Category: Cycling

The mileage was fairly low again today. That’s lucky because my brake pads have been wearing very thin, so needed replacing. I didn’t manage to find the bike shops in […]...

The trip today was intentionally quite short. It included a short ferry crossing from Nigg to Cromarty, enabling me to map an alternative braid of National Cycle Route 1. The […]...

Most of today was spent following the A9. It’s not a particularly pleasant road to cycle on with lots of panniers, but there isn’t really any other choice of road […]...

Whilst cycling around the Orkney Islands yesterday I had a second spoke break on my rear wheel. So my route today was changed to call by a cycle shop back […]...

It was a relatively flat ride over to John O’Groats today, following National Cycle Route 1 all of the way. When I arrived Volvo were filming a commercial at the […]...

I woke up to a bright, clear, and sunny day this morning. This showed the scenery surrounding the Crask Inn to its best, so I stopped frequently taking photographs along […]...

Today’s route started out passing through a few small villages. After about 20 miles I reached Lairg, and after that just a small scattering of buildings. I was following the […]...

I cycled through Inverness today, then out onto the Black Isle via the Kessock Bridge. By this point I’d finished following National Cycle Route 7 and was following just National […]...

There were a number of choices of route whilst following NCR7 today; the route splits into several braids. I took the braids that were mainly traffic-free, but this did mean […]...

Today’s route followed NCR7 for the whole time. It was essentially a long, but gentle climb upwards to 460m for about 40 miles followed by approximately 20 miles of decent […]...