Scotland is a fantastic country to cycle in with such a variance of scenery and multiple cycle tracks, forest tracks and quiet roads. Cycle as a family, a group on your own or with just a few friends. There is a wide range of accommodation available for tourists that participate in the "Cyclists Welcome" scheme. They provide additional services to assist the cyclist and their specific needs.
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Thursday 24 May 2007
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Bike Scotland Book One: 40 great routes from Central Scotland
From Pocket Mountains, the publisher of Scotland's best-selling mountain walking guides, comes Bike Scotland: Book One by Fergal MacErlean. This beautifully designed little guide contains 40 bike routes, all starting and finishing at train stations in Central Scotland. Areas covered include Fife, Perthshire, Glasgow, Loch Lomond and the Clyde Islands, Edinburgh and the Lothians, and Falkirk and Stirling. Each route is accompanied by stunning photography, full-colour sketch maps and additional facts about the history, geology and wildlife of the area.
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Scotland: The National Cycle Network (National Cycle Network Route)
Unveiled in the year 2000, the National Cycle Network currently provides more than 7000 miles of cycling routes throughout Britain, with the figure expected to rise to 10,000 miles by 2005. Harry Henniker's book, covering the Scottish part of the National Cycle Network, is a comprehensive guide to the many routes to be explored. Integrated in colour throughout with clear, user-friendly maps and route trajectories, it provides cyclists with advice on what to take on particular rides, the best places to stay and the sights that must be seen. Whether using the Network for a cycling holiday, a day trip, or as an alternative route to work, all the information cyclists will ever need is contained within these pages. "Scotland: the National Cycle Network" has guides to over 50 routes across mainland Scotland, with each chapter covering a different region. The areas covered include Edinburgh-Carlisle, Glasgow-Inverness, Aberdeen-Edinburgh, Inverness-John O'Groats and Glasgow-Carlisle.
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The Ultimate Scottish Cycling Book
This volume deals with cycle-touring in Scotland. Much more than just a set of directions, the author's own experience on each route is described in an entertaining narrative, and detailed route information is featured to allow readers to follow the routes for themselves. The commentary accompanying every route in this book should inspire readers to set off and get to know Scotland both on and off the beaten track. Through following any of these routes, cyclists will encounter events and places that have played an important but lesser-known role in the bigger Scottish picture. The routes take in everything one would expect from a holiday in Scotland but reveal unexpected little-known gems in addition. SUSTRANS have filled in crucial gaps in the quiet roads with dedicated cycle paths and the awareness amongst the tourist industry of the needs of cyclists has never been higher. Every aspect of travelling with a bike is covered and each route is carefully constructed to make the cyclist feel safe and remove the need for expensive and inconvenient car hire. It features nine of the best routes that cyclists of any level will find possible and enjoyable.
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Cycling in Scotland Books
This cycling guide covers the whole of Scotland, from the Orkney Islands to Dumfries and Galloway. It contains a variety of routes including mountain bike courses, quiet road routes and rides for children. It explores both popular and less well-known areas and includes many mountain bike routes previously unpublished in book form. It also provides instructions for the new bike paths in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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Cycling in Scotland Books
Features detailed descriptions of mountain-bike routes from all over Scotland, chosen for variety, interest for all abilities and for scenery. Maps and photographs are accompanied by advice on the terrain and any special equipment required.
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Cycling in Scotland Books
By Bicycle in Scotland captures the timeless feel of leisurely cycle touring on some of Scotland's half forgotten roads and upland tracks. This thoroughly well researched and written book has been reissued due to popular demand.
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Mountain Biking in Scotland
A mountain bike holiday in Scotland is a great way to see and enjoy the beautiful countryside of Scotland. Some of the best mountain biking in Europe can be found in the mountains and forest tracks of Scotland. Cycle as a family, a group on your own or with just a few friends. There is a wide range of accommodation available for tourists that participate in the "Cyclists Welcome" scheme. They provide additional services to assist the cyclist and their specific needs.
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Mountainbike Scotland: The Highlands
This is a mountain biking guidebook to Scotland. It includes 50 selected routes, single and multi-day routes, spread over the whole of the Highland region, i.e. Argyll, the Southern, Central and Northern Highlands and the Cairngorms.
