Episode 6 of 9 North Coast 500 Anti-clockwise B869 to Kinlochewe via Ullapool Fat Lad on a Bike
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- This Episode concludes Day 4 ending at the Kinlochewe Hotel.
It continues to the end of the B869 passing through Clashnessie and Stoer then carrying on down the west coast to Ullapool where we stop for a chippy dinner.
The weather for most of this days journey was really good but takes a really bad turn for the worse as we near Kinlochewe.
This was by far the best days riding of the whole trip with amazing roads and breathtaking scenery, ENJOY !!!
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I can recommend the Gairloch hotel in that area, usually decent prices (in advance) or what I do is stay every year in a pod at Sands Caravan park, of course you need a sleeping bag and microfibre towel, but nothing else, showers right beside them, cracking restaurant , shop, and amazing beach and views.
Enjoying the series 👍🏻
Thanks John I'm getting some really good tips from a lot of viewers and this is one of them cheers, pleased your enjoying the series my friend.
Great video with beautiful roads once again. Your mate deserves a mention, he seems like the most chilled out guy ever, never seems to get frustrated and always looking at the positives, even when soaked to the skin (“keep smiling” 😀).
Allan he is the most laid back guy you could ever wish to meet and a top bloke, thanks for giving him a mention I'll pass it on. Ride Safe fella.
Another great vid with fab scenery and some serious rain !! That last hotel seemed a little rich at £90.. cheeky buggers !! 👍
Yeah most expensive and least impressive fella
enjoyed this one too mate, fantastic scenery
Yeah blew me away too my friend thanks for watching Bazza
Brilliant yet again Steve, I was sharing your pain following the silver car. They really don’t have any idea what a menace they are, especially those of us on bikes!
Thanks David it was a bit frustrating as you can maybe tell lol, cheers for watching my friend.
Fun fact Steve. That little church in Stoer is where
Norman McLeod lived. He was the Presbyterian minister who led significant settlements of Highlanders in Nova Scotia and ultimately in Waipu in New Zealand. But even he would have had words about that little silver fiesta dawdling along as it would have only taken a minute to pull over. The Scottish tourist advisery is PULL over on single carriageway rds to allow oncoming traffic to pass AND to allow faster following traffic to pass. PLus its just courtiousy.
OUR TIMETABLE OUT OF LOCKDOWN is on the adjenda Steve.. SO happy wowsers SOOOON :).. I am doubly enjoying my WUMM-767 route reserch now. Keep safe my friend . wowsers from Paula and myself as always :)
Hey David thanks as always for that additional info on the church appreciate it fella. And as you say good news now we have dates for easing out this god awful lockdown. Sooo pleased your plans will be going ahead and also looking great for our tour of Wales this year too. HAPPY DAYS. Stay safe you 2.
My missus Paulina and I have just watched the series Steve. We are making the trip plans now.. doing it in a little corsa .Windows down, closest to biking as she will let me get. HAPPY DAYS AFTER LOCKDOWN 2020. Best wishes and thanks for the effort from you and Deck . Kind regards Geoff Noble.
Hope you have a great trip Geoff, pleased you enjoyed the series my friend.
Great video, going up that incline at 2minutes 8seconds i remember saying “please, please,please don’t let there something coming that wall in front was scary, i know what you mean about some people in cars i tended to hold back to give me plenty of room between me and them in a van didn’t have the same acceleration as a bike, thanks for another great video.
Pleased you enjoyed and know what you mean about that wall bit was a bit frightening eh, the silver car had loads of chances to pull in a passing point but didn't so it was just frustrating that was all lol. Stay safe mate
Bit of a gem....
Absolutely Gary top little road.
It can be very stressful on a big bike on them roads going at walking pace behind some eejit, what they don't realise is if you have to stop there might not be any reachable road underfoot due to the road falling away. I did it on my FJR and it takes some muscle sometimes to make sure your bike leans towards the crown of the road just so you can put a foot down. You captured the true essence of Scotland, beautiful beyond words but unforgiving with its weather :) Great video mate, carry on.
Cheers fella for watching and the positive comment and your bang on about finding road surface underfoot on those kind of roads. The weather was unbelievable that day we had it all. Ride Safe mate
What a great trip Steve, thank you for sharing it. The soundtrack was really great. Keep it up and safe ride!!
Thanks Nelio appreciate the comment and thanks for watching.
