - they make all the difference; EDZ are good and i use one of their all in one suits but i just bought a load of compression tops and windproof stuff ffrom Aldi so i'll need to see how that works out.


    :thumb:

    Any riders around Renfrewshire?

    in Scotland Rideouts and Meets

    Posted

    Hah snap! I managed to get so into the drive up there once that i forgot to check my petrol guage and ran out on the way back! :shock:


    Well soon as the Duke is ready to hit the mean streets of Bonnie Scot i'll pipe up again and we can arange something, sound good?

     

    Funny you should say that - i took the wife to inverary for her birthday a few years back on the ZZR (before the kids) and ran out of petrol at the back enterance to Loch Lomond golf club....was a long wait :shock:

    Spray painting question?

    in Pitstop

    Posted

    So a while ago i painted my frame - was pretty straightforward. Got myself a nice solid petrol tank from the bay of e (99p 8-) ), but painting this is a different ball game. I've sanded it down, filled in the dent and smoothed it over. Its been primed (1.5 litres) and the primer rubbed down with 1200 grit. Now i'm painting it gloss black (non metallic) - the question is, once the paint is on does it need levelled off? do i smooth it down with wet and dry again? do i use a finer grit than 1200?


    Any help muchos appreciated muchachos :D

    Sons of Anarchy

    in General Chat

    Posted

    Just checked the old Twitter account (keep forgetting) and Kurt Sutter (SOA creator) has Steven King as a guest star in one of the early season 3 episodes and he has also signed James Cosmo (Scottish actor) for 8 episodes of series 3 as well.....can't wait till Sept!

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