The Random Rideout Pictures

Wow

 

Over in the Borders today. View over Talla towards Tweeddale:

 

Terrific photo, Dave!!

 

Don’t do the A9. Do this:

The A93

 

I'm familiar with the stretch from Balmoral to Blairgowrie - brilliant road!

 

Still uncharacteristically hot and sunny here in Scotland. Just back from a 150 mile trip today, out of Galloway, across Dumfriesshire into South Lanarkshire and back through the Lowther Hills by the Dalveen Pass. (The Lowther Hills, by the way, don't have nice poetic Gaelic-derived names like most of our Galloway hills. The Lowther names include Cock Hill, Rodger Law and Meikle Shag, so whoever named them was obviously a very rude person. Probably English.) Anyway, here are some photos of the road through the Pass.

 

Looks great - I'm not familiar with that bit of Scotland, only shot through on the motorway...

 

That's what everyone does, I'm pleased to say. Long may it continue...

 

I love that road! Had a good blast up it last month on my way to the highlands. Only my second time on it, the previous time was a good 4 or so years ago, been looking forward to doing it again ever since

 

Was there last month. The locks are amazing and a very pretty village.

 

I hope you have a lovely time, Bikerman. But I'm sorry to read that you're in a CAR!!! The least the weather could do for you is be less brilliant so you wouldn't be wishing you were on a bike instead.

 

Had a run up to Scotland on Sunday.

Old semi-derelict church at Elvanfoot on the A702.



Then down the Dalveen Pass to Carronbridge, Thornhill and sticking with the 702 on to New Galloway...




Tide was out at Wigtown harbour...



Lunch at Stranraer....

...afternoon tea at Clatteringshaws....



.....then back up the Dalveen Pass (god, I LOVE that road!) to Elvanfoot and back home. Two pots of tea at Clatteringshaws meant an emergency stop in the forest for a wee comfort break ..

Depart 05:00, back home around 21:30, 743miles and a good day out in almost perfect weather.

 

When I'm taking the Cairnryan Ferry to NI I always come off the M74 further north at Abington just so I can take the Dalveen Pass back down again!

 

It is a superb road... that queens view road is a peach too, been on it many times. Always the first priority when I come over on the boat

 

Nothing ridiculous about our place names. (Well, maybe Clatteringshaws.) And I speak as one who spent his first few months of life on a farm near Ecclefechan.

(Better than some of my English relatives, though, who came from near Sodding Chipbury, or somewhere like that.)

 

Most of Skye is indeed beautiful, but it's best to go there off-season. It has been a victim of its own success, and is so famous that it's on everyone's bucket list. Avoid the well-known beauty spots like the Fairy Pools and the Coral Beach - there will be nowhere to park at this time of year!

 

Cheers. I'm sure the dog will thank you for it! We had a holiday house in the island for many years, so I know it quite well.

 

Hey, just checking in. I hope everyone is well. I haven't posted or even been on the site for months. Busy with projects around El Rancho Fork Lock and my daughter's house, as well. I've been getting a lot of wheel time in. I really like this little bike.

It's in the shop having some work done on the exhaust. I'm tired of people asking to hear it run - when it is already running. I can't ride for a bit anyway, I torqued my ankle bad, so I'm sitting around nursing the ankle and I thought it would be a good time to get it into the shop.

This shot is from a few day ago at a popular bike destination here in South Jersey, the Sweetwater Marina Restaurant on the Mullica River. The big fella on the left is the Jersey Devil.

 

Eh?