Ridden all these roads ....and as we are still in lockdown...great to see such great roads, scenery again ..thanks for sharing ....ride safe !!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Another great raz mate keep em coming pal enjoy watching them the Fev rider.
Thanks Peter (Fev rider) appreciate the comment my friend
The scenery just gets better and better. Ullapool looks like a place to stay, very pretty. Great video once again Steve. Pick up my RT today, I'm blown away on how good it is.
It does get better and better and hey you are going to have many a happy ride on one of these machines they are superb.
Another great episode. We had the same problem with camper vans not pulling over. Brings back great memories. 👍
Pleased you enjoyed fella and yeah those camper vans can be a pain but to be truthful most were considerate, thanks for watching my friend.
Bog bath plant shower lol 😂 good vid again Steve👍
Ha ha cheers Andy
Great content , I'm enjoying this series, thanks.
And thanks to you for watching my friend and for taking time to comment.
Nice videos. You really need to take a tent though so you can spend the night at some of the really nice places here.
Great idea
Brilliant again Steve really enjoyed it can’t believe how beautiful it is,ride safe mate 👍
Mark it is without doubt the most beautiful place I have ridden through and I've been to lots of places, thanks for watching my friend.
Fabulous trip really enjoying your trip mate keep them coming thanks again tony
Cheers Tony a few more episodes yet fella.
Hello Steve absolutely brilliant video I come from Aberdeen and I have just finished a 17 week camping adventure over the west coast in a car and my country has definitely got the best scenery and places to visit stay and pass thru I came across your video on you tube when I was travelling about and couldn’t help noticing that you stopped to take a few pictures on your way to kinlochewe which you said was corriedhalloch gorge that place that you stopped for picturesque was a few hundred yards past the gorge which is absolutely stunning if you go on to google you will see what you missed looking forward to the instalment safe journey all the best guys 👍👍🏴🏴🏴
Oh wow Colin just been on google checking out photo's of the gorge and what amazing scenery, fantastic thanks for the heads up. And you are so lucky living up there it is by far the most picturesque part of the UK.
Thank you for your reply Steve yes we are very lucky to have great scenery in Scotland but there also great scenery all over the uk and Northern Ireland I stayed a week in N I in a place called portrush I made that my base camp and travelled all over and took in some great places with wonderful picturesque scenery I just fell in love with the place we are really are lucky to have such great places to visit that’s why I like to stay in my own instead of going abroad many thanks for sharing your videos they are excellent 👍👍🏴🏴🏴
@@colinmclachlan4597 I wont argue about Ireland as have been there too unfortunately the weather was not kind as you will see if you take a look at that series. But scenery again stunning!!! th-cam.com/play/PLVhMSTW5Ugv2DIjzdHOZEliATDppe0mE4.html
Cheers Steve I’ll give that a blast on my next journey away thanks 👍
Did it the other way last year - watching this brings back some great memories, thank you.
Thanks for watching and pleased your enjoying the series fella, Ride safe
Your trips are awe inspiring. If I’m ever fortunate enough to get the time to ride the NC500 I’ll definitely have benefited from your guided tour of the little extras like this. Love your jovial spirit even when caught behind inconsiderate drivers 😬
Thanks fella appreciate the comment pleased you enjoyed it. Ride Safe my friend.
Bloody L Steve,that rain was biblical,even so its cracking scenery init,
hope your mate's dried out by now,we've all been there eh ;-)
Ride Safe Baza
Ha ha was a tad wet Baza thanks for watching as usual mate and Dek's all dried out ready to do it again, Ride safe pal.
Hi Steve, nice ride and subtle comments, we used to go to Ullapool as kids, cannot remember it not raining, but hey ho we did a lot of the area a few years ago by car as we stayed in Inverness( we travelled up by train the scenery was magnifico) and it was wall to wall sunshine, see you soon,
Ride Safe, D
Ullapool is beautiful Derek and the weather well as you can see we had everything sun, wind and torrential rain Lol Ride Safe my friend and thanks for watching.
Brilliant Steve, Ullapool is my favourite wee town. Remember, next time get ferry from Ullapool to Lewis/Harris 👌
Getting lots of tips from viewers and yours is another to add to the list cheers.
Amazing mate, as always.
Cheers Paul looking forward to your next vid which ever is next abroad or meet up lol
Steve - another fine video! Appreciate you making them!!! Did the NC500 last year - Clockwise. Stayed in the Drumbeg Hotel (Very good stay there!) and can understand your frustration when you get stuck behind useless drivers!! You had more sun in 1 day than we had in 9 days!!!!!! Off to Switzerland next year....Your Swiss trip is a great reference! Cheers mate!
