Irn-Bru? Scottish Blethering Thread

[mr messy]

Phew, well done!


Very nice they were, too, in a sausage casserole, with the last of the non-floury potatoes from the allotment, carrots, celeriac & of course sausages.
There is nothing quite like freshly dug/picked vegetables and fruit (if you like such things ) . This sort of food might make a decent CC Ecosse meal if there is another easterly RV during the cooler season, plenty of leeks left for a while yet.

T

Leek and potato soup with a grating of parmesan yummmm!!!

 

[Fubar]

We will celebrate three ‘milestone’ birthdays in the extended family over the next couple of months, and to mark them, we’re all heading up to Kingsbarns for a long weekend at the end of March. I’d quite like to do a part of it by bike, accompanied by the heir, and, to avoid the congestion around Glasgow on a Friday morning and keep the mileage reasonable, I’m intending that we take the train to Stirling and start from there.

This is where you, my friends, come in I enquired of Messrs Google if they had any suggestions and this is what they came up with. It’s the right sort of distance, 60 miles or so, but I have no knowledge of the area until we get to Lundin Links, so, I would really appreciate any input from those who do know. A fair proportion is on some sort of cycle track, but as we all know, there are cycle paths and there are cycle paths, so hints on what parts to avoid, which parts don’t actually exist, and where it’s probably just as well to stick to the road will be gratefully received.

Many thanks in advance

On the iPad so map doesn't appear but by the looks it takes the Clacks-Dunfermline cycle path (fine, if you like that kind of thing) then via Cowdenbeath to Glenrothes, then via A911 (which would worry me). You could just head to Clackmannan from Stirling then the well trodden road via Kincardine and Culross to Dunfermline - if I was heading east I'd be inclined to stick to the coast road, though am not so experienced cycling as driving!

@Col5632 could post up the Edin-St Andrews ride he did last year which would probably give you a good route and I can do a bit more digging - end of March you say? Could be persuaded to guide you through the Wild West of Fifeshire...

 

[mr messy]

Could be worthwhile hiring an indian scout @GBC especially when a friendly one offering

 

[Fubar]

We will celebrate three ‘milestone’ birthdays in the extended family over the next couple of months, and to mark them, we’re all heading up to Kingsbarns for a long weekend at the end of March. I’d quite like to do a part of it by bike, accompanied by the heir, and, to avoid the congestion around Glasgow on a Friday morning and keep the mileage reasonable, I’m intending that we take the train to Stirling and start from there.

This is where you, my friends, come in I enquired of Messrs Google if they had any suggestions and this is what they came up with. It’s the right sort of distance, 60 miles or so, but I have no knowledge of the area until we get to Lundin Links, so, I would really appreciate any input from those who do know. A fair proportion is on some sort of cycle track, but as we all know, there are cycle paths and there are cycle paths, so hints on what parts to avoid, which parts don’t actually exist, and where it’s probably just as well to stick to the road will be gratefully received.

Many thanks in advance

P.s. The cycle path is fine, though later in the day it gets busy with dogs, horses, Joggers, cyclists, Ned's, prams, etc and the B road is fine to Dunfermline hence why I avoid the path if possible.

 

[Telemark]

Leek and potato soup with a grating of parmesan yummmm!!!

On another note, tomorrow afternoon/evening rush hour could be a bit 'interesting' across CC Ecosse land, particularly at the higher levels (such as my work ), according to the MetOffice

T

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Heavy snow??? Not even that cold here
I'm off tomorrow, going for a wee ride the the girls in the morning, then doing a wee "bike courier's" job delivering the GWL's programmes

 

[Edwardoka]

Heavy snow??? Not even that cold here
I'm off tomorrow, going for a wee ride the the girls in the morning, then doing a wee "bike courier's" job delivering the GWL's programmes

Sounds like today, although I didn't deliver the GWL programmes, I delivered the deliverer

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Sounds like today, although I didn't deliver the GWL programmes, I delivered the deliverer

Ha, ha, greetings to @Gee_Dee, Michelle and I are going to do it tomorrow, no lifts for us, just pedal power

 

[Edwardoka]

Ha, ha, greetings to @Gee_Dee, Michelle and I are going to do it tomorrow, no lifts for us, just pedal power

No lifts here either, just helped with negotiating Shields Road and dodging construction traffic at Pacific Quay

 

[Col5632]

We will celebrate three ‘milestone’ birthdays in the extended family over the next couple of months, and to mark them, we’re all heading up to Kingsbarns for a long weekend at the end of March. I’d quite like to do a part of it by bike, accompanied by the heir, and, to avoid the congestion around Glasgow on a Friday morning and keep the mileage reasonable, I’m intending that we take the train to Stirling and start from there.

This is where you, my friends, come in I enquired of Messrs Google if they had any suggestions and this is what they came up with. It’s the right sort of distance, 60 miles or so, but I have no knowledge of the area until we get to Lundin Links, so, I would really appreciate any input from those who do know. A fair proportion is on some sort of cycle track, but as we all know, there are cycle paths and there are cycle paths, so hints on what parts to avoid, which parts don’t actually exist, and where it’s probably just as well to stick to the road will be gratefully received.

Many thanks in advance

On the iPad so map doesn't appear but by the looks it takes the Clacks-Dunfermline cycle path (fine, if you like that kind of thing) then via Cowdenbeath to Glenrothes, then via A911 (which would worry me). You could just head to Clackmannan from Stirling then the well trodden road via Kincardine and Culross to Dunfermline - if I was heading east I'd be inclined to stick to the coast road, though am not so experienced cycling as driving!

