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By m1ks
#12457
As per AlanR.
Once you're up here, if you need a stop for any fettling, servicing, maintenance, you can drop by here, tea/coffee/tools readily available, (i'm right next door to the Skye bridge, more or less).
Ditto the Applecross road, you have to stop for a photo at the summit, it's spectacular, also, Eilean Donan Castle at Dornie is well worth a stop, photo and visit, (it's the castle that Highlander was filmed partly at, and more recently Maid/made? of honour)
I don't know about soldiers being issued with SSS but I do know it's very good, to give you an idea, all the locals use it, and all the walking shops have surreptitious stashes under the counter, seriously, (you can't openly display and sell unless an approved Avon retailer y'see)

As for the journey, look at it this way, people have CYCLED greater distances and i've lost count of the number of times i've seen reports and read stories of Honda C90's circumnavigating places
By rustygman
#12470
thanks again guys for the info and offers of help. I am 50 this year with scottish heritage and have never been there - a poor show by me so i intend to put that right. I agree with you m1ks in that small bikes can and do tour the world and i bought the enfield 5 years ago with the plan of riding to india and i hope that will happen in the next few years. The bike has been so reliable i am hoping to keep it pretty much standard. But before all that, the highlands beckon... I will post on the site if the trip comes off (hopefully not pleading for mechanical assitance).

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