Sorry to hear you did not get the weather when you did the NC500 fella, but tell you something you will in Switzerland and boy are you in for a great trip. The vids I did when we were there do not do it justice as you will find out my friend. Ride Safe and ENJOY !!!
Incredible journey Steve, really interesting. I always enjoyed visiting Ullapool, white sands & palm trees. Shared facilities are not the best in 2019
Cheers thanks for watching as always Alistair Ullapool is beautiful and as mentioned was not impressed with shared bathroom lol, ride safe buddy.
Once again Steve brilliant
Thanks Kevin pleased you enjoyed it.
Just caught and enjoyed the vid. However a correction is in order. What you said was the Corrieshalloch gorge when you stopped to admire the view wasn’t. It is a deep ravine with a wobbly suspension bridge over it.
Yes Brian sorry for my ignorance it has been pointed out by someone else as well and I went on TH-cam and have now seen the beauty of what it really is, Thanks for watching my friend and appreciate the comment.
A good idea is to bip your horn, going round blind bends on single track roads, to warn oncoming drivers, to avoid head on collisions.
Do that sometimes Steve cheers
Joking aside Steve, great footage again. Good job mate 👍.
Thanks for watching my friend and taking time to comment.
Another enjoyable video Steve, I stayed in the same hotel in Kinlochewe last year, found it okay. When you came off the B869 you should of turned right on the A837 instead of left, just a little way down this road is the village of Lochinver, it has an amazing pie shop, we stopped there for food a few years ago it was brilliant. Looking forward to the next episode,
Will bear that in mind Peter about Lochinver for next time, thanks for watching my friend.
yep,where you turned left i turned right thru Lochinver,done too much really down to isle of skye from Tongue,the scenery just got better and better it was doing my head in,in a good way.
It blows you away doesn't it Gary best scenery I have ever ridden through, Ride Safe fella.
A good fun video you had me laughing, "calm down fat lad" :-) and "Trust me" famous last words eh. We stayed over in Ullapool and had our evening meal in that chippy, and guess what it was pissing it down.
Ha ha Good chippy that John and I'm surprised it rained while you were there NOT Lol, thanks for watching mate and the comment.
Damn those Silver Ford Fiesta🚗 drivers!?!😴 . When you tour Wales🏞️ it will be people driving Hyundai i10's and Citroën Xsara Picasso's that will be holding you up.😭 Lol. Another great video fella.👍 Looking forward to seeing the Glencoe episode. Cheers Si.
Hi Si the Glencoe episode was where I managed to fly the drone and its really beautiful footage fella.
Another great vid Steve 👌brilliant. just watched the last bit of your Swiss trip there think we are doing similar trip next yr planning will start early next yr , thanks for sharing mate
Steven
Thanks for watching my friend and you will love Switzerland Steven its awesome.
Great vid ...thanks
Pleased you enjoyed it my friend and thanks for watching.
Some of my favourite roads in Scotland. Looks like you saw some rain as did we earlier this year. I've found most car drivers in the Highlands to be quite good at pulling in to allow faster traffic to pass by. There are plenty of signs up there saying please allow overtaking but it's often other tourists just ignorant of protocol. Got my Gopro 4 in a waterproof case sealed at the microphone entry with blu tack especially for Scotland. Enjoyed the vid
I like yourself did find that most drivers were great and did pull over for us but it was just this idiot in this ep that began to grind me lol. I saw you had lots of rain as I watched all your eps in Scotland. Just watching your Picos ones at mo and enjoying them.
@@Steve-Clark wouldn't be Scotland without rain. Cheers
@@Banditmanuk So true Lol
That little fiesta was anoyying ... I was getting road rage on your behalf.. lol. They are clueless.
The rest of the vid looked good, pity about the rain but that's Scotland. Enjoying the series.
Ha ha it was rather a pain lol pleased your enjoying series fella.
Ardvwrek Castle . Destroyed by a lightning strike . The Kurgan ?
Wow did not know that cheers
Another great section and video Steve. Drivers like that silver car driver are very frustrating and plain incompetent. Its got so socially unacceptable to criticise other drivers but to hell with that pc nonsense! They need criticism because the roads are full of idiots who are obvlivious to everyone around them. The roads would be kess stressful and safer without them driving.
