After a few snow filled months it was great to be out on the bike.

We decided to tackle a stretch of track (part of the old military roads in this area dating back to the 1700s) that had us beat while riding previous bikes, me on a Tiger and Jim on his Varadero. We had to manhandle the bulky lumps out of this particularly wet, boggy moss covered section. We decided to have another go on the more slender Teneres and see how we would get on. Predictably we fared a lot better, even the TKCs handled it but with a few oh s..t moments. What can I say about the Mitas C02s that I haven't said before? - no stoppin them - brilliant on the soft but by the sounds of it would not want to ride on them on wet tarmac.








Theres a lot of wartime history around this area so we decided to take a trip up to Boyndie airfield near Banff.
We managed to get onto the site and ride down all three runways and have a look around a few old buildings including the control tower. During WW2 Norwegian and British squadrons flying Beaufighters and Mosquitos were based here and attacked German shipping in the North Atlantic and Norwegian harbours.








A quick visit to Findlater castle (ruins of) and a stop off at Portsoy harbour for steak pies - the best I have ever tasted, made even better as Jim paid! Portsoy is an old fishing harbour with a boat festival every year - clinker sailing boats and all that





Another track along the coast and a stop at Sandend - a good spot for surfing when the swell is up.

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