Well done bonzo, you must have sweated buckets ..
I remember my auld man taking me and my brother to Portencross fishing one day .
bonzo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:12 pm One off the bucket list today finally got round to cycling Arran. Cycle route from my house to the ferry terminal and when I got Brodick I went clockwise round the island.
I must admit the cycle from Brodick to Blackwaterfoot must be the hardest 25 miles I've ever cycled. I was even dreading the drops downhill as I knew there would be a climb at the other side
After Blackwaterfoot it flattend out eventually and was pretty flat to Lochranza where shortly after I was confronted by a bit of a monster of a hill, around a 2.5 mile long constant climb. It beat me I got about half way up using gears I didn't know I had when cramp kicked in. I had to stop and I walked the last mile.
After that it's pretty much down hill back to Brodick where I just missed the 1.55 ferry. So I lounged about in the sunshine to until the next ferry. Off at Ardrossan and back to Irvine.
Really enjoyed today but I don't know if I would do it again. As I've said before I don't like hills, I'm not built for hills. 75 miles from door to door.