SCENIC SCOTLAND MOTORCYCLE TOUR: KTM 1290 Super Adventure R & BMW R 1200 GS Exploration

Join us on an adventure through the stunning landscapes of Scotland on a unforgetable motorcycle tour. Experience the breathtaking views of rolling green hills, historic castles and amazing highlands.

The scenic roads of Scotland provide the perfect backdrop for a thrilling and unforgettable motorcycle experience. Despite a few rainy days early in our tour we were lucky with mostly good riding weather.

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Thank you Prepare for an extraordinary motorcycle tour as we unveil the captivating beauty of Scotland so we’re the only bikes up here join us on an incredible journey cruising through historic roads iconic tourist attractions and even filming locations for major Hollywood movies Our journey will begin in Ken Ryan and over the next six days we will explore the best that Scotland has to offer Thank you Ah writing these fairs is always such a joy especially offloading everyone uh usually the motorcycles are first but today we’re kind of stuck in the middle and all that exhaust tube coming in people are starting the engine still and they’re still on the boat really annoying and then it just takes a while

To get through security anyway we are in Scotland right now and also the first few meters in Scotland uh the rest of the day is probably not gonna be too exciting we’ll have to make our way up North about 200 kilometers to go hopefully it’s going to get a little

Nicer towards the end but for the first uh hour and a half at least we’ll be on fast motorways again but uh check out the weather it’s really nice 23 degrees in Scotland we’re uh stuck in Monday night traffic near Glasgow finally we’re off the fast Motorway in

Scotland and we just hit some smaller roads we talked to some Irish people in the pub covering the multitude of topics in one of them in Scotland and I said yeah if you like Ireland it’s like Ireland on steroids so let’s see this uh Scotland holds up to that promise

We stated the town of tindrome enjoyed the few local beers and some fish and chips and later that night we ventured out to try some Scottish whiskey We’re leaving early today it’s 8 o’clock in the morning no breakfast because we have lots of stuff we want to see it’s better again it really start into the day today is 345 kilometer day right will take us from tindrome to Dorney and we will explore some of the major tourist

Attractions on the way we’re entering the road that was featured in the James Bond movie Skyfall and it’s the Dead End Road so at seven and a half kilometer in and turn around the road that takes you to Loch a thief is called glenative Road located in the

Western part of the Scottish Highlands locketif is a stunning Lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains this road is a one-way track and can be quite narrow not wide enough for two cars in 2012 the road to the lake was featured on the James Bond movie Skyfall We just saw the train over the viaduct that was featured in the Harry Potter movies and yeah we’re not the only ones that wanted to see it they were parked there and you can still see there’s lots of Camper vans but just a lot of people and lots of traffic on these roads

Yeah we’re gonna try and Define something to eat we haven’t eaten breakfast yet and it is 11 20 in the morning haven’t you had coffee Geez do you wanna lose so longness is to my rights the lake it goes for a very long distance all the way North we’re gonna go to the left side of it and there’s quite a few kilometers North somewhere in the middle of it should be

A castle we’ll check that out and we’re going to turn around and then go back the other way so we’re not gonna go around the lake or anything but we’ll have a peek uh and check it out find the sea monster in here Yeah this is just a straight mostly straight road but still the scenery is absolutely spectacular here so the good thing was because we left so early is that we have an ETA of four o’clock this is about the earliest in fact so far we’re gonna

Check out a couple things on the way so maybe it’s 25 by then we’ll be able to make it real easy to remind uh wow check this out oh this is this is cool that’s really nice this is much more like it um really cool oh that’s a big deal

Yeah this is the only way in this or in that direction and there’s always people bitching about stuff nothing I don’t care but we’re not getting annoyed with the rest of the game here so the point of fighting a motorcycle I think they’re cool people or two cool doctor a little serious

Serious serious um damn with the crane sitting there oh Crush Cook wanted damn um well I just hope no one got hurt in this one crazy so these guys are sitting here so that looks like no one got hurt so how long have you guys been waiting here how long have you been okay I think I think for an hour maybe apart

You know yeah but it does look like at the moment you can’t well they’ve left since I got here they’ve lifted the back end of the Laureate okay and then they’ve moved the crane down to the front to the listing the car right now so don’t think it’ll be too much longer

Yeah maybe maybe going back it’s gonna take even longer right I don’t even know if there’s another way to get there right yeah yeah well actually Dorney would be enough for tonight but yeah I would wait if you go back go away yeah it’s gonna take forever right I think think

They shouldn’t be too much longer okay you always have a coffee and chill we’ve got coffee with us so we’re good So guys we’ve been standing here literally for 15 minutes or something feels like 15 it’s probably wasn’t quite 15. there were so many cars backed up both directions let’s start with the other side we’ve been sitting here I mean we can’t really complain when the front in line but they’re just emptying

