Riding Scotland: Green Welly to Oban then coast road to Inveraray on a stunning clear day.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Possibly our favourite ride out of our 2021 Scotland Tour. Set your device to view in the highest setting👍👍
This route should really go in our Best Biking Roads collection.
The Yamaha MT10 and Triumph Street Triple proved ideal for this route. Its stunningly beautiful, fast in place, technical and about as much fun as you can have riding a motorcycle.
Timestamps
00.00 Green Welly Start
05.10 Cruachan Dam any hydro electric
06.06 Why I use insta 360 instead of Gopro
08.56 MT10 Passes a petrol station and doesn't stop!
09.15 Enter Oban
09.45 Oban Motorcycle Parking
11.50 Oban Tesco Fuel
14.00 Stunning road (music)
16.43 Riding next to the sea
18.44 MT10 overtaking power
20.08 Cottage with an amazing view
20.54 Arrive at Inveraray Drone shots
Stunning roads and stunning weather! How do you do it! 😀👍
Just lucky, you did better than us in Wales.
Look forward to catching your latest adventure on the TV tonight
Honestly you lot are definitely getting some of the best weather around so fair play 😂 you two crack me up, only as old as you feel 🤘 the footage is top form mate honestly I really enjoy it ☺️ you’ve definitely inspired me to go and tour Scotland on the bike, lovely sights, gorgeous roads, just perfect riding 👏
Well I'm rapidly approaching 60 but honestly when I get my gear on and climb on a motorbike, I feel exactly like I did on my RD250LC in 81.
This day in particular was a day everything came together. Brilliant weather, empty roads, great bikes and filming gear that just worked with no suicidal fly splats. I shall enjoy watching this back in a few years when maybe I can't swing a leg over a motorbike.
Cheers and take care
@@Banditmanuk Love that mate, honestly I’m really loving all this tour footage, excited to see when you go next 🤘
Such a lovely route road, spent many a day up and down that road over the years 👍
Definitely in our top 5 roads.👍👍
Thanks for treating us. That was beautiful and the roads looked like a bikers dream. Another cracking video, my friends 👌🏼
Thank you sir, always appreciate the comments from a great channel such as yours.
Riding in Scotland is definitely on my to do list now
Stunning when the weather is like this👍
Lovely roads, haven’t been up there for a while but the roads to Inveraray are all good on a day like that😎👍.
Few better places to ride when the weather is good 👍 👍
Great roads and fantastic views. What a fantastic tour.
You even remembered to book good weather!
Thanks, yes weather was with us on this one.
Wow. Great smooth road & fantastic weather. I agree that it is probably better than Spain when the weather is nice.
Hope it holds out weather wise when you get there. Congratulations on the 1K subs on your channel 👏 Cheers and take care.
As always great footage and content, when I was in Oban earlier this year we were not as lucky with weather got totally soaked. Your route was a better than the one we chose, we ended up doing same roads most days back to hotel at loch Awe.
Keep them coming always enjoy watching.
Thanks for watching and the kind words, we were very lucky with the weather, all the filming equipment kept working, no flys splattered themselves on the lens so all came together.
We always try to get a nice circular route if possible and are always grateful to our pal upfront who often plans the routes
What more could anybody want fantastic view roads and sunshine to top it off wow I am sooo jealous . If you wanted to sell biking to anyone who doesn't now anything about it this should do the trick : ) cheers.
What a great comment thank you.
I think the insta footage is as good as anything else out at the moment (for what your doing). Do what's best for you but please don't stop making us films !!!
Thanks Neil. We do actually make these films for ourselves to look back on in a few years, the places we've been and things we've done. It's nice if others also enjoy watching. 👍👍
It's really a good feeling when everything works out. Not a lot of those days come around. You where lucky which such a nice trip.We had one weekend in Luxemburg like you this year. The only thing we came around was detours because of a bicycle race. And you had some road works.
