MMD Ride Scotland - Ep 6
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Ride with us from Dornoch to Ballater in the Cairngorms through sunshine, heavy rain, past castles and ski fields to Edinburgh. Pipers, craft beer, Greyfriar's Bobby, Sir Walter Scott's funny hat - it's all here! The final day's ride from Scotland to the Lake District and the sleepy town of Cockermouth in Wordsworth country. A beautiful end to our fantastic NC 500 trip!
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Go pro Hero Black 6
canon G7x
I phone X
Mavic Pro
Truly a beautiful country, one of the most beautiful videos I have seen on TH-cam of Scotland. Thanks for sharing. 😃❤👍
Thanks very much Erwin - that’s very kind of you to say! We’re really glad you enjoyed it - it certainly is a beautiful country! 😀👍
@@midlifemotorcyclediaries 👍😃❤🙏
Brilliant really enjoyed all 6 episodes of your trip to Scotland brings back a lots of memories take care.
Thanks and we’re really glad they brought back some good memories 😀 that’s what it’s all about Derek - making memories! 👍😀
Fabulous trip wish I was there with you ❤️👍👀
Thanks Anthony! It’s a fantastic country to ride in! 👍😀
Ahh, the Lakes - I went to boarding school in Keswick for 3 yrs - 76 to 79 (1976 that is before anyone asks me to clarify which century..) my favourite part of England and I took my wife up there for us to get married in 2003.
76 was the long hot summer so when I got there in Sept we still had glorious weather right up to November (ironically we had snow in the Easter of that yr).
I was lucky enough to climb Scafell Pike 3 times, swim across Derwentwater, do Catbells and all the other main fells in the area during my school yrs there.
Also met Joss Naylor (famous fell runner) and his daughter was in my class at school - when we arrived at our b and b where we stayed for our wedding, I was amazed to find that she was the owner!!
Happy days indeed.
Yes the Lakes are beautiful 😀 I remember 76 very well, I was a student Loughborough ! Hottest summer ever 🥵 - also remember Joss Naylor too 🏃🏻 !
Thanks for the amazing videos of your tour, thoroughly enjoyed them
Del Williams Thanks so much for your comments and support for our channel we really appreciate it! 😀👍
Nice series guys! Well done!
Thanks very much Ian! 😀👍
Hi there we have just found your channel in the last few weeks, we find channels like yours & Travels on my Motorbike are what we like viewing. It’s good to see a couple out there enjoying & exploring on their bikes. We are going through your back catalogue & have just watched the NC500 series which again is excellent. We hope to see more of your travels as time goes on, all the best Tim & Helen
Thanks very much Tim and Helen! We really appreciate your comments 😀 and hope you continue to enjoy our channel- we both just really enjoy riding together!
How lucky were you guys with the weather! How spectacular those roads are! There is nothing like winding your way through a ribbon of a road through amazing scenery and with zero traffic. We are blessed to be able to do that where we are too. Our little town is classed as being "in the middle of everywhere".
Thanks Jenny - you’re right, we were so lucky with the weather - unusual for Scotland 😀 where is your little town? 😀👍
@@midlifemotorcyclediaries We are in Gippsland, Victoria (Oz). Moved from the Mornington Peninsula (which is also beautiful, but full of terrorists (oops, I mean tourists) almost all year now). We have everything on our doorstep, it's perfect!
Cracking series. I have ridden these roads more times than I can count but I still love seeing other folks trips on them. Subscribed and now looking forward to a watching the rest of your content!
Thanks very much! We really appreciate you taking time out to watch our videos!
Thanks for this Scotland tour i have been watching on the tv but had to watch Ep6 on the laptop so i cud thank you both this is a trip i will be doing next year if we are all let out to play. love the way you do your vlogs and all the history with the places you stop big thanks Mick
Thanks very much Mick! We’re glad you enjoyed the trip - it was one of my favourites- the NC 500 has to be one of the best routes ever, hope you get a chance to do it when all this madness is over 😀. Thanks for watching- ride safe! 👍😀
Well, that brought back memories of our trip in June. We headed back from Inverness to stay with friends just outside Edinburgh. Stopped in the same bakery in Grantown on Spey for a cuppa. I have always loved the road from there to Tomintoul and Cockbridge, especially over the Lecht. There's a brilliant cafe in Tomintoul called the "Old Fire Station" which is just across the road from the whiskey shop (Huge range of single malts). We stopped for lunch in the Angus Hotel in Blairgowrie before continuing down to Edinburgh. It seems we had better weather though.
Adrian Nicholson Thanks! Glad it brought back some good memories! It is a great road to ride, even in the wet!👍
Hi guys - thankyou for a brilliant trip. We have driven in and around Scotland a few time over the years. We drove the NC500 in 2019. Walked the Great Glen and the Spey River. I would love to tour there on my R1200RT. My Grandmother was born in Grantown. Cheers from Alan in Australia.
Thanks very much Alan! You would certainly love it on your RT 👍 I had one before I got my GS - probably too expensive to ship your bike over from Oz 🙁 ? Thanks for watching! 😀👍
Really enjoyed watching your tour, nice blend of riding, scenery, history, hotels, eating stops and other holiday activities. Great viewing for anyone. You’re a lovely couple. ‘Course the weather is always like that up here in Bonny Scotland, we get fed up with it. Every morning the sun blazes down, it can get quite too much actually and what with the price of sun block!
Jack Harrison Thanks so much for your comments! 👍😀 Scotland is such a stunning country - you’re very lucky to live in a place where it’s always so sunny! 🥵🤥 🤥😂
Thoroughly enjoyed that series brought back some great memories of the route. And recognised a lot of the music 🤣 well put together. Stay safe the pair of you.
