Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Over the Pass

One of the best-known rides in the UK is Scotland's NC500 around the coast. Unfortunately, since it was promoted as a tourist route it has become incredibly busy, so I've always consoled myself with the fact that I've travelled these roads before, although that was in a VW bay window campervan in 1975!

When a Sunday evening weather forecast showed a sunny few days ahead, I quickly planned a day ride on the part of the circuit I had not driven in the campervan, the Bealach Na Ba,

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