TDM Scotland meet

I echo everything said so far.......a thoroughly great weekend - excellent craik ..........smimky waitress was - well - err.......SMINKY! A delightful young mixed blood sminky - pity Carl wasn't there to appreciate her.............

Good to meet some new faces......welcome Kenneth from Zimbabwe and Mr T. I'll get round to posting some pics soon..............

If you ever go to Plockton then head for the "Off the Rails" restaurant in the station - wonderful food and appealing staff

Go on Nanook - take yer missus, only up the road from you

Yep! I agree - a great weekend of piss taking, drinking and eating. We did a bit of biking as well I seem to recall And I'm sorry about the Honda - but it doesn't make me a bad person.............does it?

yes i agree with everybody it was a cracking weekend. sorry i had to cut it short as i had a lot of personal thingts on my mind. it was nice to ride along with a load of motorcyclists who can ride their bikes safely and fast. i suppose its cos we are all mostly wrinklys, but we can still do some sports bikes on the twistys. thanks alan for sorting my rear end out ican ride much better now maybe next year you could head south and i could sort some good routes out, do the camping thing or what ever,cheers tony

Sorry I missed ya there MrT, I turned up on saturday, had a great few days with everyone.

After leaving Dandy and a grumpy Minty Hippo(he was fine once he had some food ), meself and wicky headed for a lap of Skye, we went to a pretty good Museum of Island life and of course had to stop at Sligachan again for more cake, I think Wicky was missing his cake discussions with PK. The weather turned really wet when we were eating cake so we decided to head for the Gaelic College that Minty and Dandy told us about, after riding up and down a ten mile stretch of rode between Eilean Iarmain and Ardvaser a few times in the worst rain I had ever ridden in (Untill the following day), we decided to head for a hotel in Ardvasar. Once we got there Wicky mentioned he had seen the college, but I don't think there was any sminkys there so we stayed put in the hotel, which was full of them (Wicky will have pics when he gets back). We could only get a double room, or that's what Wicky said , I think he secretly wants a 900 .

We got up fairly early, to get breakfast off two sminkys, and Richard, Wicky liked Richard. And headed to Mallaig on the ferry, I hate ferrys they make me sick, they have no cake, and no sminkys. We took a nice road the A861 which looped down towards the Isle of Mull, we took a little detour down a little lane to see a really nice castle ruins, on a little sand-spit in a bay, we discussed riding the bikes across the beach, but wussed out, I didn't know where we were so I couldn't get Carole Gash out to help me if I fell. After pushing on for a few miles Wicky's cake and/or sminky radar stopped us at a lovely tea house, where I left a weapon of mass destruction in the toilet. Being Mk2 riders we had to stop on the next available flat ground to top up our oil, I used 3.2 litres, Wicky used 3.8, luckily the support crew in the 4WD trucks were on hand with the oil. We discussed taking the Corran ferry, but we were enjoying the road, so we pushed on through Fort William, and straight on to Oban in heavier rain than the day before.

We managed to get a big 4 bed room in a hostel in Oban, which was run by a nutter, a perfect match for Wicky. I think she got a bit worried when he told her we had met on the internet, but she let us stay all the same. After a couple of pints we had a curry, and while both were great, the lack of sminky was a bit dissappointing. A bit of abuse by a Rangers supporting barman, who clearly doesn't like the Irish, or bikers, and especially not Irish bikers, finished the night off nicely, and we retired, pissed to the beds.....................seperately.

Waking up to the heaviest rain yet, even heavier than the rain on the previous two days combined , we packed up and headed to The Green Welly Stop in Tyndrum for my final cake of the holidays. The cake was great, and the Cullen Skink was greater, and the tour bus of sminkys made it the perfect farewell.

I headed straight home to Edinburgh, to dry off, and Wicky was heading back to the highlands for more cake, and more sminky, I'm sure he'll have his fill.

Great story Emmett

TDM Scotland Pics as promised

Edited by dandywarhol, 22 September 2006 - 09:16 am.

Link's not working right Dandy

By the way Dandy, I forgot to mention how 900 yo looked in the photo on the rock.

Edited by Emmett, 21 September 2006 - 09:50 pm.

Dandy the link is asking for a user id and passwork.
TAM

Yeah - linky dink mentions invalid cookies - it must require cake instead.

Oh, and excellent reporting Emmett. Once again I had my fellow co-workers popping their heads up out of their little work cubicles like inquisitive meer cats, wondering what I was laughing at this time.

Great stuff.

Does the link work now?

TDM Scotland Meetup

Y'mean when I was hanging on for grim death on that 1000 foot precipice

Yep

Excellent pics, good effort Alan!

ditto..it was only a week ago and i was riding up to the highlands with a top bunch of lads & we were all giving the tdms some pain.THEN in the middle of knowhere we stopped and had CAKE

Is Rob1 pushing you to your doom or trying to save you?

saving of course,i only give helping hands.

jaysus 11 days of madness ! i managed 1,700 miles afore the steel belts were peeping thru on the rear Z6, luckily the alarm took out all the electrics when it got wet and yet again (just like las year) i got recovered all the way home...........10 hour trip with No.7 being towed on a trailer ahind an aging Escort Diesel estate car at up ta 100mph !!! this long "TDM recovery journey" resulted in excellent oil consumption figures................



pics to follow..

Admit it Wicky, you just couldn't be bothered riding home from Ullapool

Johnny W

Good to hear ya made it back ok, how was the rest of the week?

Sounds and looks loike you lot had way to much fun, cake and sminkies!

Wicky just loikes getting recovered from Scotland cos it gives him 10 uninterrupted hours to work his magic....resulting in a very tired driver whos just ready to fall into bed!

Boop

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