Here’s a recap of the trip to Scotland with my son. It was a group tour with Wilderness Scotland. Coast to coast from Aberdeen to Acharacle. We were a group of 5, plus 2 guides. The guides alternated riding with us and driving the van. We stayed in bed and breakfasts each night and ate good meals at local restaurants. All meals were covered in the price.
Each day we’d meet for breakfast at 8 and then start riding around 9. The van would drive ahead and set up a coffee/tea and cake stop about an hour into the ride. Then a couple more hours of riding until a picnic style lunch stop at the van. A couple more hours of riding after lunch and we’d get to the next hotel and relax a bit before dinner together in town.
Weather was generally in the 50s and 60s. We got rained on a little bit maybe half of the days. And spent hours in a cold rain one particular day.
The riding was a mix of gravel roads, footpaths, single track, and a little pavement. More gravel than anything else. We hit two bike parks along the way. One of them was Nevis Range, site of the UCI Dowhill World Championships this week (starting today I believe). One of our guides lives there and we had a blast running all his local trails, unfortunately it was at the end of a day and the GoPro had died by the time we hit that.
We covered about 200 miles and 13,000’ of climbing in 6 days. Longest day was 47 miles and 4000’. Not much tech, just a little on the 2 bike park days and a bit of “adventure riding” in a couple spots where there was hardly a trail at all and you had to just make your own trail.
As usual, I had a hard time trimming the video to something as short as I wanted. If you want to skip to the better riding it’s starts at 4:50