A wee slideshow

[Badger]

of a trip i did round Scotland in 2005 on my lonesome, as you can see i had a blast giggling inside my helmet all the time, is this the first sign? hairy palms next on the agenda then:thumbup click on the link, BTW silver ones are superior and far far faster:nana

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[knotty]

wow i wanna be there !!!!

[Badger]

wow i wanna be there !!!! Scotland is good when the weather is kind:biggrin

[cornhoolio]

here are some more without bikes Knotty, Scotland is good when the weather is kind:biggrin

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y61/smokinrsvr/Scotland%20Sept%2006/?action=view&current=Dsc01173.jpg&slideshow=true&interval=6


I agree, we must have some of the best (and worst :biggrin) biking roads in the country, just a pity the weather is a wee bit lacking sometimes.

Some beautiful photos of some of Scotlands best scenery, cheers.

Ian

[Badger]

I agree, we must have some of the best (and worst :biggrin) biking roads in the country, just a pity the weather is a wee bit lacking sometimes.

Some beautiful photos of some of Scotlands best scenery, cheers.

Ian

Glad you enjoyed them mate, i enjoyed taking them:thumbup

Iain (the proper spelling:biggrin)

[DMNTD]

VERY nice pic's mate! Very good camera skills sir :thumbup

[Featch]

I just love the West Coast of Scotland. It's just one of the best bits of the planet. Once rode to Cape Wrath on my bicycle!

Not been for a few years though. I reckon it'll be good Tuono country though:bwtiller

[Badger]

Thought i would bring this back to the top for the new peeps, just to give you a taster of what Scotland has to offer us:thumbup

[ginga]

WOW ! those pictures just made me move nearer the screen and just stare....i normaly only do that at porn :biggrin.

what a wonderful place to be ....when the sun's out

[Arleyal]

Excellent camera work.Top pics.rEGARDS al

[rsvr47]

WOW ! those pictures just made me move nearer the screen and just stare....i normaly only do that at porn :biggrin.

what a wonderful place to be ....when the sun's out

the sun:confused he is in scotland:lol:lol:lol

[Pumpkin]

Very cool pics :thumbup

I was planning on doing a solo trip to Scotland last summer but decided to go to the Alps because the weather was really aweful.. It's on the very top of my list though :)

[rsvr48]

Wow nice pics, i think a trip upto Scotland is looking good for the summer:thumbup

[sharky]

A few of us done Scotland this year in June,torrential rain for 4 days would have been fantastic in the dry,and on the major roads we've never seen so many bloody speed camera's but good fun all the same.

[Badger]

If any of you guys fancy a trip round Scotland this year at the end of June beginning of July, i have room for a couple of peeps, it is an Aprilia trip for dedicated Mille men/girls, i do all the organising and road routes, you just turn up and let me look after you, there is no profit in it for me, i have been doing this for years for like minded peeps.

So if you fancy a trip this year with a bunch of like minded lads just let me know, i already have all the hotels booked for the 7 that are going, two dropped out due to job uncertainty so there are two places going if ya fancy it.

Some are coming from Portsmouth, Essex and Ipswich so you can hook up en route with these lads.

I can guarantee you will have a blast:thumbup

Some pics from last year

some group pics outside the Kylesku Hotel, an awesome place, we spend a couple of nights here so you don't have to carry luggage the next day

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what a place for a beer, this is outside the Kylesku Hotel

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the hotel at Kylesku

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there is a lot of silly goings on on the trip, great craic, seafood platter in Blues bath

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jug of water to wake him up

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time for a leg stretch

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me trying to get into a T shirt for a six year old, we had a T shirt presentation that nobody knew about apart from me and Blue, what a laugh, the things on the shirts were hilarious and we wore them the rest of the trip

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managed it in the end

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Blues T shirt, we were giving him stick about trailing his throttle in corners, so i did one for him, his GF sent me the pic of him dressed as a bee, he is paranoid about bees coming near him

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it reads:-

Full speed ahead to 167
yes,yes,yes, i'm in biking heaven
bends ahead upon the horizon
speed i will have to be downsizin
whilst in the corner i lose my bottle
that's why they call me "Trailing Throttle"

The craic was tops

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The troop at Eilan Donan castle

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if you ever see this signpost, you will be in biking bliss

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after a long days ride it was time to scare the locals

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even scarier, a dip outside the hotel in the crystal clear water, Steve likes his food BTW

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So if you have not been to this fine country yet

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here is your opportunity to do it and be looked after by me:biggrin

[Sprocker]

I'm on holiday in France then ...that would have been great :thumbup

[rockdoctor]

Yep have to agree, scotland is riding heaven, provided the weather is good and not to many tourists around!
Nice pics :D

[Flick]

Very cool pics :thumbup

I was planning on doing a solo trip to Scotland last summer but decided to go to the Alps because the weather was really aweful.. It's on the very top of my list though :)

Solo... you? What a waste of a view:inlove

[Badger]

never seen so many bloody speed camera's but good fun all the same.

You need to know what roads Sharky, like anywhere there is a lot of traffic you get cameras, i don't go there unless i can help it:thumbup

[Flick]

Fantastic pics, did you re-run the roads a few times?

[V8-Powered]

Looks wonderful - Shame that Scotchland is such a long journey to get to......

Do you think EasyJet will let me take my bike as luggage?

[heroblob]

What part of scotland do you cover Badger. i did a week trip back in 2002 on the ZX9R, we covered most of the area from sterlin to oben to dalwine to drumnadrogit. never managed north of lock ness.

