Bike aboot: Scotland - Milton to Rest and be thankful route

Sunday 25 July 2010

Scotland - Milton to Rest and be thankful route

We decided to do a run starting in the Glasgow area, this was Mauro’s 1st run with us and I came up with this route to make sure we don’t go to quick, the traffic made sure we didn’t. We met up at the services in Milton next to the Little Chef, Ann was chatting up the other bikers that came through while we waited for Jamie. Roundtrip of 78 miles.

The route:

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Stops:

Parking on Glenfruin Rd, overlooking Faslane.
Rest and be thankful
Various times behind temporary traffic lights
Lunch was @ the Crown Carveries in Milton, carvery for £2.95, great lunch!

Verdict:

Great wee route, if it wasn’t for the cars on it, the traffic on the A82 was annoying so we turned off on Glenfruin Rd, a couple of miles with great surface, no cars, fantastic! We continued on the A814 to Arrochar, another blast up the side of Loch Long and around to Rest and be thankful. The scenery was just spectacular, making it harder to avoid getting too much air and hitting the wee stone wall stopping you from driving into Loch Long.
We hit some rain on the way back, and numb nuts (aka Lawrence) thought it would be advisable to go down and drive through Cardross on the way back for lunch, bad idea, there were so many temporary traffic lights we had to occasionally switch the bikes off to stretched our legs waiting for it to turn green. At least the views of The Clyde made up for it.