Simply stunning, the footage, the scenery, the drone work, the weather, doesn't get any better than that. Carol's Triumph sounds awesome as the revs climb. Loving the 360 as others have said before, thanks for sparing us all those 'special effects' they are capable of. Do you think the Pico's is worth a punt next year? I have a voucher that I have to spend by July.
Thanks Paul, yes it all came together for this vid. You know as I was editing I thought that about Carol's bike. Sounds better than mine under hard acceleration!
As for the Picos, yes go for it👍 I'm pretty sure Brittany Ferries won't allow me to push our tickets back again as we have the economy ones so hopefully we will be going next year.
I did the Picos in May 2014 on my Blackbird and although the scenery is spectacular at times, the weather can also be awful. Up high, it was 1degC and we had snow, but at lower altitude it was lovely, but was it better, than Richard and Carol's trip in Scotland? I'd say no. Just my view obviously. Let's face it, the best biking is almost always determined by the weather.
@@RichardASK Yep weather weather makes or breaks a biking holiday. A few years ago the same 4 of us rode down through France did the Millau Bridge and rode down to Carcassonne. For a couple of days there it was simply too hot to ride!
We had the same in the Picos, rode up the N621 to the deer statue one day it was 26C full sun and yet the following day we needed to do 150 miles south going again past the deer statue toward Rhiano and it was 3C and rain and snow!
The thing is with us UA-camrs we tend to only show the good stuff!
@@RichardASK No arguement from me on any of the points you've mentioned. I went to the Picos in 2018 and 2019 in July, and even at that time of year it was 5'C between the peaks and the valleys. I've been very lucky with the weather, I only had a couple of days rain. I'd love to try Scotland, but the 7 hour plus sat on a motorway just to get to Glencoe fills me with dread...and then of course there is the uncertainty of the weather.
Lucky with weather and great roads
Probably the best weather we've had in Scotland. Absolutely yes, great roads and not to busy
A great part of the world 😁 fantastic ride 😁🤘🏼
Thanks we loved it up there
Amazing video and looks amazing in 4K 😊😊
Thanks Miles, appreciate you saying. We are doing our best to get the best video and audio we can and this Insta 360 One X2 is proving to be a great camera.
You have a very visible top box. :) This was a nice ride. Enjoyed it. Thumb up. :)
Yes supposed to match the wheels. It serves a purpose when away but looks awful. Luckily I don't care 🙂
@@Banditmanuk You are more visible and this is max for safety. Do not care of the color. :).
there's some lovely audio from Carols bike when she gives it the beans during overtakes
Yes, makes s great noise that bike, sounds better than mine really
@@Banditmanuk I didn't like to say 😊
@@Banditmanuk Easily cured Mr. Bandit Sir, did I mention Race Fit or Yoshi?? 😁
Fabulous vid. yet again. Thank you.
Thanks again for watching, appreciate it
Beautiful roads and oh man that weather. That never happens. Nice call on the picos postponing.
Yep we were lucky with the weather. Those roads are some of our favourite all time.
Here's hoping the Picos works out next year.
Thanks for watching
Great video. Your audio sounds excellent, and that is definitely the best way to use those Insta's, just the one lens in use.
I have to say, I'm not overly impressed with mine. Fiddly to edit if you want the 360 effects, and absolutely terrible in the wet. Those lenses get filthy very quickly.
Bikes sound lovely when you both make em sing !!👍👍
Filming in 150 view saves loads of time in the edit, I use now more as a single lens stabilised action cam.
If I'm filming in 360 I like to keep the footage short as like you say it's a laborious and labour intensive editing it.
As for filming in the wet, I just don't want to do it, looks awful, not enough light enters the camera. If I absolutely needed to film in the rain with audio I would get my old super reliable Gopro 4 back on the job.