You got some decent weather...that and a chippy dinner...great bike ride and scenery....must have been really tough! Great feeling when you click with a new bike...can't see myself riding owt else than the gsa now for the same reason...just need longer legs!
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment Paul and your so right about bad drivers Grrrr. By the way i have the same prob with little legs lol. Ride Safe my friend
Chill dude, it’s a beautiful place what’s the rush.
Ha ha must learn to chill like my mate 👍
Great entertainment steve yet again. How you getting on with the Rt1200, looks such a lovely bike, might be my next choice me thinks.
Thanks for watching Robert and I am now at one with the RT and love it, could not recommend the BMW enough it does everything you want it to do and more, Ride Safe fella.
Had best steak pie in Ullapool, shop right side when bikes stopped
The chippy we used was top stuff too fella, thanks for watching ride safe buddy.
I've just booked up to do this route next year and reqatching your vids. I booked the Kinlochewe Hotel and I tell you what, it isn't £90 a night anymore...
You'll have a great tour Michael trust me. Kinlochwe Hotel was the most expensive and probably the worst one we stayed at but there is not a lot of choice round there. Ride Safe mate.
@@Steve-Clark Thanks, I'm sure we'll have fun. I'm keeping mileages down as out pillions don't enjoy I so much and you're right. The next hotel is over an hour away. Especially since most of them are already fully booked. :)
@@mykheaton ride safe mate and ENJOY
that why locals rairley go up west in sesion, uk cars pull over a lot more than our cousins from elsewhere, it gets realey dangerious.
You do right Fred thanks for watching my friend.
Hi Steve, I noticed all the rain being thrown at your new sw-moto tank bag - with the map cover fitted. How did it bare up? Did the rain get at your trip pages inside, or into the compartment? I'm thinking of getting one if you think they are any good. Another thoroughly enjoyable episode. Cheers!
Hi Chris thanks for watching fella and as for the tank bag they come with waterproof covers and I can say they are TOTALLY protective of both bag and map holder, not a drop passed through and trust me the rain we had was the best test EVER, would highly recommend any of the SW Motech bags and I have 2, hope this helps my friend.
@@Steve-Clark Thanks Steve. which model did you use on this trip?
@@chrisway9073 I took the SW motech DAYPACK which is expandable from 5 to 9 litres great little bag and have the CITY model which is 11 to 15 litre.
@@Steve-Clark Excellent. Thanks for the review.
Try the Isle of Arran or the Isle of Skye
Bernae Isle of Skye is on our to do list my friend. Thanks for watching.
Kinloch.......ewe! Not we ! 🤗
Apologies I have been corrected on so many of my pronunciations of Scottish places. I know for next time, thanks for watching my friend.
Fantastic video once again Steve.. I love the way you have the routes printed off on A4 with the historical information as you pass through each destination.. Do you have this info on a pdf format or is there a way to send me the info so I can do likewise? Or is it a case of do my own research like you obviously did I won't take offence if you say poke it 😂
Hi Richard if you let me have a contact address I can send you the word 'doc files' to print off fella.
@@Steve-Clark appreciate it Steve thanks so much
email address is richardfurley@gmail.com
£90 for two sharing that is cheap mate, try coming over to the East Coast and then be prepared to shell out you hard earned cash as normally its about £60 per person but most have TV's with 4 channels - no channel 5 unless in a bigger town.
Bloody hell Atholl we thought that 90 quid was a bit steep but 60 per person blimey, will have to get saving lol. Thanks for watching fella.
14:24 Crashed a GSX1100 going the other way . Sun in eyes and rider fatigue . Total wreck , badly bruised , end of tour .
sorry to hear that my friend
You made me smile there. Don't take this as a criticism, just a little bit of education. As you were riding past Loch Ewe, you said it and pronounced it correctly. And again when you pointed out the Isle of Ewe surrounded by Loch Ewe. Everytime you said it correctly. But when it came to Poolewe, haha, you said Pool we. Why did yoiu change ewe to we? You also made the same mistake when you spoke about Kinlochewe. It's Kinloch-ewe and not Kinloche-we. That's Ewe as in You. Great video though!
🤣 Apologies and wish I had a pound for every time I have got pronunciations wrong lol. Scotland was hard enough trying to figure them out but then we did Wales and I had no chance 😂. Ride safe my friend and thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. 👍
I thought you'd hit the back of that Land Rover round that sharp left. Daft bugger in the silver fiesta should have pulled over.
Never get road rage but was getting close with that frustrating fiesta ha ha thanks for watching fella.
