Author: Grant Anderson

A great run today organised by Ian McIntosh. Six of us met up at Crieff - Frank Dolan, Alan Graham, Alex Muir, Ian McIntosh, an old friend Ian Muir and myself. We headed via Lochearnhead and Crianlarich to Glencoe then the short hop over the Corran ferry. Once off the ferry we stopped for a spot of lunch at the wee lunch van, and a catch up blether. For a change we then headed up the west side of Loch Linnhe and along the south side of Loch Eil - a great, perfectly surfaced single track road. It was then along to Banavie where we turned left up the road by Neptune's Staircase locks, another great single track road that brings you out at the Commando Monument just north of…

It was rather cold at 5 degrees when I left Cumbernauld on my Tiger 900 at 8.15 to head up to Crieff Visitor Centre (with heated jacket and gloves on as well as heated grips, all of which were to remain switched on all day!) for what I anticipated would be an interesting run. Unusually for me I was first to arrive, closely followed by Ian Ness on his Tiger, Charlie Robertson on his RT 1200, Frank Dolan on his NT1100 and Kona on her newly serviced Yamaha Tracer. Finally, the person that lives closest to the start point rolled in on his Africa Twin. It just shows that if an unusual run is put on then it does draw people out, even although the forecast was cold with rain…