Speyside Whisky Cycling Tour mark 2

[itsbruce]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/sets/72157644974396943/

So I plan to run at least one repeat of the Speyside distilleries cycling tour I led last year. You can see how it went (and how beautiful the region I grew up in) from the Flickr album. It was a three day event. Our planned routes (from which we deviated a little here and there): http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4801639 http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4822176 http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4872658 . We took an overnight train from London to Aberdeen arriving Saturday morning and caught a train from Keith early on Monday afternoon, with a change at Aberdeen. As you can see from the gradient charts, the Grampian highlands are not *flat* but rarely steep and quite doable on a fixed gear (no challenge to geared bikes at all).

So it's time for me to start planning this. Who is interested? Note: the buff guy who keeps taking his shirt off won't be along. Cocktail stops are a certainty, however.

No fixed date yet so I haven't put up an actual event yet. That will grow from responses to this thread (although I am also recruiting elsewhere).

 

[PADDY]

Just seen this Bruce. Looks great! I was up in Glen Shiel / Glen Coe up to Skye and then down into Oban area a few weeks ago. Marvellous cycling, though a fair amount of snow still up in the high ground.

 

[sergejvandervreede]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/sets/72157644974396943/

So I plan to run at least one repeat of the Speyside distilleries cycling tour I led last year. You can see how it went (and how beautiful the region I grew up in) from the Flickr album. It was a three day event. Our planned routes (from which we deviated a little here and there): http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4801639 http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4822176 http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4872658 . We took an overnight train from London to Aberdeen arriving Saturday morning and caught a train from Keith early on Monday afternoon, with a change at Aberdeen. As you can see from the gradient charts, the Grampian highlands are not *flat* but rarely steep and quite doable on a fixed gear (no challenge to geared bikes at all).

So it's time for me to start planning this. Who is interested? Note: the buff guy who keeps taking his shirt off won't be along. Cocktail stops are a certainty, however.

No fixed date yet so I haven't put up an actual event yet. That will grow from responses to this thread (although I am also recruiting elsewhere).

Hi Bruce, I would be interested. Pretty sure my brother-in-law would be too.