@@Steve-Clark I would have used my horn so he could let me pass but I am Italian and we do that allot hear
Still don't think that silver car would of moved even with a horn blast Gerardo, thanks for watching as usual my friend.
You didn't stop at Flossie's Beach Store and cafe . What a shame .
Might be doing this again at some point so will bear that in mind my friend
@@Steve-Clark Great . There's so much to take in that it never gets boring . I do parts of the NC500 every year . My best two trips were on a rescued ER5 . Once you get onto single track roads size dosen't matter . I did the whole Bealach na Ba descent with my engine off on brakes only . Great series of vids in these locked down times . 👍👍👍👍
@@bobgibb2781 totally agree this route would never get boring pleased your enjoying vids through these tough times. 👍
That weather looks very familiar never seen rain like it and I did ruin my camera I completely forgot about it lost most of 3 days filming we also had snow at Tongue 28th May would you believe what a climate if it ain't raining just give it 15 minutes 😂
So true my friend the rain is really bad when it wants to be and I can relate to you losing footage as I did when I let my camera get ruined on my Ireland trip. Thanks for watching fella.
Love Ullapool. There's the most fantastic hotel there that does incredible food but I'm not going to give its name as I don't want it to become overrun lol
Ullapool is beautiful and was a great place for us to stop for lunch.
what bike has Dex got ?
Dek rides a Yamaha 600 fella
Hi Steve. Just re watching your Drumbeg loop B869 as inspiration as I have just reached this section of the NC500 on my 2021 tour. Been a long while coming as My editing skills needed a year of experience under the belt in order to pull out detail in my recordings. You know , got the reds right but what's happened to the greens and where the fkk have the yellows gone. That blue gain needs a smidgen :))). My fault for not learning how to set up my sweet little Drift XL before setting off. In my defence I will say delivered on Friday and away on Monday. But it did record 8 hours a day and every single mile of our Adventure was recorded. Keep safe my friend and thank you for the inspiration and the dedication you put in to bring your adventure to the world. 💯❤🩹🤓🙏🤳
The B869 is a part of the nc500 that so many miss out on route and to their loss as this is quite incredible. Thanks for getting in touch and letting me know you have done it and will watch it my friend.
£90 and no telly!
Did you miss an episode of Bake Off... 😉.
No fella got it on serial record at home Lol
Thank you. Interesting that you went from a Pan European to a BMW, I’ve just gone the other way, had a 2017 GS Adventure sold it and bought a 2006 Pan European. Like the Pan better than my GSA, I’ve also had an RT and yes a good bike. Thanks again, really enjoyed this 👍🏍
Hi Ian thanks for watching fella, I absolutely loved my Pan and had it for 12yrs and rode 40,000 very happy miles on her but it got to the stage where I was struggling to move it about manually as it became to heavy for me. So I have changed to the BMW as believe it or not its 11 stone lighter than the Pan and thats the only reason or would still be riding the ST1300 great bike and sadly missed.
My route out of Ullapool was your route in, nice to watch this back, I was kind of to busy scratching to take much in.
We were fortunate that there werent many midges about when we did it.
@@Steve-Clark I didn't have any problems with them in Fort William and Ulapool but the little fuckers took chunks out of me when camped near Inverness, bloody things have teeth like lions lol
Ahhhhh, I wondered what the reference for miggies was, when I said scratching, I meant going for it on the bike, my focus for my trip was to blast my way from campsite to campsite. I was on my ZRX1200R, not a particularly quick bike but fun can be had below 3 figure speeds and it handles well for its weight.
2900 miles on mostly A roads and nobody passed me, I think I had a good holiday lol
@@joebloggs1317 sorry fella definite crossed wires there lol. Sounds like you had a good one 👍
It's most important you can see the bikes from your room window. Maybe that's why it was 90 quid 😂
Brilliant again. Good show 👍
Possibly so Nick lol thanks for watching fella.
More stunning scenery from your trip around part of the nc 500.😌
Thanks for watching my friend.
Nice video again Steve I am enjoying the views anyway. Keep it right way up and all will be fine . Cheers Bro
Thanks for watching Paul and pleased your enjoying them mate.
Great ride, how many Loch's are there? Thanks for the video's
Cheers Joesph you will be amazed to find out that there are nearly 31,500 Lochs in Scotland so plenty more for me to see.
brilliant trip amazing scenery
Cheers Colin pleased you enjoyed it mate.