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The MBA says not to visit bothies, however none of the ones that I have visited in the last few months have been locked (as was suggested they would have been on the MBA website).

But as @gillies days, best take a bivvy.

@bazschmaz Any chance of a clue on this one? I’m stumped.

And then I did the Bealach na Ba at 5am the next morning; just me, more deer than I’ve ever seen in once place before, and some beautiful light from the rising sun.

I absolutely adore Highland cows. This little cutie was chilling at the side of the road near Applecross.

I’m sure you’re well aware but just in case: the section from Fort Augustus to Killin has nowhere to source food unless you stop in Corrour Station House. You’ll also be doing the Corrieyairack Pass (the hard way) so be sure to stock up on snacks!

Semi-NOS?

It’s either new old stock, or it’s not.

It’s a terrible gag to be honest.

I love that photo with the cows.

@hippy @Oliver Schick

Reels in line

I’ve got two! ;)

Is that not @hippy avatar photo?

These are great!

Is that last one of yourself riding? I tried taking some photographs with my cameras app based remote shutter control yesterday but I wasn’t very happy with the results. I found it very hard to time my framing for the shot.

Nice! Where are they taken? The second one has Corrieyairack vibes but I don’t think that’s were it is?

@eskay Thanks for the offer, I’ll keep that in mind :)

Whereabouts were your photos taken? I say this every year, but I need to go home to Wales more often to see my family and cycle.

Nope, Forth Road Bridge. And the other one is Green Lowther.

Couple of recent ones.

Aren’t they normally around £60 new each? So a saving of a tenner, not that bad.

Nice!

Be careful with parts of the HT550 as it gets real radical even for a mountain bike and there’s some large sections of hike-a-bike. I’ve not done it so not sure exactly where that is I’m afraid.

If you’re going to Corrour Station for lunch/ dinner (which I highly recommend) then it’s best to book. Last time I did the Badger Divide it was fully booked out with walkers and the kitchen would only offer me chips. And that was mid-week!

To be honest, the section of your route from Kinloch Laggan to Killin takes in pretty much everything amazing in that area so I wouldn’t bother adding anything from the routes we did (the friend I was riding with created the Badger Divide).

Noice!

Wheels are on backwards though.

Callander to Killin is all on National Cycle and is super nice. If you’re up by Killin I strongly recommend the old hydro road into Glen Lyon, lunch at the Post Office and then loop back on the Ben Lawers road. It’s a road loop and it’s pretty punchy, but it’s superb.

On the west side of Loch Lubnaig is easy going National Cycle Network gravel paths, and on the other side is forestry and landy through Glen Ample. The Glen Ample bit is amazing and is on The Badger Divide.

#UKGRAVEL #ROADSLIKETHESE etc etc

@2slices @giofox

Yeah, it’s a Straight Cut one. Think Ross does them as a custom job, best to email him and find out.

These were the three routes we did, the other two days was just riding out to and from Loch Earn from Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Rannoch Ripper
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/35690460

Lyon Loop
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/35690440

Finglas “Fuck-You-Up”
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/35690473

The Rannoch one is seriously punchy as there’s a huge hikeabike across a bog in the middle. We had to cut out the last 15 or so miles of gravel and blast along the tarmac or we would have been in danger of getting back at midnight. Also, there’s fuck all food stops along the way so you’ll have to carry all your food. Plenty of burns for water.

Sorry to disappoint but my jockey wheels were scrubbed down every morning with a cut-off toothbrush and so remained spotlessly clean during the whole trip.

I guess with a bar end shifter you can shift the whole cassette in one big shift, but I completely agree that the whole not pedalling while changing gear is something you’d have to get used to. And also agree that on new trails where you may not be able to see what’s coming up it may not be the best (although the friend I was riding with knows the area so well that he only checked his Garmin a handful of times over 350ish miles!).

Yeah, there were three of us for one day as another friend came to join for a day trip.

I was against the idea as well but you can set it up with a bar end shifter. And when you’re averaging 10mph on a ride it’s not like not pedalling for a second to change gear is going to be a problem, haha! You can also change gear when you’re stopped which, for someone like me who falls off regularly, is great ;)

He was riding more of a drop bar MTB though, so probably made more sense to have a hub gear on that.

The guy I was riding with runs an Alfine 8 speed. I’m converted. It’s the future.