Glad you enjoyed it Steve!
Hello thank you for all addresses and the road book I look your videos with great pleasure we hope to make this trips in July cordially Dominique
Thanks very much Dominique! Glad you enjoyed it and good luck with your trip! 😀👍
This would be one of my favourite runs in Scotland from Inverness to Nairn and up to Tomintoul over the Lecht to Braemar, Glenshee and the A93 South
Thank you for sharing your wee adventure around my Homeland and haste ye back for another wee Adventure
We’d love to do more in Scotland- God’s Own Country! 😀
@@midlifemotorcyclediaries Whoa. Godzone is NZ. LOL. Love your relaxed style of motorbike touring.
@@nickbenfell4327 You’re spot on Nick, it is NZ! But Godzone in the Northern Hemisphere has to be Scotland! 🤣🤣😀
Loved the videos. Really good content. Looks like you really dropped lucky with the weather.
Mark C Thanks very much for your comments and for following our channel! You’re right, we really dropped lucky weather wise 😀 Scotland is beautiful anyway but in the sun it’s stunning! 👍
Just subscribed. Glad I found you. Ready for my motorcycle tours . Thanks guys ❤️
Thanks very much Daren! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for subscribing! 😀👍
Hi there a new subscriber enjoy your vido blogs will be caching up on all your videos. Will be making a list of places to visit for the future. Thanks for sharing . Rolley .
Thank you Rolley! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching and subscribing! 😀👍
Just finished watching this one, great series guys 👍🏻me and Dawn had this planned for June last year but had to cancel hopefully we'll get to do it next year some great tips thanks 👍🏻
Thanks Dale! Hope you do get a chance to do it - it really is a fantastic route but try to avoid peak times if you can! 😀👍
Just finished binge watching your Scotland tour, and enjoyed every minute of it. As you know I am a new subscriber and catching up on your back catalogue while the weather is a tad grim. We were going to do a three week European tour for my 60th but Covid and a heart attack put that on the back burner. After watching your tour we’ve decided to give this a go early spring next year, hopefully the whole Covid thing will have calmed down, fingers crossed. Take care .
Thanks very much Baz! Hope you recover soon and look forward to hearing how you get on next Spring!
Watched the whole series on Xmas night (nothing worth watching on TV) have done part of the this route on my bike but hope to do the full tour in the near future, scenery brilliant. have stopped in the Dornoch hotel and was not impressed at all, food was disgusting? The room and furniture were really dated but the rest of the week we toured made up for it. Excellent videos.
Thanks very much Newton, really glad you enjoyed the videos! You’re right about the Dornoch Hotel, it is really dated and needs a serious refurb - though we did have a laugh 😂 ! We can really recommend doing the whole NC 500 - it’s definitely one of the best trips we’ve ever done 👍 hope you get go do it soon. Thanks for watching! 👍😀
Just finished watching your Scotland trip. I enjoy watching all of it. Great weather. Great food and beer by the looks. I have do John our oats to lands end on racing bikes. The trip take us 9 days hard work. By I enjoy it. Hats of to sue on her riding. Hope to see her maybe on her new bike same time in the future. Brain was hat will be your next bike? ??. I been looking at a Honda nc750dct. My better half has said that I can see about getting one next year. If I'm a good boy. Look forward to seeing your next video. Ride safe and takecare of yourself.
Thanks very much James! Appreciate your comments 😀 it was a great trip! John O’Groats to Land’s End is an incredible trip 👍 especially on sports bikes - it would take us weeks 😂. I’m very proud of Sue and her riding- hopefully we can upgrade her bike in 2021. I’ll be keeping mine for a while yet! Thanks for watching! 👍😀
Hi . Just finished watching your Devon Dorset trip. Again great video. I love Dorset. I worked down in Poole many years ago. Packington tiles in Poole just across the bridge just past the Potter arm pub. I don't think it there any more. I came back up the the north east . Started working for ici north tees works. Did 21 years for them. But sad ici no longer .just like the ship yards. I would luv to see you doing a trip to the D day landing beaches. Hope to see more of your great video soon. I like them as you both point out the history of same of the place you visit. Takecare of yourself and ride safe. By of now. Ps sorry about same of the spelling in my last message.
Thanks again James! The D Day beaches are on our list - we were due to be in France this year before the virus struck 😩 fingers crossed 🤞 next year! 👍😀
No coffee in Inverness!!!! :((((.. FFF yu JIMMY . I am awaaayyyy to Daviot :))))) .. 1st rule of the road, -COFFEE RULES-! . :))) lol, love it.
On our ever present search for good coffee stops we like to park right outside the coffee stop if we can (Nanny’s in Shieldaig) on our ride through Inverness we didn’t see one hence Daviot! 👍😂😀
@@midlifemotorcyclediaries good security too. When the bike is fully loaded it would take twenty minutes to unlock the panniers and carry them into the coffee stop.. A good coffee is awesome but returning to the steed and finding some thieving toe rag has robbed the paniers would be soul destroying.
Keep safe and happy my friend. Happy riding days FOREVER.
KIND regards Dave and Paula. Yes Nannies..
:). The green welly is a must. But nannies looks like an absolute Joy.
Thanks Dave and Paula! You’re right 👍 good security is a must. Nannies was the best we visited ☕️🍰 ! Miss those happy, sunny riding days! 😀👍
Thanks for a great series guys, thoroughly enjoyed watching. We're hoping to do the NC500 in July, and will be travelling up from South Wales, fingers crossed for some good weather. Can i ask what month you guys went? Thanks again and keep the videos coming 😀👍
Thanks very much Keith! Glad you enjoyed it 👍 we absolutely loved the NC 500 and we’re lucky with the weather - we did it in May. Hope you have a great time! 😀👍