Scotland : Argyll, Isles & Loch Lomond Chat for CC Ecosse Islay Cycle Tour 2014

[MikeW-71]

If the test I'm doing now works, a little fun video will be uploading tonight

 

[Scoosh]

Thought you were so tired you had to run away without saying the usual cycling platitudes ...


[awaits the vid with some trepidation ... ]

 

[mcshroom]

Sounds like you had an eventful trip. Looking forward to the reports - just wish I'd been able to make it.

 

[MikeW-71]

Video is generating, will take a few hours, so I'm off to sleep and will check it in the morning. Night all!

 

[MikeW-71]

Hmmmm. Never edit when tired...

Let's try that again shall we

 

[Scoosh]

I've started a thread in the Touring & Expedition - Member's Travelogues section, for others to complete ...

Many thanks to all who came along - it was PDB !

@Fubar - a good job, well planned, well executed and nobody died, so we did our bit too.

Thanks.

 

[Fubar]

Yes, thank you all for not dying - it may have put a slight dampner on the tour for me, and would definitely have interrupted the schedule!

 

[MikeW-71]

Here's a video

I thought the music was appropriate since we were heading east....... so here's 3 hours of riding in 7 minutes, the entire last day

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se43K2eNDac

 

[Scoosh]

Now I understand why you said you already had the music in mind !

Title - Day 4 ?
3:12 - Port Ellen ?

Great vid - oh that I could get up them hills at that rate !

 

[DougieAB]

Nice video Mike. I remember thinking it was a strange noise your brakes made as we stopped in Brodick. We went for scabby chips after the video ended. Eating our chips would have been funny speeded up!

 

[MikeW-71]

Now I understand why you said you already had the music in mind !

Title - Day 4 ?
3:12 - Port Ellen ?

Great vid - oh that I could get up them hills at that rate !

I spotted the second error earlier, but not the Day 3 one Easy to fix

Nice video Mike. I remember thinking it was a strange noise your brakes made as we stopped in Brodick. We went for scabby chips after the video ended. Eating our chips would have been funny speeded up!

I think the discs need a clean (as well as the whole bike TBH) maybe some of the salt spray from the ferry got on them. Speeding up the chips would have been fun, hands are just a blur

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Barely finished to edit the photos, so many
Thanks @Fubar and all for a great cycling experience: my first visit to Arran and Islay, my first stay in a hostel, my first proper hills
Thanks for waiting for me at the top of the hills!
Ride report is in the making

Scoosh doesn't look impressed, what up No. 2?

Me thinks it was our never ending chatter and picture stops

 

[Telemark]

Wow all dizzy after watching the video ... hardly any pedalling on Islay, and some of those T-junctions look very scary indeed speeded up. Looks like you had lots of sunshine, at least on the final day . Soooo jealous...
Good to see a few new converts to cycle touring, he he ... it's another incurable addiction I am afraid .

Looking forward to seeing lots of photos and videos & stories

T (who got home from work at 8pm, a mere 13 hours after leaving home this morning - but at least I got a couple of bike rides in either end of the working day )

 

[Fubar]

Here's a video

I thought the music was appropriate since we were heading east....... so here's 3 hours of riding in 7 minutes, the entire last day

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se43K2eNDac

Brilliant, except the first 3 minutes of my ass! Great vid Mike, thanks so much!

 

[Fubar]

Wow all dizzy after watching the video ... hardly any pedalling on Islay, and some of those T-junctions look very scary indeed speeded up. Looks like you had lots of sunshine, at least on the final day . Soooo jealous...
Good to see a few new converts to cycle touring, he he ... it's another incurable addiction I am afraid .

Looking forward to seeing lots of photos and videos & stories

T (who got home from work at 8pm, a mere 13 hours after leaving home this morning - but at least I got a couple of bike rides in either end of the working day )

13 hours?!? I think we got back from Islay quicker than that!