No stay away it's crap, the midges flock to you the second you stop, it always rains, the roads are pothole hell and the west coast is just building site
Ok I have been wet once or twice but the midges aren't all year round and if you pick your time right you'll not have much bother from them.
We'll be going again this year, might even try Wales again but but it's nothing like as good as Scotland.
Alan29 wrote:I'm thinking of Scotland some time this summer. Up to Fort William, across the Lecht and down the other side.
Plan is to wait for a forecast of a few days of fine weather and then book hotels etc it's a bugger being retired!)
Do I take it that everywhere will be booked up by packs of German BMW riders?
No, it will be booked up by Britsh BMW riders....
In truth that's how I plan my trips, get the weather forecasts and when its right then go. I work for myself and have good flexibility. However I much prefer camping, wild if I can and even better wake up camped on a beach on a sunny morning and don't do hotels. I see enough of them for work.
1992 K100LT June 2010 110,000 miles
1984 K100RT July 2013 36,000 miles, 90,000
1983 K100RS Nov 2018 29,000 miles, 58,600 miles
1996 K1100LT Oct 2020 37,990 miles, 48,990 miles
1984 K100 Sprint March 2023 58,000 miles, 62,000 miles
Alan29 wrote:I'm thinking of Scotland some time this summer. Up to Fort William, across the Lecht and down the other side.
Plan is to wait for a forecast of a few days of fine weather and then book hotels etc it's a bugger being retired!)
Do I take it that everywhere will be booked up by packs of German BMW riders?
No, it will be booked up by Britsh BMW riders....
I did 1400 miles in 4 1/2 days last year on a brief visit to Scotland, my first and only ever time (other than test ride) on a BMW and it wasn't even a GS, not even room for ali boxes on the poor little thing ; 0
This year it will be the Enfield and a CBF125, bit slower but we have a few more days.
Living in the central belt sucks, if we could have afforded to stay in Edinburgh or East Lothian, or if South Lanarkshire or Perthshire had been practical, we'd probably still be there, but it is nice to go back to the rest of Scotland as a visitor.
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"Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view" - Obi-Wan Kenobi
Looks more like you got caught short or are dealing with an earlier brown trouser moment.....
Shoulda got the WC model.....
1992 K100LT June 2010 110,000 miles
1984 K100RT July 2013 36,000 miles, 90,000
1983 K100RS Nov 2018 29,000 miles, 58,600 miles
1996 K1100LT Oct 2020 37,990 miles, 48,990 miles
1984 K100 Sprint March 2023 58,000 miles, 62,000 miles