Out one lane rather than going you know a couple cars here a couple cars there because all that traffic is going to pile up back there anyway so it looks like our turn so there it is there is truck there is truck there’s we’re in front of the line so it should

Bother us too much so we’re coming up to our next nothing last site for today the castle which is right on this Lane The alien Donna is probably the most photographed Fortress in the whole of Scotland and it has been featured in movies such as James Bond the castle guards are small island deep in the Scottish Highlands an arch Graystone Bridge connects the castle with the mainland so apparently this Castle

Is the third most visited Castle the Eileen Donan castle in Scotland on number one is the one that Eric Burr which we’re not going to see on this trip so we’re getting a bit closer accommodation and probably Coastline again foreign Foreign 423 kilometers in the single day in Scotland that’s the long route there’s a way to cut that short to 370 which we will likely do it’s it’s about 8 45 now early in the morning and I don’t think we’re gonna get through traffic and the roads that quickly to do all of it

So our day starts in blockchain where we stayed last night it’s a really cute little town there wasn’t a lot of choice on here but this ended up really being a nice place it was a bit more expensive than the average location I think I paid 130 pounds that’s that’s not cheap for

Sinking person to pay here it is main season so that’s the reason why but it’s a really cool Little Harbor Town and we had a great night had a wild War at haggis burger that was actually quite good a few Pines and then we call it an early night

Because we were quite tired but for some reason I was quite tighter too because we have a really long day ahead of us today now this is what it looks like now we’ll go into the Isle of Skye today this is going to be the majority of a tour today Thank you Thank you foreign The Isle of Skye is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the inner Hebrides of Scotland it lies off the West Coast about level with the highlands Capital Inverness Thank you Because the deputy was ever met from at our first coffee break here that little place behind us there aren’t many places here on the IELTS guy so it’s the first place that we saw it turned off and the head of coffee it is 12 30 now

And we decided to do the larger round the 415 kilometer tour for today we’re 280 kilometers left and we got about half the day already behind us we gotta get going it’s gonna be a long day so we’re still on the Isle of Skye at the moment

How long have you been on the river to one week one and a half weeks yeah My dad’s gonna camp on here like four down not long enough so I’ll park the bike up put everything in this bag hold me back I call Wild camping midches last night horrendous yeah these little flies here I was just yeah yeah just absolute swarms of them so what do you do when

You got do you have a net or something like a beekeeper’s hat yeah with a thing down there balaclava yeah spray and it’s still one that he had to literally go into the tent and zip it oh wow yeah I’ve heard I had just a taste of that last night

But I’m sure it’s a lot worse when you’re out camping somewhere it depends where you are I was near the river yeah in a valley um not much wind I think tonight I’ll be okay we’ll put up a mountain yeah it’s probably the only victim to the sorry

Comments like everyone’s like let’s go for this guy over everything as well but it’s still fine but yeah I know and it starts to itch everywhere doesn’t it yeah it was just like a black cloud Millions yeah that was a really good view from uh

So the entry point to the Isla sky and I got hopefully some nice time lapses up in the air because the clouds they look so awesome and the clouds are moving over the mountain and uh it’s now from the 17 degrees we had before in the sun

It’s 25 degrees and I’m cooking so it’s time to go uh we’re gonna leave the island now and the next thing we have on our list is the Apple cross pass so we’ll go there and Sebastian’s ready to go so am I so uh we’re entering the Apple cross pass and

There are no Camper vans allowed in here which is nice we’re not quite sure if we’re going to see something if we see clouds up there the highest pass I think in Scotland wow okay that is impressive not so much to road but the view and I mean the wind

Wow wow wow wow very nice it’s very very cool foreign Pass is the closest thing in Britain to an Alpine pass in good weather conditions you can get an incredible panoramic view from the top to the Isle of Skye and the herbivian islands so we must have reached the peak to go down again So we made it up to the Apple cross pass this is the top the very top of it obviously we can’t see anything but still kind of cool to be up here so we’re the only bikes up here at the moment we had a little bit of traffic

Oncoming traffic it’s really narrow if you have like oncoming traffic you can’t really see what’s coming and there isn’t any any space to avoid traffic so that was a bit of an excitement and we can’t see anything but it’s still kind of cool to be up here so we’re gonna hang out

For a little bit and then make our way down so that’s basically the last highlight for today so I’ve got somewhere between 1680 now it sounds 80 kilometers left in our tank anyway as we enjoyed this beautiful scenery here 55 kilometers to some gas right now you

Know if it’s open or it has gas it’s just what is shown on the navigation system so pretty far out in the boons here that’s why it’s so pretty that’s why there are no sort of Camper vans other big vehicles this is super super nice

