Erm my warranty is up but do I care

[st4]

Not when you have the chance to drive on roads like we have up here. To celebrate one year of having her in my life I decided a small but worthy drive was in order.

Mr Grieve will know doubt recollect where these were done but for those of you who have not, I left Helensburgh, headed up Loch Lomond, over the rest and be-thankful pass and turned off and headed down towards stachur, but turned before that and went up down to Lochgoilhead (it always rains there) and then headed back over a twisty and demanding single track road and then back down the rest, down lochlomand and turned off and headed over the old MOD road to Faslane, and then home.

I can't be bothered obscuring the regi plate BTW, the car is visible on the road anyway....

It was an 80mile trip and she got 39mpg. Not bad considering she was being pushed on. :mrgreen:

-looking over to inverrary

 

[st4]

 

[Xtractorfan]

Lovely views..and apparently they dont like you leaving again..considering where the white line is on the road

 

[st4]

Lovely views..and apparently they dont like you leaving again..considering where the white line is on the road

I'd have stopped and taken some more pics as its an interesting road but nowhere safe to pull in (there's passing places but they're needed for traffic flow not for taking pics).

There is something liberating about heading up over a really quiet twisty road, away from the nanny state cameras taking your pic every 15 minutes and enjoying a more challenging type of driving.

Single track roads are wonderful, you have to think and anticipate just that wee bit further looking for a passing place to allow that oncoming car 1/2 mile away somewhere to pass.

Once again, I champion the excellent E class as it was remarkably agile over roads it really had no business being "fun" on and its oh so comfy and gutsy.

 

[delboy777]

Thats what the West Coast of Bonnie Scotland is all about, lovely roads for the bike aswell

 

[Ellsy Tanners]

Glad to hear someone enjoying there car and not moaning about it, Great stuff.

 

[st4]

Thats what the West Coast of Bonnie Scotland is all about, lovely roads for the bike aswell

Aye, bikers come down here by the shedload in summer. Sometimes they go very fast and you look in the mirror and the bike is miles behind you, 2 secs later and you here to roar and its past. Alas it wasn't speedy bikes that made today a 9/10 rather than a 10/10. It was an idiot in a Honda CRV overtaking where it wasn't safe to do so.

Glad to hear someone enjoying there car and not moaning about it, Great stuff.

Thats why we have 'em. No point posting lots of stuff on here without actually going out and enjoying the machine

 

[bigasotonuk]

Hi,
You are truelly blessed living in such beautiful part of the world, I have also been on those very roads, visiting the Naval base and the jetty further up the loch (Glen Douglas I think) towards Arrochar, shame about the bl**dy midges though.
Which reminds me, next time i,m up there we,ll have to meet for that beer or three.

 

[st4]

Hi,
You are truelly blessed living in such beautiful part of the world, I have also been on those very roads, visiting the Naval base and the jetty further up the loch (Glen Douglas I think) towards Arrochar, shame about the bl**dy midges though.
Which reminds me, next time i,m up there we,ll have to meet for that beer or three.

A sterling suggestion Andya pint @ the commodore or a "ruby special" goes down a treat :mrgreen: I can't ever bring myself to leave here, the weather is bad but the roads, scenary make up for it the few good days a year

I know the Glen Douglas well, there is a little road you can take over from Loch Long (near finnart) and head over to Loch Lomond and emerge @ the Pub @ Inverbeg, but I always do that run in the reverse way.

I haven't been over that way since summer time and the road was quite broken up then, and with this harsh winter n all it will be really bad. The A82 from Luss to Crianlarich is a complete mess, so heading up Glencoe (a favourite run of mine) will mean a bone shaker ride 1st, or some more interesting routes (3 come to mind) to cut out that section of road, but they're sizable detours.

 

[PanzerMcGrory]

Yes and what do we get for having one of the most beautiful countries in Europe?? 30 minutes from Glasgow a base in your last picture with enough nuclear weapons to wipe out half the continent,
Funny that they never dump these things in the south east of england

 

[television]

I have not been there since 1978 when we had a fabulous time,I swam in the rivers and lochs with my 2 lads who were around 10 and 12 then. Thanks for the pictures, I must come back again

 

[st4]

Yes and what do we get for having one of the most beautiful countries in Europe?? 30 minutes from Glasgow a base in your last picture with enough nuclear weapons to wipe out half the continent,
Funny that they never dump these things in the south east of england

The base is a blight, but its handy for jobs in this neck of the woods. Face it, if we start using these bombs/missiles everyone in the UK is effected so it don't matter where it is....crikey the effects of chernobyl were effected in the UK, and that was a minor nuclear accident.

Even with 10 of Faslanes we are better here than the SE England-whcih is one giant pit IMHO, I've never been so happy to turn down a job based on its location (London) and the rest of the pics do the talking....

 

[st4]

I have not been there since 1978 when we had a fabulous time,I swam in the rivers and lochs with my 2 lads who were around 10 and 12 then. Thanks for the pictures, I must come back again

its the best ever, come in off season (April May, late august september) when the school kids aren't on holiday as we alas have the blight of coach tours, caravans that make the driving less good. A rule of thumb, stick west, and head as north as you can. The pics I have taken are just a taster of what this place has to offer, and it gets better and better as you head north.

 

[bigian]

Hi and thanks for the great pics
We are going to celebrate our silver wedding on the shores of loch lochy next year so we will be able to take in some of these great views for ourselves.
Ian

 

[PanzerMcGrory]

The base is a blight, but its handy for jobs in this neck of the woods. Face it, if we start using these bombs/missiles everyone in the UK is effected so it don't matter where it is....crikey the effects of chernobyl were effected in the UK, and that was a minor nuclear accident.

Even with 10 of Faslanes we are better here than the SE England-whcih is one giant pit IMHO, I've never been so happy to turn down a job based on its location (London) and the rest of the pics do the talking....

If it doesnt matter where they are then why are they all up here? The threat from these things are from accidents and thats why they are all up here and now we are going to spent tens of billions buying the upgraded version from the yanks to act as a detterent against err em terrorists with no fixed abode.


And im afraid i never go along with the old provides jobs argument, ask the deformed children of the dead parents from far beyond chernobyl if the jobs at the plant were "handy" after the apparent "minor nuclear accident"
I still remember seeing the poor brave B#stards running in and out of that place fighting the fires with no protection fully aware that they would have a slow painful death over the next couple of days.

 

[st4]

If it doesnt matter where they are then why are they all up here? The threat from these things are from accidents and thats why they are all up here and now we are going to spent tens of billions buying the upgraded version from the yanks to act as a detterent against err em terrorists with no fixed abode..

Nicely OT. Clearly we are of different views with this but I guess its all to do with numbers, land is cheaper up here, there are less people so in the event of an accident, then less will die than if the thing was on the river thames. Why is dounrae (I can't spell) is where it is, because the population density is much smaller.

And im afraid i never go along with the old provides jobs argument, ask the deformed children of the dead parents from far beyond chernobyl if the jobs at the plant were "handy" after the apparent "minor nuclear accident"
I still remember seeing the poor brave B#stards running in and out of that place fighting the fires with no protection fully aware that they would have a slow painful death over the next couple of days.

Okay but chernoybl could have been a lot worse, its not a particularly powerful nuclear reactor and it was dealt with relatively swiftly. Where i fear is Japan where they have these power stations but also earthquakes which could cause massive damage to the reactor and leak that stuff out.

Back on topic, it was a nice day out and the pic of the base was to illustrate I'd been over that excellent road.