bugeyeandy

Just a quick note to all our Highlanders.
You are the jammiest people - what fantastic empty roads you have all to yourselves
Drove up to Elgin on Sunday and came back via Fort William. Did a couple of hundred miles while I was up there too. The roads around Elgin/Inverness were deserted, had fantastic scenery and no speed cameras!
The drive from Inverness round Loch Ness down to Fort William was spectacular and plenty of overtaking spots for those pesky caravans.
All in all some of the best driving i've done on this fair island of ours.
Highly recommend a trip this time of year, if you keep an eye on the weather you're guaranteed a top trip

NorthDownsScooby

Should be edited to read:

"saw no speed cameras"
or
"hopefully no speed cameras"

Rich


ps can't wait to go back up to Rannoch, but in the scooby next time.

jonjo

I done a 1021 miles in 1 day earlier this month while running my car in....thats the same distance from calais to rome...

sorry for hi-jacking your thread


Joe.....

clivey

can vouch for the Highlands done loads of miles up there and all great
a good run is from Avimore to Aberdeen what a blast..........with no cameras

bugeyeandy

Have to add a small disclaimer, don't go there in the summer. Seems to me the place is set up for a tourist invasion like the ones that turn the Lake District into a caravan traffic snarl up nightmare in the summer months

p1doc

how is that physically possible!!
martin

bugeyewrx

Drive at 42.16 mph for 24 hours

Martin .

NorthDownsScooby

don't do the A9 on the east coast... loads of them... and caravans.. and tossers who think they can overtake, but can't !!

Rich

corradoboy

Relative I suppose. Wnakers in caravans + tosser who can't drive = accidents, thus cameras.

No guarantees, but I believe statistically May is the driest, sunniest month in Scotland.

matchmaker

The A82 from Inverness to Crianlarich via Fort William is a superb road. Be warned - no fixed cameras, but the Feds do lurk at various locations on the road - outside Bridge of Orchy is a favourite

matchmaker

Unless you're talking of north of Inverness, the A9 isn't on the east coast

But it has lots of cameras, caravans, Tesco artics doing 40 mph exactly, and plenty of wan$ers who overtake in the most horrendous positions

Without driving like a **** I can easily get from Stirling to Inverness up the A9 in about two and a half hours. I always seem to catch up with the lunatic overtakers north of Aviemore where the road is quieter

jonjo

04:00hrs depart dover, kent (in girlfriends clio)
07:30hrs arrive scoobyclinic
09:15hrs depart scoobyclinic (in my newly rebuilt scooby)
12:45hrs arrive dover (fuel up)
13:00hrs depart dover
16:45hrs arrive scooby clinic (500 mile oil change)
17:45hrs depart scoobyclinic (in scooby)
21:15hrs arrive dover (home)

1021 miles done.....

before anyone questions this i done it so i would know...

BigChris84

see if i would have taken the 6 joe i would have been back (home) at 19:48hrs

jonjo

get on with some work you tit...and get me a coffee...

thank you

BigChris84

I am doing work, being a more SENIOR member of staff (223, head of IT ) it is you that should be making the ****ing tea's

Thank You

p1doc

torture!
martin

Stephen Pope

Yeah, I was up that neck of the woods last week - excellent!!!!

Just a bit hard trying to find decent pertol........

lawson101

Theres a great road from the A9 to Elgin, cant remeber the number tho.

Turn off A9 at the Carrbridge turn off, turn left at T junction and then take first left at small junction on r/h bend. Follow this road straight across the moors to Elgin.

Fantastic bit of country for a blast.

Jamiemiller once posted on here about the road, look for his post and you will get the road number.

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

Inverness to Edinburgh in 1 1/2hrs - is that possible at night???

F

p1doc

i thought i was bad driving from dundee to autosport show then onto cheltenham to see ian litchfield then up to sheffield to see a mate then down to nottingham for tsl then back to dundee in 3/7
martin

matchmaker

Yes, probably

SirFozzalot

Going up to Scotland in the scoob next month...can't wait!

p1doc

i will be in skye all of may-not many roads poor petrol and supposedly harsh police!
martin

BigAl024

No

hedgehog

It is actually possible during the day as well, though you do need a suitable car. A friend consistently did Inverness - Perth (120 miles of the A9) in less than an hour over a period of many years after the new (i.e. current) A9 was built. She trashed a car through severe mechanical failure, on average, in about 6 months and always bought the fastest thing on the market to replace it. On one occasion I recall her leaving Inverness after lunch for shopping in Glasgow and being back for dinner.

Since the introduction of all the cameras and the enforcement of the 40mph limit for HGVs I believe the A9 is now being billed as "the most dangerous road in Scotland" and a high proportion of the accidents are head on collisions during overtaking. From one of the fastest and safest roads in the UK to one of the slowest and most dangerous in one simple step.

jonjo

not bad mate... just dedication

bugeyewrx

Never said would be pleasant

Martin .

360ste

iTrader: (1)

In the clear and dry possibly. I work near Elgin and can easily get down to Manchester in 5 and a half hours leave at 5am, miss all rush hour traffic arrive Bolton 10.30. Only stopping for fuel for me and the car at Abington Services on the A74m.
To answer another comment the road between Avimore and Elgin via Rothes is excellent, The A9 from Aviemore to perth has 3 speed camera in each direction and vans are out there sometimes. So keep your eyes peeled and have fun.

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

Harvester at Inverness to Ski slope in Edinburgh in that time, could have been less 'theoretically'... One camera would needed to have been highlighted by oncoming helpfull drivers. It would have had to have been a fast average speed. A best drive to rival a good lap of the 'Ring with little traffic, even?

F