Touring Scotland on a Tmax 530

[Cloudswiper]

Good tips thanks.
Really enjoyed the Tibetan temple road from Lockerbie up to join the 3 Lochs loop back to Moffat.
Today enjoyed the B8074 bypassing Tyndrum. Single track, gravelly but lovely riverside route

[Cloudswiper]

…and today the Ardanamurchan peninsula. Many miles of single track but well worth it.
I do like dash cubby for charging my phone.
The Ram mount arrangement for my Tom Tom gps is working really well. Power from the DIN socket I installed on the battery cover.

[Cloudswiper]

Oops - Ardnamurchan is the spelling.
Anyway - the western most point of uk mainland apparently. Beats Cornwall!

[Cloudswiper]

And now in the Kyle of Lochalsh overlooking the Skye bridge.
TMAX still playing a blinder.
Group of GS riders at Ft William gave me the usual “can’t afford a proper bike?”. I asked them if they had had problems touring on a scooter. They said they had never tried. “Don’t know what your talking about then do you” says I. Left before they could think of a response!

[steve_h80]

The correct thing to do with GS riders is to ask about their shaft drive. They get all defensive about that for some reason
You sound like you're enjoying Big Scotland. It is indeed an awesome place.

[Cloudswiper]

Terrific place. Tomorrow a loop of Skye and tomorrow Applecross pass then on to Ullapool

[MrGrumpy]

The correct thing to do with GS riders is to ask about their shaft drive. They get all defensive about that for some reason

Wait until you come to a traffic jam, and then see who can filter better! There was a latest model BMW R---RT in the workshop the other day...blimey it was ludicrously wide! The sticky out cylinders are bad enough, but the bodywork stretched out far further! It was almost as wide as a car! And the K1600GT is even wider (and heavier!)!

[bikerdezzie]

Moffat road is my favourite, the road in 2008 where i wiped the derision off the faces of my big bike/sport biker mates by well and truly trouncing the lot of them, after them saying we will wait for you at the other end, can we keep our sarnies in ya moped etc etc, i was sitting 10 mins with me lid off before the first one turned up, the look on their faces i will never forget, just outhandled and outclassed them and that was on a bog standard Tmax before i modded the crap out of it.

[Cloudswiper]

Great story!

[Cloudswiper]

My mate is a little less mouthy today after he dropped his GS1200 today on the Applecross pass and needed me to show him the technique to get it back up.