[Badger]

What part of scotland do you cover Badger. i did a week trip back in 2002 on the ZX9R, we covered most of the area from sterlin to oben to dalwine to drumnadrogit. never managed north of lock ness.

Have a read at this thread mate, best roads are on the west and beyond Fort William right up to Durness (Cape Wrath):thumbup

http://www.bikersoracle.com/rsv/forum/showthread.php?t=7932

If you fancy it let me know:biggrin

[ross.niven]

great pics badger,:thumbup


Seeing as I also live in Scotland I definately need to get out and do things like that!!!however I'm terrible at not getting round to things!!

[Badger]

great pics badger,:thumbup


Seeing as I also live in Scotland I definately need to get out and do things like that!!!however I'm terrible at not getting round to things!!

Life is not a dress rehearsal Ross, you just have to put things into perspective and fit some fun stuff in mate:thumbup

[Badger]

Looks wonderful - Shame that Scotchland is such a long journey to get to......

Do you think EasyJet will let me take my bike as luggage?

MitchV60 is coming from Essex, it is a long way, but the lads reckon it is well worth the effort:biggrin

Flick, you don't need to re-run them, the roads are like a 100 mile long track day, there are some sections we do again, but there are soooooooo many good roads you don't need to do re-runs:biggrin

[heroblob]

when i came up before, we stayed in the york dales for one night and then on to the digs at port of menteith on day two. was a very enjoyable ride and due to arriving in the dales just after lunch, we managed to drop the luggage off and have a good ride round the dales as well. the trip home was very different. pissed of rain most of the way and we did the whole run in one day. sterlin to canvey island in 9 hours. we were in absaloute agony by the time we got home and that was stopping every 100miles or so for a propper break/fuel. wouldn't do it in on hit again.

[heroblob]

read the route plan, and recocnised some of the roads. spean bridge to penrith was quite a good road as i remember, as was the run from fort william to drumnedroget, (poor spelling). A84 and A85 were nice, road over glen coe was fast. roads around loch long, loch awe and inveraray were also excellent. rest and be thankfull was were a visit the man that runs the burger van in the car park was a southerner. does the piper still play in the carpark on glen coe above the bridge half way across.
memories such wounderfull memories just had to dig the photos out and have another look. and to top it off a whole week and no rain, until the ride home that is.

[Badger]

The majority of the roads you mention are very popular biking roads and are pretty heavily policed at weekends (got nicked myself for wheelying outside Inverary), the piper is usually there when the tourists are about, Glencoe is very fast but it has it's very own helicopter now just for us:rant

The best roads start at Invergarry to Skye, then from there we head up the west coast to Gairloch then Ullapool and right up to Cape Wrath, you would not believe how amazing the roads are right up there, go before the middle of July to avoid the tourists, you will hardly see a car for miles sometimes, loads of open corners you can see through so you can really commit to them, wish i was there now:pirate

That was an endurance ride in the rain you did:eek:

[J77]

I could be up for a smidge of that.
Had some time on the roads north of the wall and they are fantastic. I live in Kendal and my Dad lives in Berwick on Tweed,, the A7 from Carlisle up to Berwick is stunning! (A6 from Kendal to Carlisle isn`t too bad either:devious)

[Badger]

I could be up for a smidge of that.
Had some time on the roads north of the wall and they are fantastic. I live in Kendal and my Dad lives in Berwick on Tweed,, the A7 from Carlisle up to Berwick is stunning! (A6 from Kendal to Carlisle isn`t too bad either:devious)

If you fancy it bud then let me know soon as i have the hotels booked for the 7 that are going, most of the hotels are small and i need to make sure we all get a room.

Let me know soon if you are:thumbup

[V8-Powered]

MitchV60 is coming from Essex, it is a long way, but the lads reckon it is well worth the effort:biggrin

I was sorely tempted to add my name to the list over on Bikers Oracle.....
Should have done it really, especially as it looks like I have been let down for a trip to Assen this year:jack

[Badger]

I was sorely tempted to add my name to the list over on Bikers Oracle.....
Should have done it really, especially as it looks like I have been let down for a trip to Assen this year:jack

Not to late mate, i have one more bod interested, so go for it, you will have a laugh, and could travel with Mitch and Griff, oh and Silvermille.

Go on you know you want to:thumbup

[DEK426]

Cheers Badger:photos Are 1st Class.
Hope To Enjoy Them Roads I Cant Wait.you Didn,t Give The Tyres Too Much Hammer Though Suppose You Wrer Just Taking In The Views.(joking?)thanks Again Mate.

[DEK426]

Badger Its Dek 426::it Seems I Hit A Sleeping Elephant??
Its A Pitty I Have A Tuono,i,d Be Able To Fill The 2 Spaces I Reckon.
But We Are Banned.due To Not Riding Millie.s.
Maybe Give You A Shout Later In Year,if We Manage To Do The Run.
Work Commitments And All That(need A Lottery Win And Work Can Fcuk).

[Badger]

Badger Its Dek 426::it Seems I Hit A Sleeping Elephant??
Its A Pitty I Have A Tuono,i,d Be Able To Fill The 2 Spaces I Reckon.
But We Are Banned.due To Not Riding Millie.s.
Maybe Give You A Shout Later In Year,if We Manage To Do The Run.
Work Commitments And All That(need A Lottery Win And Work Can Fcuk).

Tiz open to Aprilia riders mate:thumbup

Welcome to the site bud, BTW your posts are a nightmare to read with those capitals at the start of each word:pirate