Scotland Day 2 - My Favourite Roads
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Day 2 of our Scottish trip takes us from Striling all the way up to Applecross and then back down to our hotel covering around 320 miles. What an amazing day!
Full route below.
Day 3 coming soon…
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Stirling - A9 - A9099 - A93 - Breamar - A93 - B976 - A939 - A95 - A9 - Inverness - A835 - A832 - A896 - Shieldag - Coast road? Applecross - A896 - Hotel
If you could choose any bike to ride this route, what would you choose and why? Please subscribe 😊
Anything with a comfy seat. My gsr kills me after about an hour lol
😂 Comfort is key I think on a ride like this. What GSXR do you have? 😊
@@TyresNTorque it's a GSR 600, a slightly slower GSXR
Ahh ok sorry, I bet it’s not slow though! I haven’t ridden a GSR or a GSXr before - not sure my 6’2 frame would be comfortable on a sports bike 😳
@@TyresNTorque no it still shifts when you need it too lol. You'll be ok on a big litre bike, I feel the same about these big touring bikes, but I do want something for going touring on
Beautiful video❤😊
It is amazing up there. Such a great place to ride 😊 🏍️
I've got a honda cb500x but last year did a 3000 mile round trip from Shetland to Somerset and back on a zontes zt125g1, fully .aden with panniers, top box and camping gear. 20 litre tank gave me over 300 miles to the tank. Comfortable and managed all the passes and mountains. Cairngorm, Applecross Pass, Cumbria, Peak District, Wales, Yorkshire moors plus loads more. Epic. I'm also over 60 and disabled. If I still had that bike I think I'd prefer it to the honda but would love a royal Enfield or similar. Black is the best colour for a bike !
That sounds great! 😊 I have heard nothing but good things about the CB500X. I did look at one before the Transalp, but the Transalp suited me a little more as it is a bigger bike.
Which Royal Enfield would you go for? They do some great looking bikes.
The black does look brilliant, but I do like them all. 😊
@TyresNTorque It's a 2018 cb500x but is getting hammered by the gale force winds and sea spray parked where I live. Need a completely blacked bike with zero chrome. Shotgun 650 or Scram 411 are current favourites. The guerilla looks nice, but the fuel tank is too small to be useful. I've yet to go south to do any test rides. Also need used as cheaper! Need a bike that thinks it's a land-rover
Ohh no, where are you based?
I do love the look of the Scram 👌 But I do like the look of most of their bikes to be honest. I have never ridden a Royal Enfield though but I have sat on a super meteor. It was like sitting in an arm chair 👌 Very comfortable! Maybe not a bike for being next to the coast though 😞
@@TyresNTorque Shetland, always windy. Perhaps not the best place to be a biker!
Ohh wow. That’s very remote 😳 I presume it’s not a long trip round the island?
Do you have any trips planned?
uau... nice content :)
Thank you very much 😊
Haven't done much riding in Scotland, only cummuting to work into Edinburgh, off to Glencoe in August for a couple days with a mate from Leeds and really looking forward to it.
I hope you enjoy your trip 😊 I presume you are staying in Glencoe? There are some great roads that way with fantastic views 😊 Do you plan on going anywhere else?
@@TyresNTorque Yeah camping in Glencoe, will attempt a couple of loops to Oban and Glenfinnan viaduct hopefully.
@@cakey8399 Please let me know how you get on 😊 I hope you had some nice weather like we did 🙏☀️ Is it just the 2 of you going?
@@TyresNTorque will do, hoping to get some video of the trip. Will stick it up if I can hone my mediocre editing skills. Yeah just the two days for me, kids back to school that week. My mate from Leeds will be camping a second night
Ahh ok and that sounds good. Please can you send me a link if you put something together? 😊
Fair play for looking out for that biker. Yamaha Tracer 7GT (I did the route in April on one). And your dad's bike is still the best colour!
Only take a few minutes out of a ride to stop 😊
Ohh very nice, I hope you had nice weather like we did?
Reluctantly I will pass the message on 😡 😂😂 To be honest I would have any of the 3 colours, I think they all look great 😊
Choice of bike of this trip.... NC750X DCT..Good weather protection, economical, fast enough and very useful when I got home and refused to hand it back.
Frunk for Camera gear and panniers for the rest of my stuff. I'd add a comfortable seat and running lights. Job done.
I was tempted by the NC750 before I purchased my Transalp. It look like a fantastic and super practical bike 😊
When you say “hand it back” did you have it on a long term demo?
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@@TyresNTorque Its a hypothetical motorcycle which I might in theory now want to hand back. :D
Enjoying the Scottland stuff, weather and bikes immensely... and sub'd.
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Doing the NC500 in September. I would choose my bike 😂 a Transalp. What else?? Great videos. Stunning scenery. Thank you 😊
Hello 👋 Thank you very much for the feedback and for your comment! 😊
Have you done the NC500 before?
I suppose it’s a silly question really… The Transalp wins every time 👌 Which colour do you have? 😊
Nope. Never been to UK on a bike. Am English but live in France. My Transalp is the red, white and blue one. Had it since January. Done 4000km. Love it.
The best colour! 😊 I’m glad you are enjoying the bike. I absolutely love mine.
I really hope you enjoy Scotland as much as I did / do. The roads and scenery is fantastic, I hope you have nice weather like we did ☀️
Are you planning on a longer trip in the UK or will you be riding straight up to the NC?
