Featured Touring Scotland Tour 2022

Stunning.

 

Thanks for all terrific photos, @Dougie D! It looks like you guys made up a good group and had lots of great riding and fun. You certainly had some fantastic scenery. There's so much green it hurts my "desert rat" eyes.

 

I did this back in about 1990......
We were going down to Cornwall for a week on a Kawasaki GT 750 but couldn't find a dog sitter so trained our Jack Russel, with dog treats, to jump in and out of the top box on the floor. I was in the middle of tiling the kitchen and so a grout pot lid served as a raincover and the dogs head could pass through the cut hole in the top box lid but not its shoulders hence if was retained.
A quick test ride around the local streets with the then wife, following in the car to observe, and we were good to go.
It travelled as far south as down to the Lizard Point and as far North as the Orkneys and was never a problem.
I even got pulled in Edinburgh for speeding by a plain ROVER 216 police car after they said they'd been chasing me 5 miles and they didn't say a word about the dog
Probably decided if wasn't a good idea for the paperwork it would create

 

That all looked like one hell of a brilliant trip.

 

not long after it started to rain, a bit wet at Laggan dam
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Seems like it always rains at Laggan Dam.

 

Not when I was there a few weeks ago...

 

Top effort @Dougie D

 

It was a brilliant trip as Scotland always is! The Scottish roads are fun even in the wet although we did get some dry spells too. Good company, good craic was had, and some memorable events thrown into the mix
Cheers @Dougie D for organising another cracker

 

Taking an evening stroll down by the river in Callander where we all met up.



Walking off a lovely steak pie if my memory serves me well.

 

The clock tower in Dufftown and the Commercial Hotel where some of us stopped on the second night. The breakfast here got a 10/10 off me and Steve @Wessa

 

Trust you to rate the food, Andy... bless you...

 

A moody view from mine and @Wessa 's digs in Ullapool the Loch Broom Lodge and a pic of the TV lounge. A mile or so out of town but very comfortable and a friendly host. We cooked our own meal in the kitchen and had roast chicken, salad and sour dough bread. A welcome change from pub/restaurant food.

 

What a terrific trip and fantastic photos, @Dougie D! And I especially admire your determination to get to the dentist AND then get your camera and rejoin the group. I particularly like the photo of all the guys sitting out on the deck looking all happy and relaxed.

 

Perhaps it's no coincidence that there's a dam there, Sprinter.

 

It was sunny because you were in a car and not out in the open on a bike, @Vulpes. Same principle as the one where if you don't bring your rain gear on a motorcycle trip it will most certainly rain and vice versa.