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Southern Scotland and the 7stanes: Bikefax
This tightly packed guidebook manages to cram in the beta for over 50 rides
in the region. With full route descriptions, detailed trail maps, local information and inspirational full colour photographs, this guide is as happy at home on the coffee table as it is out on the trail. If you think you've done every trail in the area, then this guide will force you to think again.
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101 Mountain Bike Routes in Scotland
Features detailed descriptions of mountain-bike routes from all over Scotland, chosen for variety, interest for all abilities and for scenery. Maps and photographs are accompanied by advice on the terrain and any special equipment required.
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Bike Scotland Trails Guide: 40 Best Routes in Scotland
Now there is a guide that does Scottish cycling justice. Richard Moore and Andy McCandlish's beautifully produced book is part of the Pocket Mountains series, and combines insider knowledge of the landscape with McCandlish's excellent photographs. Moore's two-page descriptions of the trails are crisply turned but adrenalin-packed, giving readers not just practical information on the terrain they will encounter but also a deeper feel for the pace and flow of each of the 40 routes.More about this book
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Mountain Bike Guide - Inverness and the Cairngorms
30 mountain bike routes of mixed variety from 15km low level for family parties to plus 50km over high ground for the fit. Easy to follow route descriptions plus maps.
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Wednesday 2 May 2007
Scottish Antiquarian, Rare and Out of Print Books
Dunkeld Books have a wide ranging and constantly changing selection of around 5,000 antiquarian, out of print and rare books with some unusual titles currently in stock.Click here for more information on old Scottish books
Wednesday 25 April 2007
Canoeing in Scotland
There is a tremendous range of canoeing sites throughout Scotland ranging from calm inland lochs to rough sea lochs and smooth flowing rivers to raging torents and rapids. Wherever you do you your canoeing in Scotland you can be certain you will be surrounded by beautiful scenery and clear, clean water.
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Friday 6 April 2007
Scottish Outdoor Access Code
Everyone has the right to be on most land and inland water providing they act responsibly. Your access rights and responsibilities are explained fully in the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.
Whether you're in the outdoors or managing the outdoors, the key things are to:
1) Take responsibility for your own actions.
2) Respect the interests of other people.
3) Care for the environment.
Find out more by visiting www.outdooraccess-scotland.com or if you would like to have a copy of the full code please phone Scottish Natural Heritage on telephone number 01738-444177.
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Saturday 10 March 2007
Walking in the Cairngorm Area
One of the problems is that O.S. maps give no indication as to whether an 'other road' is metalled, a path or a forest fire break, or anything in between. Many bridges shown on O.S. maps do not exist. Rivers are difficult to judge in size from the map, and a building may be anything from a pile of stones to a maintained bothy. All is revealed without removing the sense of adventure and exploration. Gradient profiles help to assess how strenuous a route is, and each hand-drawn page contains a wealth of information. The object is to save wasted leisure time and enable the armchair explorer to plan ahead or relive experiences. "The Cairngorm Glens" includes: Braemar, Feshiebridge and Rothiemurchus, Abernethy and Tomintoul.More Scottish Books
Monday 19 February 2007
The Old Packhorse Bridge - Carrbridge
Within the Cairngorms National Park is the small town of Carrbridge. Here you can see a quaint old bridge with a plaque nearby which gives it's history as follows -
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, to the inconvenience of both travellers and local people, there was no pint at which the River Dulnain could be crossed when it was in spate, and burials at the Church of Duthil were often delayed.
Brigadier - General Alexander Grant of Grant, Clan Chief, commissioned John Niccelsone, a mason from Ballindalloch, to build a bridge at Lynne of Dalrachney. Between May and November 1717, the bridge was paid for out of stipends of the Parish of Duthil.
It's parapets and side walls were badly damaged in the 18th century and again in the famous flood of August 1829, giving the appearance it still has today.
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Sunday 18 February 2007
Cairngorm Mountains and Loch Morlich
The Cairngorm Mountain range, overlooking Loch Morlich on a still Winter day.
Cairngorm Mountains and Loch Morlich
It was a cold, crisp, Winter's day but this enhanced the beautiful but rugged Cairngorm Mountains viewed from across the still waters of Loch Morlich. The mountains are situated in the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland.
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Dusk approaches Loch Morlich
Dusk approaches, looking out over the quite and still waters of Loch Morlich, overshadowed by the mighty Cairngorm Mountains in the Highlands of Scotland.
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