Beautiful scenery mate👍 Spent a couple of weeks in Scotland some years back...enjoyed it.
Thank you 😊 We were very lucky to have 3 days of sunshine when we went. I just hope it’s the same on our next trip 🙏
That’s great 😊 Where did you go when you went up to Scotland?
@@TyresNTorque some years back we drove from London to Lands End and up to John O Groats. Our Scotland loop roughly was Glasgow up to the coast, Thurso, Aberdeen and ended in Edinburgh. We throughly enjoyed the more remote parts of Scotland taking about 2 weeks. It was awesome.
Sounds like a brilliant trip! A long ride / drive. There are some fantastic roads that way, I have only been to John O Groats once and it was a great trip 😊
What do you ride if you don’t mind me asking?
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@@TyresNTorque Already subbed. That trip was 2014 with the kids, hire car. Would be awesome on a bike. CRF250 Rally which is now 7 years old with 52,000k's. Just completed a 3,000k outback trip with bikes /4wd's.
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That’s amazing! I would love a CRF or even an old XR. The rally looks great, I really like the front headlight set up. Different, but I like it 😊
Did the 4X4s carry your luggage or did you have it with you on the bike?
You need to sort y'selves out with some Cardos, great bits of kit. None of that pointing to ya tank malarkey, just tell each other over the intercom.
He snores like me😂
That sounds like a great idea. Thank you! I might look like some kind of robot with the camera, mic and an intercom system on my helmet though 😂
His snoring was so bad 😳😳😳😂😂😂
Hi nice ride and video. Some stunning views in Scotland. Ohh tell your dad i like your bike colour best lol.😄😃 Yes have Subscribe too
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I will let him know 😊 Have you ridden up in Scotland before?
@@TyresNTorque nope well not on a bike.
If you can I would definitely recommend doing it on a bike 😊 It is such a fantastic route!
Maybe one for the 390?
Thinking a triumph tiger 900 gt pro would be a good bike for that route but at the end of the day you can ride that route on any bike, as people have shown in the many videos that are available on the subject
That is very true 😊 As long as you are having fun, then does it matter?
I have never ridden a Tiger before, I hear the inline triple engine has a very different feel and performance to an inline four or parallel twin. Have you ridden one before?
Maybe a trip for your CBR650F? 😊
@@TyresNTorque no I have never ridden the tiger before but I have sat on one and they seem quite manageable height wise (I’m a short arse) but then again so does the Africa twin, have been looking at trading it in for something else just can’t decide what I want lol. Have been up there on the Honda before did the west coast all the way to Durness and then back down the centre to Lairg 👍👍
Haha, there is such a huge choice of great bikes, it’s a hard decision 😂
Amazing, did you ride on your own? Nice weather I hope?
@@TyresNTorque no it’s started off there was nine of us and then three boys caught us up and that made 12, one had to bale out and go home when we reached Ullapool, and when we reached Durness me and one other guy camped there and the others carried on to Thurso because they didn’t want to camp. Got a mix of weather, couldn’t see two feet in front of us going over the Bealach na ba and it was drizzly and cold at night but other than that got a couple of dry days
That’s great you have a large group who also ride 😊 I’m glad you at least had some good weather on the trip too!
Any plans for another trip?
The aig at the end of Shieldaig is pronounced similar to aid but with a g.
Thank you for this 😊 I knew I would pronounce something wrong at some point 😂 I presume you are based in Scotland?
@@TyresNTorque a little bit north of Inverness
That’s amazing! So many nice places and roads not far from you 😊 Do you have a favourite location / road to ride?
@@TyresNTorque Never had a bike, but since retiring it's crossed my mind. Something like a Honda super cub 125 for fine days, and my level of expertise.
I haven’t ridden a super cub before, they look cool though 😊
As long as it puts a smile on your face (which I am sure it will) then that’s all that matters 😊
You should try the Kintyre 66
I haven’t heard of this before, where does it start and finish? 🤔
@@TyresNTorque There's a map on Google, it's a loop of the Mull of Kintyre starting from Talbert down to Campbeltown and then back up to Tarbert. I drove from Glasgow to Portavadi and got the short ferry crossing to Tarbert, the scenery is stunning. If you do go don't miss the B roads that take you from Campbeltown to the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse it's jaw dropping
Proper blokes snore.....😂
😂😂 It was funny for the first 10 minutes… but all night both nights wasn’t fun 😳😂
Have you been up that way?
Great video lovely scenery. I've got the transalp, how did you find it as a touring machine.
Hello Michael. Thank you for the feedback. The scenery was fantastic, we were very lucky we had such nice weather 😊
For touring and munching up some miles - absolute brilliant! Comfortable, smooth, reliable, more than enough grunt and power to have fun and very economical. To be honest I have absolutely nothing to complain about with the new Transalp 😊
This is my second tour on this bike and it has ran faultlessly both times. Are you planning a trip?
@@TyresNTorque Unfortunately not. Can I ask how you find the throttle at low speed, any jerkiness.
At slower speeds the bike isn’t super smooth but I wouldn’t say it is much different to any other bike I have ridden. I have found if I am in traffic, that putting the bike in rain mode helps to keep things smooth as the throttle response is calmed down 😊
I have heard a lot of people say it can be jerky and jumpy at tick over when moving slow but I haven’t found this to be the case.
Maybe each bike is slightly different? I’m not sure 🤔