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Distance: 270 Miles
After another really great nights kip and a hearty breakfast, we packed up the bikes again for the final leg home.
Plan for the day was to stop in at Kendal in the lake District again so Towny could pick up some Kendal Mint Cake for his good lady and, try and [...]

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Distance: 290 miles
After a surprisingly good night’s rest in the tent, I woke up about 7.30 a.m. with the thought of a bacon and egg bap and a cuppa well and truly planted in my mind. Towny was already out of his tent and doing his usual OCD shower routine so I decided to get [...]

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Distance: Approx 185 miles
Route: Moffat > Stirling > Crianlarich > Glencoe > Kinlochleven > Fort William > Glen Nevis
After a fantastic nights sleep and a really good breakfast at the hotel, we quickly packed up our gear and loaded the bikes up ready for the off. Plan for today was to ride from [...]

Distance: 330 miles
Route:Great Malvern, Lake Windermere, Hartside Pass and Moffat
Setting off at 8.30 a.m. I met up with Towny on the M5 for the trip north. The journey was pretty uneventful on the M5 but just before we hit the M6, major gridlock due to an accident about 10 miles up the motorway Luckily with the [...]

With the winter rapidly approaching, I had been thinking about doing a quick 4 day tour of the Scottish Highlands for some time and giving the bike a good run before it goes into winter storage in a few months time. I was hanging fire for a reasonable weather forecast at the last minute before going as, even [...]