A superb video. Having spent many years racing as you know, I am genuinely impressed by Carol and your road positioning for bends, my goodness the girl has got good! Time for a track day to embarrass the young heroes perhaps? This video underlined the problem of riding in a group where the fastest riders dictate speed, unless its with my sons who ride to known preferences, I stopped going on rides with groups except Club Rides on cruisers as I find it a pain. Not having a pop at your companions, it just rang a bell so to speak!
Carol will ride her own ride that she's comfortable with. Our friends were not far ahead and we've ridden with these guys for many years and completely trust them.
At the end of the day we ride for the enjoyment. We all knew where we were heading and to be honest in our little group I don't think anyone ever feels pressure to go faster than they want.
As for track days.... maybe one day.
Always good to hear from you Paul
@@Banditmanuk My bad. Put 2+2 together and got 5. It reminded me of the many (many) times I really wanted to look at the views and all the others decided to have a road race! It was the trigger that eventually prompted me to do world adventure rides solo so not a bad thing in retrospect.
From the green Welly to oban is one of my favourite roads know it like the back of my hand. The road from Lix toll to tyndrum was another banger until some kill joy covered it in average speed cameras. Too many people in the UK sleep on Scotland for biking, often preferring to go to Southern France or Spain. Our bad weather gets blown way out of proportion and if you go any time from mid April till mid October you have a good chance of it at least being dry if not overly warm.
We love riding Scotland. On this trip we were based in Killin so were well aware of those cameras. Didn't spoil the enjoyment of riding your beautiful country
18:45 That's why we love our MT10s isn't it?
Absolutely, not much accelerates quicker!
@@Banditmanuk Exactly.
You missed out on THE best fish and chips in the world..just round the corner to your right where you parked in Oban..George Street chippy...you have to try it next time up there....Best roads in the world
Bit early for Fish and Chips, it was only about 9.00am when we got in Oban. I've made a mental note for next time, we will definitely be back
Hi, just out of interest, how many spare batteries do you carry for the insta360? I am 50/50 whether I'm going to keep mine as I used it as a "point back at me" camera the other day on single direction and I was actually pretty impressed. I didn't have to do much colour correction or lift the shadows. And the added bonus of making me look thinner. hahaha. Also have you tried running the 360 with a battery pack attached to it? Like you can with the gopros? Thanks in advance mate. FastyRides.
Hi, thanks for watching. Yes I have two spare Insta 360 One X2 batteries both are slightly lower capacity than the original that came with the camera but I've found the 3 plenty sufficient for a day out on tour, they last so much longer than Gopro and the camera doesn't overheat and shut down.
The set up on the chin looks a bit of a lash up with the Insta, Rode receiver and audio adapter but I like the results and the ease I can record both carol and myself onto just one camera already synced up.
As the audio adapter already fits in where I normally charge the Insta I haven't attempted to power the camera through the port on the adapter. I'm also concerned about not getting any cables in shot when in 360.
Cheers Richard
@@Banditmanuk Thanks Richard. I must admit I am rather jealous of yours and Carols audio. It is crystal clear. And your set up is perfect for you 2. I think the rode wireless thingy you have is a great way to record you both in conversation instead of the way I do it with a load of wires inside the helmet coming from the cardo system. I think its time I bought some more batteries or try the connecting a battery pack. Thanks again buddy. Lovely roads and scenery in your video. How lucky was you have such nice weather. Fasty
@@FastyRides Think it all came together for this vid, weather, no tech glitches, no fly splats, empty roads and we were genuinely having a great time which is almost impossible to fake for the film.
Thanks for the comments and keep up the work on your channel.
cheers and best wishes Richard
@@Banditmanuk yer it really did come together. Them roads are to die for. Thanks again buddy for the help.
Mc Caig's Tower & Battery Hill .. As no one seems to have commented :)))🤣💯🤓❤🩹
It's only taken two years for someone to tell us. Appreciate you dropping a comment 🙏
HAHA... The colluseum in oban .. googled it :))))))))))))))@@Banditmanuk