Take bikes and boards as others have said. am hoping to get back with the boards later this year. We took bikes but only did one ride. It is in the bike scotland 1 book and start just outside tarbert. It is called the rheinigdale loop and can be extended to take in some extra tracks along some quite exposed coastline. You do have to carry your bike a bit but the track teetering along above the water is magic though not hugely technical.

This track skirts the coast and is pretty nice

This is the route back to the car but you can, i think turn left further back and carry on round the coast.
A lot of the west coast of the islands have surf or check magic seaweed
for ideas

Bit of a tour in the summer once i've finished uni, provided the wife lets me. Train to inverness, down the great glen, glen affric, back to fortilliam then somehow ride to glencoe and rannoch moor get train to aviemore then ride back to aberdeen. or ride to pitlochry from glencoe and then back up to aberdeen. Logistics and map reading still very much to be sorted out. 😀 Oh and surf trip to the north coast sometime too to get some time on my as yet to be ordered longboard.

King of sweden: what are the forks on the front of that lovely machine?

Ha Ha purile but funny
Q: Dear Mr Richards It would appear that this bicycle has been ridden by a fat person, who on hitting an obstruction, has sagged forward and bent the crossbar.
A: Yeah – I lent it to your mum once. 😀

Don't know about edinburgh but i quite like aberdeen, been here since i came to uni 10 years ago. Eastern caringorms are pretty much on your doorstep, there is a big road club (deeside thistle)and plenty of mountainbiking around some within riding distance, some requirin a car. There is also transition extreme skatepark and climbing wall if that is your thing. Oh and if you surf then there is some of that available too.
The down sides are it gets dark about 3pm in the winter and when it is grey and rainy and windy (like today) then you can't tell where the city ends and the sky begins.
What are you applying to study?

Hope this helps

Edit: dammit beaten by trailrat

yes obvious;y i mean before i leave home. I shall probably be too pissed and full of cheese to manage anything academically constructive.

I'm in too. Must make sure all essays are finished before i leave.
I will not be sweating my bollocks off in some tweed this time. 😀

on-one inbred nothing bling. Being ridden instead of againsta wall. this is pretty much the default bike out of the shed these days. the other bike is a simple.
sorry for small pic, i do not understand how to get the image link from flickr anymore, as the option i used to use has dissappeared?

Er its about 5 miles from the nearst station in dumfries. I took the train from aberdeen and then just rode up. My mates all took cars. It is pretty much that distance from the pub too but we just got a truly disturbing amount of beer and a few other horrible drinks (blue blueberry vodka anyone) and got totally shitfaced. Oh and try not to drink vodka and sambuca shots before yer dinner. not good.

We went here for my stag do. Was very cool place to stay, riding right on the doorstep and bike hire is not too expensive at the shop int forest.

We just got loads of beer, did the ropes course and canoeing and got some riding in as well. Cracking weekend. (From what i remember) 😀
don't step in to the metal fire surround when its on as i still have a beaut of a scar from this. (and no doubt will for many years to come.) 😯

I do like bennachie though the climb is brutal. will maybe try for a ride up their tomorrow, haven't been up for ages. You should try the oxen crags decent as well it is pretty good, though a bit washed out.
Oh and good pics btw.

have you checked that the cleats aren't lose as this happened to me and i could rotate my foot a long way before i could unclip.

is this it?

Hollowtech two bottom bracket spacers are the right size to space out a sprocket.
You can also bodge one out of a milk carton top though i am going to replace this soon.

This guy walked up to the bar i was working in at the time. I'd had a crappy shift.
He says, "got any cheap shots?"
I respond unthinkingly with, "Yes, your mama's a ho!"
oops. Not a good thing to say to a drunk man.

i might be interested in this. On "reading week" from uni. 🙂

Where are you heading in scotland?
Up my neck of the woods? If so give me a bell nd i'll try and meet up for a ride.
Or is it too cold up north for oyu southern softies? 😀

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Two dwarves win the lottery. They decide to go to Amstterdam to spend some of their winnings. After an extremely heavy night on the sauce and smokes they decided to visit the red light district.

After each selecting a lady of the night, they return to the hotel with their new companions, say goodnight and dissappear off into their seperate rooms.
The first dwarf is really wasted, and the hooker tries everything she can think of to get him aroused. After several hours of trying she gives up and leaves and the dwarf starts to drift off to sleep. Just as he is drifting off he hears noise coming from his mates room next door.
"1..2..3..ooof." "1..2..3..OOOFF" "1…2…3….OOOf"

Bloody hell he thinks covering his head with a pillow, at least someone is having a good time.

In the morning the dwarves meet up for a very late, hungover breakfast.

"Good night?" asks the second dwarf.

"Not really" replies the first dwarf, "Blimmin embarassing really, i couldn't get it up at all."

"Thats nothing," replied the second dwarf "I couldn't even get on the bed!"

IGMC

Mine being ridden.

New one.

ridden

before the plummet down.

Stay away from slow horses and fast women.

Drop me an email, Addy in profile. Usually out wednesday evenings with the neeps but could be available other evenings depending on work/uni commitments. Speak to you soon

i like it very much too. just back from honeymoon on skye and western isles.

Frames and wheelset for £99 each a few weeks ago which happened to coincide with a time people were thinking about birthday presents. Which was nice. 🙂

I got a crumpler from tk maxx ages ago but keep your eyes skinned and they sometimes have some good stuff

Around old aberdeen is nice, and close to the uni. King street towards town is ok and down towards the beach is pretty nice too. Top of holburn street is ok and the streets off holburn street are generaly pretty nice.

Sorry for the hijack
Are you still up in aberdeen. Fancy meeting up for a blast one evening next week?

aye go for it, my emails in my profile. There is also the neeps club he should check out.

no i suspect a cousin.

Was messing about at the beach.

Three hours of medication administraion training beginning in the middle of the day does not a happy dan make.

lots of people suggested i should be a teacher but i put it off after uni for a variety of reasons. Worked as a cook and various other things and currently work in social care. as others have said, go and do a week or twos work experience and see if oyu enjoyit and try to get stuck in as much as possible. I got a reference from the head teacher of what he had seen of my performance and will be starting a pgde in August and can’t wait.

I rather like these as i think they are quite elelgant and at the risk of getting flamed also rivendells.

My choice would be aberdeen-tarland-alford -lumsden then up to tomintoul/dufftown. sample some whisky
either through to grantown on spey or down to elgin and then pick up cycle route 1 to inverness.

Or if you are feeling particularly keen,
westhill alford corgarff over the lecht and then =down to tomintoul as part of one leg.

went for the squirt in bottom of tyre and trust to luck approach, will see how it holds up
cheers for the prompt responses.
who wants to bet that the second one will not be as easy?

Butteries, also known as rowies or aberedeen rolls.
Brew dog beer, particularly their stout, Rip Tide. It is a little lethal at 8%. Balvenie though that is less local than iit used to be.

mail me, depending on shift patterns i might be able to show you about.