@Col5632 could post up the Edin-St Andrews ride he did last year which would probably give you a good route and I can do a bit more digging - end of March you say? Could be persuaded to guide you through the Wild West of Fifeshire...

Here is the route for Edinburgh - St Andrews, goes over cleish from the easy side

 

[GBC]

On the iPad so map doesn't appear but by the looks it takes the Clacks-Dunfermline cycle path (fine, if you like that kind of thing) then via Cowdenbeath to Glenrothes, then via A911 (which would worry me). You could just head to Clackmannan from Stirling then the well trodden road via Kincardine and Culross to Dunfermline - if I was heading east I'd be inclined to stick to the coast road, though am not so experienced cycling as driving!

@Col5632 could post up the Edin-St Andrews ride he did last year which would probably give you a good route and I can do a bit more digging - end of March you say? Could be persuaded to guide you through the Wild West of Fifeshire...

Thanks a lot for the info Fubar, and particularly the offer of a guide. However, we would be travelling on the Friday and I would feel very guilty indeed if you took a day's holiday for that: the thought though, is much appreciated
Louch was good enough to get in touch as well, suggesting the same route from Stirling to Culross, and I'm coming round to your way of thinking of just following the coast road up, certainly as far as Lundin Links, and then cutting inland from there. The place we're going is on the landward side of Kingsbarns, so we'd then be coming in from the right direction. The other factor is that the cycle track route from Stirling to Dunfermline looked unneccessarily complicated and a bit urban.
I don't want to overdo it in terms of miles so early in the season as I'm not too sure what's in my legs, and the maximum distance my son has done to date is about 40 miles, but he's 22 so he can take it. I also have to consider hat the next day will see us walking a few miles of the Fife Coastal Path as well, so there will definitely have to be a balance.
I'll get the protractor and dividers out and see what I can come up with

 

[GBC]

Here is the route for Edinburgh - St Andrews, goes over cleish from the easy side

Thanks for that Col, but that one is going further north than I anticipated - I'm presently lookin at just going up the coast road, something I haven't done for many a year, so possibly a bit overdue!

 

[i hate hills]

Not going out again till the Brechin palm trees have coconuts

 

[Fubar]

Thanks a lot for the info Fubar, and particularly the offer of a guide. However, we would be travelling on the Friday and I would feel very guilty indeed if you took a day's holiday for that: the thought though, is much appreciated
Louch was good enough to get in touch as well, suggesting the same route from Stirling to Culross, and I'm coming round to your way of thinking of just following the coast road up, certainly as far as Lundin Links, and then cutting inland from there. The place we're going is on the landward side of Kingsbarns, so we'd then be coming in from the right direction. The other factor is that the cycle track route from Stirling to Dunfermline looked unneccessarily complicated and a bit urban.
I don't want to overdo it in terms of miles so early in the season as I'm not too sure what's in my legs, and the maximum distance my son has done to date is about 40 miles, but he's 22 so he can take it. I also have to consider hat the next day will see us walking a few miles of the Fife Coastal Path as well, so there will definitely have to be a balance.
I'll get the protractor and dividers out and see what I can come up with

I think that makes sense, you can hug the coast up to Leven then cut towards Lundin Links from there, though from memory the road past the golf course outside Leven can get a bit busy. Other advice would be to avoid Aberdour and Burntisland by taking the back road to Kirkcaldy via the quarry - I'll let you know the road number. Not as scenic but less climbing and not as narrow. The cycle path would be ok on a Friday but unnecessary.

Anything else just ask my friend.

 

[tug benson]

Thanks a lot for the info Fubar, and particularly the offer of a guide. However, we would be travelling on the Friday and I would feel very guilty indeed if you took a day's holiday for that: the thought though, is much appreciated
Louch was good enough to get in touch as well, suggesting the same route from Stirling to Culross, and I'm coming round to your way of thinking of just following the coast road up, certainly as far as Lundin Links, and then cutting inland from there. The place we're going is on the landward side of Kingsbarns, so we'd then be coming in from the right direction. The other factor is that the cycle track route from Stirling to Dunfermline looked unneccessarily complicated and a bit urban.
I don't want to overdo it in terms of miles so early in the season as I'm not too sure what's in my legs, and the maximum distance my son has done to date is about 40 miles, but he's 22 so he can take it. I also have to consider hat the next day will see us walking a few miles of the Fife Coastal Path as well, so there will definitely have to be a balance.
I'll get the protractor and dividers out and see what I can come up with

The cycle path from stirling to dunfermline isn`t that bad...You join the cycle path at the roundabout on the A907 just below the wallace monument..the cycle road(it`s a old road not a path) runs along the side of the of the new A907, you then cut of just before Tullibody and follow the path by the Diageo plant, along the side of the river Devon through Cambus then into Alloa, All the way from the start of the cycle road through to Alloa it is traffic free...if you follow the cycle route it takes you through the bottom end of Alloa, trust me you don`t want to go down there, it`s not the best place, if something was to happen like you getting a puncture there is a good chance the young ones would steal your bike....instead of going down there, when yiu come into Alloa and are heading along grange road/Bedford place(my street) the cycle route will tell you to turn down the St Mungos Wynd, don`t do that, head right along Bedford place to Bank street, then take a left down greenside street(by tescos) follow that road till you come to the big roundabout at Adsa, take a right at the roundabout on to Clackmannan road(A907) follow that road up by the fire station, when coming up that road you will see a few houses called helensfield, when you see that take a left, then a right( it becomes traffic free again from here) follow that traffic free road and you will come to the start of the Alloa-Dunfermline cycle path.

If you feel peckish on route would stop at either of these 2 places
http://www.corrieris.co.uk/
http://www.blairmains.com/