We found a lot of time on big roads and this is finally sitting where you can just enjoy the scenery it’s really nice Foreign Thank you so guys we found this really nice drive off as we’re descending down the mountain it’s really hard to get that on video really to capture the beauty of this but this is one of the highlights to be honest now this looks really really cool So as expected this is turning out to be a relatively late day for us but the estimate team survival is seven o’clock at six o’clock now so we’ve got another hour to go but we get to ride in this and it’s beautiful like the uh Evening Sun coming

In now pretty much from the side not quite golden hour yet but it’s beautiful like this so there’s something to it if you write a bit later we just have to worry about now getting something to eat because that gets harder and the later it gets a lot of

Places don’t serve after the seventh or eight o’clock even so uh we’ll figure that out when we get there first we need to get gas um I’m down to my last show summer between 30 and 40 kilometers and the next gas station is in 28 kilometers

And I just hope that that’s open there’s actually an official sign and a really big sign that was posted earlier we’re getting on video unfortunately more access to make room for motorcyclists let them pass I think that was a great design Yeah down to 30 kilometers cool um Okay first okay okay okay it’s not as close I can see all right that’s the final stretch 400 meters from my location We’ve got another 400 kilometer right in front of us today we had 415 yesterday so those are really long riding days and um we’re gonna cover the entire sort of North End of the Scottish coastline and then make our way through the highlands land inward again but we stay

In Lark is the name so straight out of the gate this is the scenery we’re looking at look at this wow Scottish Highlands in the morning beautiful well I guess we have to enjoy the cool weather because by the time we get home this weekend it will be 35 degrees Germany another hot

Summer and wow The city is awesome this is It’s a Thursday by the way in case you wonder I keep forgetting the days too I actually have to look them up it’s a very good sign that you know you’re fully immersed in your travels if you’re having trouble figuring out what day of the week is so it’s Thursday so

We only have a few more days left and you know this morning I just came to realize that again so we really have to savor the last few days that we have on this island um and it’s really the last good writing day in Scotland fast because from tomorrow on

We’ll be moving south and it’s with the exception of One National Park that we’re going to stop by it’s really just a straight shot down back to England and initially I’d planned to go to Edinburgh and maybe see the town a little bit but I’m not really into seeing big places

And also half a day isn’t really enough to that place Justice that’s for another day so I reroute it and I’m bypassing Edinburgh now but as a straight shot down to the Lake District in England which is sort of that Prime area of England’s um to ride a motorcycle in and since we’re

So close sort of um that’s going to be the last bit we will see so we’re gonna make it to the list District area and then on the day where we have to catch the ferry on Saturday we’ll be cruising around the lake District at the water hall and then the

Overnight here is going to take us back to Rotterdam where we will land Sunday morning but we both have a long day to get back home so we see other Riders on the road Switzerland okay so there are no specific sites on our tour today you know you normally had some a castle

Or a sighting Sports any of that it’s none of that uh on the next planet well actually 300 kilos to get the first 100 kilometers already under our belt this is it that’s the highlight it’s the scenery around us on that 400 kilometer rights are spotted today wow hello It’s a nice Bridge and there’s a little puffy place and I think we’re going to stop there and have bottled perfect we’ve been looking for one of those for a while now so the roads are fast today so we are through the first 130 kilometers already and it’s 11 o’clock at the first

Coffee shop it’s really cool bridge that you see behind me the Kyle’s cool bridge I think that’s pronounced so we’re gonna have some coffee and the kalescue bridge is a visually striking and technically Innovative modern concrete bridge in a remote rural location the early use of the curved

Form for the bridge enabled the character of the surrounding landscape to be preserved I have about 250 kilometers left on our tour for today and finally it started raining and we’re almost getting disappointed here just experience in Scotland and sunshine only but finally it’s the weather that you would expect

Oh no just fine little drizzle rain it’s not really bad but it’s wet enough that I change gloves and the roads are getting wet now too so the the furthest North we go the worst the weather is going to be actually the Ryder we met yesterday said exactly that as equal North

Chances of this weather are a lot more likely so just for orientation we’re on the upper part of Scotland Curry Mountain Roads almost the top part of where this tour is going to take us whoa oh lots of cars okay now it must be very popular here there’s

As much traffic gets to be a scene the whole day until it’s good enough it looks like a proper Beach nice water too absolute against button foreign Beach that is not something you would expect in the north of Scotland we’re at the very top end of the North Coast of Scotland and this

Looks like a proper Beach could be in the Caribbean for all that matters I’ll add a couple of degrees Celsius too then some sunshine and there you go wow very nice indeed so it looks like the weather is improving now too we’re at the very North End of the Scottish coastline

Oh we’ve got zip line going on here too for The Thrill Seekers cool I guess that’s quite a popular spot here I see why that is so yeah we spent a lot of time doing exactly this it’s negotiating that single track load um trying to get past these big Camper

