Kin great weekend in spite of weather.
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:10 pm
Another 500 miles knocked up this weekend, from Jedburgh up to Fort William (Friday pm) via Knockhill, Gleneagles, Crieff, lochearnhead, Crianlarich, Tyndum and The Mighty Glencoe all in fantastic clear skies!!. Saturday was different though absolutely pisshed doon from dawn till dusk as we ploughed on up the A87 (corker of a road coming down to and along Loch Duich) up and over to the Applecross Inn for Lunch and respite from Scotch Mist /Fog/Pea soup/ Blinding rain, gale force winds and more rain. Braved the pass again (could see where I was going this time as i put my pinlock anti mist visor in) and we blatted over to Skye and on to Portree to our Hotel. Skye looked more like Jurassic Park, (what we saw of it) The bike gets better every mile i rack up on it, the Michelins Pilot powers ace in the wet despite some sporty cornering with missus as pillion and still had the confidence in the handling to pass any bike making lesser progress. Took much the same route back to Jed but avoided Forth Bridge and came down to M9 from Calender. Anyone wanting do Scottish Highlands via Borders and wants this route in more detail send me a pm. You will not be dis-appointed. What a brilliant weekend we had!
GPS took me straight south past Keilder water, after that the visibility was poor, and the wind was strong, so we picked up the motorway around Penrith, and plodded home.
