Miz wrote:Made it back in one piece, 2340miles in 8 days, all LM's found, tried out 3 different ferries, visited Arran for the first time (for about 15 minutes).
Only problems with the bike is a blown rear indicator bulb (its a weird size, so new indicators required), had some time on a 500cc single Xtra in some of the heavier rain, so need to check out the front plug cap/HT Lead/Coil.
Looks like I've used about half the "new" rear tyre, so should be getting about 5K out of it before having to replace it.
Just got back from Scotland myself. It's been the wettest trip so far. Did just under 1000 miles in 3 days, but not exactly without problems.
I'd already had plenty of '500 single' experience so I got a new plug cap for the front pot before I left. Constant rain from Glasgow onwards didn't seem to bother the bike and I thought I'd fixed it. However it went onto one pot for the last 30 miles. Curses! It rained all Friday night and Saturday morning. We planned on going over to Applecross which I didn't fancy on a semi-Rap.
Fortunately the rain stopped, the roads dried and within 10 miles I was back on two again. Hooray! Sunday was solid rain all the way home, but the bike barely missed a beat, even riding on a sodden motorway with loads of traffic throwing up spray. I'll still be trying for a new lead and some sort of mudguard extender for the front though.
As an aside, does everybody else already know about the B7078/B7076 that runs alongside the M74? Never been on it before but we used it from junction 9 down to Lockerbie on the way home. I presume that this was the main road before the motorway was built. Basically it is a long fast road (eg. you could probably cruise most of it at 120 mph if the bike was up to it) but with NO traffic!
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It was like something out of a sci-fi movie, a 'ghost' road or something. Amazing and unreal.