The #Gravelfoyle tracks today were covered in this weird powdery stuff. Could that be the mythical dust of YouTube sagas? Whatever it’s called, it makes a pleasant change from the winter, er, gloop. #Cycling

That sort of a day, a perfect bikewalk!😀 The bike computer hit 29.5C. Been meaning to do the Aberfoyle - Comer - Inversnaid loop for a while, at least 15 years since I did it last. Shockingly dry, struggled finding any water on the first 20km, nearly had to get the filter out!

#Cycling #Gravelfoyle, #Gravel #Scotland

Other than that, quite lot of the #Gravelfoyle tracks are really badly affected by forestry operations, covered by that gloopy draggy layer of thin mud that timber lorries temd to create in the damp. I also get the feeling that operations around Bruach Caorach are about to commence, which is a pity, as without that track it’s hard to link up the N and S of Duchray Water into bigger loops, that S ‘back country’ is some of the most scenic gravel in the area that is not busy with families and dogs.

Yet again let down by #Garmin Edge. 25k into a 45k route it stopped plotting the route and started issuing bogus instructions. Not first time this has happened, but today it was in a part of the #Gravelfoyle forestry tracks I am not very familiar with, and navigating by a handheld phone on a bike is not fun. (Never yet owned a Garmin product that worked well, the quality of their software is atrocious, not sure what possessed me getting the Edge in the first place, not again.) #Cycling #Gravel

First visit of the year to #Gravelfoyle. Glorious morning light today, bringing the somewhat dull colours of Scottish winter to life. I really enjoy riding around there, in spite of the mess of the ongoing forestry operations — I was hoping #ScottishForestry would leave at least the forest in the vicinity of Loch Ard alone, but it doesn’t look like it. Shame, just about the only mature forest easily accessible from the Central Belt, always teeming with families.

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