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Hi folks, I've not posted up here for a while, thought I'd share a November ride out on the CRF1000L Africa twin with you all!
I woke this morning to a white frost and a shower of sleety snow, didn't think it would clear up to get the bike out but boy was I wrong! By lunchtime it was blue skies here in the N.E of Scotland so rolled out the Africa for a blast.
I thought I'd pop up to the Lecht, as there was a flurry of snow down my way I thought I'd check out the ski slopes, see if it was time to break out the snowboard! I headed up through Dufftown, fought the urge to take more distillery photos and opted for Balvenie castle, just above the Glenfiddich distillery (said I'd not mention distilleries or whisky! Lol!)

I then headed up past Glenlivet to Tomintoul and onwards to the Lecht. As you can see, there's a light dusting but no snow for snowboarding yet!

Beautiful views in the winter sunshine looking over toward Deeside

Here's a pic of the dash showing the temp did actually get above freezing! It shows 1c!

The ice wasn't thick enough to hold up me and the CRF! Lol!

Here's a view of Corgarff castle

I then headed back down through Tomintoul and down past the Tomintoul distillery to Glenlivet, past Drumin castle, a stronghold of the legendary Wolf of Badenoch and onwards to Aberlour! Home via the Thomas Telford bridge in Craigellachie and home to Elgin.
And finally a shot of the Thomas Telford bridge in Craigellachie.

A cracking ride out on the Honda CRF1000L Africa twin, almost 10k miles and can't fault the bike. No photos of distilleries were taken,,,, although quite a few were mentioned! Lol! Enjoy!

Humble apologies, seem to be having photo upload issues! I'll try fix it!

FIXED!

Cheers for that Jim.I'm planning a hill walk at Tomnavoulin tomorrow.We were hoping to see some snow but another bright,frosty day forecast. (thumbs)

Nice one Jim. Keep those ski reports coming throughout the season please.

Will do Mike, I'll head up to Cairngorm my next outing, ran out of daylight today!

Good pics Jim, can't beat a winter day ride out for clearing the cobwebs. (thumbs)

africajim wrote:Will do Mike, I'll head up to Cairngorm my next outing, ran out of daylight today!

Ive skied at Glenshee, Cairngorm and Nevis. Never been to the letch but the one I really want to do is Glencoe. Maybe this season!

I've skied Cairngorm and the Lecht many years ago, but this yr I'm going to give snowboarding a bash!
It was great to get out on the Africa twin, I'm not running my MT09 over the winter as it's simply not made for that! I do have old Viagra on the road now, supposed to be my winter hack but at 35yrs old seems a shame to wreck it on salty roads!

Nice one Jim, looks like a great day out. Who's the furry dude on your dash?

Hi Bob, it's a marmot! I was given it at a stop on top of the Col d'Iseran many years ago! Been on all my bikes since! Long story, but I was approached by a marmot on the Stelvio pass, it stood up on its back legs and bared it's teeth at me! Been terrified of them ever since! Lol!