I took up cycling last year after buying my first gravel bike and i manageged to complete 3 of your routes now Glasgow - Balloch Balloch - Drymen Callander - Killin (Skipped Drymen - Callander 😅) Looking forward to my next route. Thanks for the guidance
I see you haven’t posted anymore cycling videos now for two years. I hope everything is ok with you. After watching your route 7 videos last spring, four of us completed the legs you posted. Redoing the route out of Glasgow this weekend i rewatched them. Love the commentary the music and style of the videos. Thanks👍👍👍
I'm good thanks. Since lockdown I'm doing more more cycling, but less filming of my rides and I've still got the inverness leg of 7 to edit, 7 years on ugh. Thankyou for the kind words on the videos. They look pretty shakey now, stabilisation technology has moved on so much since I did them, but glad they are still useful 🙂
Thanks for the kind comments. As for the music, what can I say, it was free. If I ever get round to editing the final episode, it will be better, I promise. (BTW its kinda strange noone mentioned the music on any of these for the first 6 years, and suddenly there's a lot of music criticism. Tastes change I suppose). 😉
@@SartorialPictures I guess so. Great videos though and they're giving me a lot of inspiration to come and do these rides when I'm collecting British Cycle Quests. Keep up the good work.
The commentary was fine, the scenery was fine and I know both Callender and Killin. However, the music is appalling and it does nothing to enhance the enjoyment of watching the video.
I’ve so enjoyed these videos - thank you! Heading out from newtonmore today, my last day and only sad it’s nearing the end. Thanks to you and sustrans and my Garmin, navigation has been a breeze! And I had sun and a tailwind over Drumochter 😎 Love to see that final video still, just put some disclaimers in that things may have changed!
Yeah, I go that way a lot now and back up the canal to Maryhill. I keep thinking it's so obvious and don't know how I missed it for the video. I think I should have done dry run first 😎
@@SartorialPictures I'm on the newest version before they really screwed it up. I had to email them and demand a refund for the latest version. Hahaha its like a whole different software, and much worse
I last did the route exactly 1 year ago, and I'd expect no further change since then. So the only update from the video is the addition/improvement of tarmac from callander to the forest holidays park. That covers what was the muddy falls of Leny section. However, the other rough sections remain (1) the strathyre hairpins ... it's short so you can walk that in 5 minutes and (2) the descent into Killin. This is longer and is a bumpy land rover type track. I did it in 23mm tyres in the video so if your road bike is more modern than my 2008 allez and has say 28mm tyres it would be more comfortable than I found it, so long as you take your time.
Thank you so much. I know What you mean about rewatching ... I keep watching the gcn video of the North coast 500. Amazing scenery, it's how I'd like my videos to be. Hoping to get the Inverness one out soon :-)
@@SartorialPictures Ha ha, just so long as I hadn't missed it somewhere. Have watched all of the others this morning in a bit of a NCN7 fest, your films are very enjoyable and easy to watch, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the last piece when you get round to it! :)
@@pootlingalong8928 Thankyou. I've left it so long now that some of the route has been delisted/downgraded out of NCN7 by sustrans as part of their network review 😎.
Thank you for posting this ... so nostalgic. I cycled from Callander to Strathyre on my LEJOG about 7 years ago. I came off the route there to go visit Rob Roy's grave at Balquidder and saw the Glen Ogle viaduct from the road before riding down to Killin. I'd love to ride it again so I could do the section I missed.
Drove past the site today, with difficulty. Instead of an off road car park as before there are hundreds of cars parked on the verge from well below to severAl miles above the original Centre location, making passing other cars very difficult. Madness to remove the Visitor Centre and the loos especially, and it certainly hasn’t reduced the numbers of climbers and walkers in the slightest.