Vans at when you can usually the lettuce which is nice The Kyle of tongue bridge and Causeway in Scotland are remarkable for the engineering accomplishment they connect the mainland to the Kyle of Tong enhancing accessibility to this remote area Yeah let’s see how these little thinks in your helmet even if they’re gone still feels like they’re there everything’s itching and something like something is finding You Under The Helmet yeah I’ve got this like Thank you foreign Thank you So about 700 meters out from tonight’s accommodation this is the last full day of Scotland and small roads we have some bits tomorrow uh National Park couple castles coming up but most of the time what we spend on faster motorways to get down to England so again it’s been an amazing day important We’re leaving Scotland today and we’re gonna ride all the way from almost the northern part of Scotland down to the Lake District Ambleside in England that’s 500 80 kilometers today we’re gonna do a little detour to a national park in Scotland check out a couple castles and the

National park itself but the rest is going to be mowed away yeah we’re here in the slide dressing Lane 14 degrees and honestly uh I’m gonna enjoy it as long as I can because we’re expecting about 35 degrees Celsius down in England actually all the south of England is

Going to get hit by another Heat Wave so we’re gonna enjoy the cool the wet as long as we can oh we left the motorway to enjoy some of the smaller roads in Scotland before we finally leave this country and it’s 18 to 19 degrees now

And it’s much nicer than when we left in the north see that part of Northwood hotels so we’re here in this part of the what is it Southeast um Scotland I’m gonna enjoy some of the nicer roads here the can Gomes National Park is home to one quarter of Scotland’s native Forest

One third of the UK’s land above 600 meters and a quarter of the rare and endangered species in the UK The scenic route through the park gave an amazing Vista of the beautiful scenery Thank you Foreign and enjoy this amazing view The king gorms National Park covers approximately 4 500 square kilometers of diverse and Scenic Terrain in Scotland it is the largest national park in the United Kingdom foreign Thank you the cold Castle is a historic Scottish Castle nestled in the heart of the Karen Gomes National Park located near the village of Bremer and aberdeenshire Now the problem with going through with cities like this is to get stuck in the traffic and it’s 26 degrees it feels like you’re getting the thumbs up everywhere lots of people give us a thumbs up on the bike so I’m about to enter if you’re not already in the Lake District in

England didn’t we notice where we crossed one of Scotland to England but we left the motorway a little while back and we have a few kilometers of smaller roads now so we get up to accommodation so it’s gonna be 6 30 by the time we get there Stone pass is a mountain pass in the English Lake District with an altitude of 454 meters it is the district’s highest pass traversed by a paved Road foreign ERS forgot the name of the place Michelle’s gonna show up in a minute it looks like a little Posh little town The town of Ambleside is nestled in the Scenic Lake District set beside Lake Windermere it offers a gateway to stunning natural beauty and Outdoor Adventures The ambicide was also the town where we spent our last night in the United Kingdom before heading back to Europe’s mainland foreign Right now where we stayed a pretty cute little town quite happening looks beautiful in the morning too when it’s all quiet it’s a really warming day yesterday more than 30 degrees it’s nice and cooled at 20. so we’ll be going through the Lake District some of the nicer sort of

Motorcycle roads that this area has to offer yesterday we got a peak and to one of the passes where I crushed my sky deal drone unfortunately so we won’t have that drone with us but we got most of the shots for this trip so that’s a good thing I could have

Crashed it right in the beginning now I need to see if I can get that fixed somehow anyway so it’s gonna be a few rounds and in the Lake District early in the morning hopefully eating the majority of the traffic it’s a Saturday and then we’ll have to cross over to the east

Side to catch the ferry in Hull that will bring us then to Rotterdam oh check out these small little roads but the good thing is that they’re so small they’re off the beaten path is wow look at this beautiful so I put a lot of work into there the gardening

Nice I’m glad we put this uh into the trip because that would have been a shame to miss all this very beautiful area so when navigation systems indicating it’s the next sort of major pass is the wind rose pass and see there’s enough room for motorcycles to get past

Uh it must be coming up over there The Rhinos pass is a Mountain Road in the Lake District with steep climbs sharp turns and amazing views it’s a challenging yet rewarding drive that shows off the rugged landscape don’t need to be strong This is it uh we’re gonna hit the ferry here in just a few minutes we’re back in Hall after a long day of riding in like 30 something degrees C so it’s really really hot today we’re still early it’s like 5 30ish something and let me Define the ferry

Key important card you will need sugar bowling cardigan okay okay cool thank you very much bye Hello there whoops flying in Absolutely I was in here somewhere hold on looks a lot nicer than when we came here it was like rainy and overcast and now it’s sunny and nice [Applause] Thank you