Simply, is it possible to cycle the Dornoch Firth Bridge on the A9?
Thanks.
Its a single carraigeway A road so I don't see why not. It doesn't have a footpath so it would have to be on the road with the rest of the traffic.
The alternative route via Bonar Bridge is one hell of a detour!
I don't know for sure but its a normal A road at that point is it not?
Looking on google streetview its an ordinary A road - nothing about bikes on any signs
Yes it's possible, but its not the most pleasant of roads. If you're coming from the South, it's better to use the B9176 from Alness down to Bonar Bridge. Unfortunately, that rules out the use of the Cromarty-Nigg* ferry.
Is this a LEJoG/JoGLE route issue?
* PS - what do you call people who come from Nigg?
Eching druidh, it's [possible but not pleasant.
Quite narrow, and motorists take it fast.
If you really want to do it, I'd suggest you try and do it some time quiet.
[i]* PS - what do you call people who come from Nigg? [/i]
Nigglerites
I don't think it is that narrow actually, the section after it to Tain is relatively wide anyway. I drove it twice last week so should remember, loads of cyclists heading north doing lejog.
Thanks for that folks, I didn't want to get 5 other tired and hungry souls to it to have to do a whopper detour..!
That'll be Teuchters Druidh
yea should be fine over the bridge, there is a hard strip (1m strip beyond the white egde line) and am sure the lane widths will be alot wider than other sections further north. It's the A9 trunk road all the way to Scrabster. The carriageway does narrow north of Clashmore (about 3km north of the bridge)
Cant say i gave it a second thought last year when i did it .
Seemed quite wide iirc compared to some of the roads round aberdeen that is !
That route was fine for me in 2009 too-unlike the mile or so section of motorway outside Glasgow airport that we ended up riding on (thankfully on a Sunday morning).