Is this like an evening looking at someones holiday slideshow?
These are all taken up the Lammermuir hills, close to where I live. My off road riding skills are pretty limited, and my arse was going like a rabbit's nose riding the middle of those rutted bits. The GS is pretty good on open, land rover tracks, but its a big, heavy and expensive bike to be chucking down a hill. So for real off roading I'd go for a more dedicated bike. Like the guy below.
Faithir took this photo of the Massif on the pier at Achiltibuie. 2007
GS at the top of Stelvio. 2007
My fat puss ruining the view of Stelvio.
Thats better.
The other side of Stelvio.
GS at Loch Eribol. 2006
Doing my laundry in Slovenia. 2007
Winton Massif at Tibbie Sheil's, St Marys Loch. 2009.
Butt of Lewis, 2010.
This last bunch were all taken on the Winton Massif 2010 Scotland tour which included the Outer Hebrides. These pictures are from Barra, one of the more southern of the islands. The beach with the plane on it is the Airport, the beach is the runway! While we were over there we rode down over the causeway to Vatersay to see the crashed Catalinia. It crashed during WW2 and is a war grave.
My GS and Fers's XT outside Dunard Hostel, Barra.
The Winton Massif at Gills Bay waiting for the ferry to Orkney. This was where we met out German member, Wolfgang.
Big Wolfgang and his GS.
Big Wolfgang and his GS.
At the Scotland/England border.
Is there more???
Ohhhhh yes.......
That Stelvio road looks very impressive? it looks incrediable, ever tried it on s sports bike?
ReplyDeleteGreat pics....loved the plane on the beach.
Stelvio is pretty good. It's over in Italy so I've only managed to rife it once. Theres loads of bikes there though from Fireblades to Harleys. I think the most fun thing to take up would be a supermoto or similar. That would be great fun!
ReplyDeleteTechnicaly the Swiss side is called the Stilfserjoch and the Italian side the Stelvio, the Stelvio has the much tighter hairpins GHC
ReplyDeleteYer ring. Stilfserjoch is just its German name.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelvio_Pass