Help for trip to Scotland
 

Spending roughly 6-7 days touring Scotland on the 25th May and looking for advice on places to visit.I will be on a ktm adv and mate on a bmw gs, Will be camping as much as possible so looking for cheap campsites and the best routes to take, we dont have a set plan or route so will be just winging it on a daily basis on advice from people we meet.
We will be travelling up from Swansea on the Friday and possibly staying somewhere in the lakes then heading towards the west coast and making our way around
Cheers

Lakes.... right we know a great site to camp. I'll pm you the details.

Scotland is a big place, north and west is best. Southwest is an real gem, but then you realy have to get north of the m8 belt. You pretty much can't go wrong really. Skye is worth the long ride, a long day from the Lakes in riding terms.

My personal favourites : glen coe, glen shiel, rannoch moor. But there is more to see than any one trip can sustain.

If you want to have a bit ride in the lakes, let me know, not your planned destination but while you are there......

The west coast is great as is Dumfries, but why not break the mold and consider the Cairngorms and the Glens too, hugely underestimated by folks going to Scotland who often make the default choice and "go west". A lot less busy, a lot less midges and it's a lot less wet in the summer.

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Only done it in the camper van but some beautiful scenery. And while you're there, why not a visit to the Nevis Range at Fort Bill where you can hire some mountain bikes?

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With 6-7 days you could come up the centre of the highlands (Glen shee), see the Speyside area, the Cairngorms, head North into the High Highlands then head West and come down the coast (take the small coast roads) to Ullapool and then follow the coast South - Skye, Mull too etc etc and further South as suggested.

I set off at 06.45 this morning following the Spey West - Stunning in the morning Sun - wildlife - and lovely roads! Back to feed the kids their breakfasts.

Cheers for the info guys, will be logging these on google to try and come up with some sort of plan .

GULG, pm replied too and thanks

Cheers Keith, did you save your route by any chance ? got so many good suggestions it's hard to sort out a route now :ytiller:

If /when you hit Glen Coe check out the Clachaig Inn just thru the village - The Red Squirrel campsite is just down the road and is within staggering distance.

Thanks for all the info guys, anyone have any routes saved in gpx format that i can save to my gps for references and some sort of plan

Sorry I'm a paper man.

One of my all time favourite roads from my trip to Scotland in 2010.

After crossing the Skye Bridge we then made our way via the A87 to Invergarry and then the A82 to Ben Nevis.

I really enjoyed the A87. Lots of gentle sweeping curves. Didn't bother changing gear very often, just used the torque of the engine (I was on my GS) and cruised along.

Yes, it's my favourite Scottish ride too, the Five Sisters,,, Loch Gary (and the viewpoint).

I'm getting a bit jealous of all this road trip talk..

I did a similar trip a couple of years ago was a thread on here but looks to have gone. I wanted to go north up the coast right to the top. Basic plan - split the trip up into days, pick out some campsites and do a route in-between that took us off the A-roads and skirted the coast/lochs as much as possible on the wee roads.

We did stay at the campsites on the days I planned, but didn't always stick %100 to the route in-between. Spent two nights in Tayvallich after a long first day and Arisaig (fantastic place) just to chill out, sober up and have a bit of time off the bikes.

Tayvallich http://www.scottishcampingguide.com/...ion=next&n=575

Oban http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/re...asp?revid=6213

Arisaig http://www.scottishcampingguide.com/...=previous&n=72

Applecross

Scourie

Lairg

Roybridge

In the nine days we got to the top and back, and went to some stunning places, no doubt rode right past hundreds of others. Trouble is you're not going to get everywhere in one go.

PM me your email I have some kml files.

Jas ive just done a day trip from glasgow up to oban via the most coastal roads and at 60mph on the Tiger 1050 it was just bliss, i very rarely went above 65-70mph all day, most of the time crusing at 55-65mph. Piccies to come soon with a road map.

How was the trip? - if I remember correctly the weather was stunning around that time.

So good he though he would stay....:thumbleweed:

I rode up the west coast and on up to Durness end of April ,fantastic weather ,took the road over the pass down into Applecross,900 miles in 4 days :icon_thumleft:looking down the pass heres a few pics
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views over to Skye
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Applecross pub
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heading for Ullapool
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beach at Durness http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/DSCF0094.jpg
45 miles of single track road blue skys at 9 in the morning
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Excellent. Scotland great when the weather is good. But dont try to guess when that is.:ninja:

Gods Country :039:

:icon_rendeer: nice trip