would love some sample routes ton to drool over 🙂
suitable on my crosser with guards+rack and land cruisers ?
Warning ...I snore
Me too, but I have earplugs. 😈
snore .. hell yeah
There's an old scottish treatment for snoring that may work, it involves a bottle of whisky.
Drink it or bash over head with it?
Well?….. if the drinking of it doesn't offer a cure we always have the heavy empty bottle left………...
There's an old scottish treatment for snoring that may work, it involves a bottle of whisky
Snorer plies everybody else with whisky to the point they don't give a fig.
I like the sound of this. It would be good to meet some of you folk and D&G is a part of Scotland I've not seen much of. I'd be looking for a train or a lift down there. What's the nearest train station?
[quote=stumpy_m4 ]Oh yeah .. 276 miles from me !!!!220 for me. 4.5hr drive.
Nearest train station if you are heading from the south is Dumfries (about 50 miles away) but if you could all get organised and get to Dumfries on the same train i could prob pick you's up in the transit and take you to the hostel, i guess they'll be limited places on the trains for bikes (if any) so better to check for everyone before booking.
(That's if i've not buggered off to cyprus with the bike, I'm up at Aviemore from the 4th April for a weeks playing about and at some point very soon after i get back i had planned to be in cyprus - still not 100% decided on flight dates yet)
dates good for me, fairly flexible if needs be.
😀
Working 🙄
There is an Enterprise van hire behind the station in Dumfries and another on the station platform, Glenrental I think?
[url= http://gallowaycycling.co.uk/ ]Robin might be able to help with transport or I know a man with a van[/url]
*Piemonster registers his interest*
A lurker registering interest in putting faces to forum names, whilst considering the 452 mile 7 hour journey! 😯
MUTDZ
Ooo, that's the weekend of my 40th... 😆
Ton : What's the route you had planned out?
@ moreupsthandownz ... Thats one hell of a drive 😯 ... mines virually up the road compared to that !
Ton : What's the route you had planned out?
somafunk, had a route to port william, whithorn and wigtown penned for 1 day, and the glen trool circuit for the next.
both are supposed to be quite nice.
Sounds like a wizard wheeze, big 'un. I'll check my rota.
Yeah that's the routes i had initially thought of above - I've plotted them on Viewranger and made them public so i'll try and post them up below.
The Wigtown route comes out at 65 miles and the Glentrool/Gatehouse viaduct route comes out at 75 miles. Quite a distance but knocking 10 or 20 miles off either route is easy to do without compromising the riding or the scenery too much.
[url= http://my.viewranger.com/user/routes/edit/394275 ]75 mile Glentrool/Gatehouse Viaduct route[/url]
[url= http://my.viewranger.com/user/routes/edit/394261 ]65 mile Wigtown route[/url]
I'm obviously logged in to Viewranger so you may have to check the above links work.
i plotted them both at under 50 miles, much more enjoyable for a social weekend.
you need to log in to see them and I am not a member [ not a moan just information]
ton / soma; Corse of Slakes would be a return option for Route 2?
junkyard : I'll try and fix it now, I've just edited my routes for the best direction of travel/scenery/desolate roads/possible cafe stop etc so sat is 56miles and sunday is 46 miles so i guess they might be pretty similar to yours ton.
What did you plan the routes on Ton ?
Prefer the sound of under 50 miles a day, but will wait to see the route etc
Desolate roads FTW
Hmmm?….I've only ever used viewranger on my phone so i dunno how to post a route on here so everyone can see it - I could email the viewranger route to someone with the app who knows how to post it though - anyone know what they are doing/not as thick as me?.
Not to piss on anyones fire, but shouldnt we wait and see what route Ton has sorted , after all it was Tons idea this ride.
Yeah totally agree, that's why i asked ton to see what route he has planned, I was just offering a couple of routes as i've biked every possible route in this area over the past 20+ years and depending on how you tackle certain areas it can mean a long gentle climb for a long downhill or a steep bastard of a climb for a steep/short downhill before immediately having to climb again
Be interesting to see Ton and somafunk standing side by side 😉
mine and somafunks route sound more or less the same, or as near as dammit.
when i get a hostel headsup i will let you know.
@ stumpy_m4 , exactly! One of life's adventures is how I'll view it
right then people, just got a email back from minnigaff youth hostel.
it is available on the dates above.
we can book it complete for sole use.
it sleeps 26.
price per night for a Friday and Saturday night is £295 per night
price for sunday night is £250
so I need a list of deffo's if you are coming. to my email
thoss20@hotmail.co.uk
What's the plan?
Arrive Friday
Ride Sat
Eat/drink
Ride Sun
Go home?
Just wondering how many are looking to stay Sunday night too (I wasn't)
I was planning to stay sunday too. but Friday and Saturday will suffice if nobody wants to stay sunday.
Ton ygm
Sounds cool! Let me check with the missus, but count me in as a provisional yes. Will email confirmation later.
I'd be looking at Friday and Saturday night, and home Sunday evening, after a Sunday ride.
YGM, Ton.
YGM - who have we got working on the weather?
and then there were 5!!
come on people, it might even be fun.
also, if anyone wants to come and ride offroad rather than with us, it is perfect for kirroughtree.
Worth letting TJ know?
deffo Colin, more the merrier.
Totally gutted ... put the dates in today to have as holiday and was turned down 🙁 ... so its a very sorry no from me !
Hate ****ing working sometimes !!
good luck to Ton and everyone that rides,. 🙂 .... genuinely pissed off 😥
stumpy.....throw a sickie. 😀
Can't really Ton,as I've asked for those days off already it will look a bit suspect me going on the box for that weekend !
Saying that I'm due to end the secondment I'm on at the end of march so may well be back on my old job in April so may be able to make it then ?
But I've no idea what's happening till then ??
stumpy, looks like we are just gonna book beds rather than the whole thing, so it shouldn't be a problem.
