Royal Enfield Winter day big ride out Pt 6

 

Royal Enfield Winter day big ride out Pt 5

 

Royal Enfield Winter day big ride out Pt 4

 

Royal Enfield Classic 350 takes on a road of Potholes!

 

Royal Enfield Winter day big ride out Pt 2

Royal Enfield Winter day big ride out Pt 1

A walk around Whiteadder Reservoir...

 

We went a walk around the Whiteadder Reservoir as we have never seen the water level there so low with the lack rainfall...

Built and flooded in the late 1960s the Vally engulfed a school and farm...

Exposed is the remains of Millknowe farm and Kingside school...

Kingside School...

Kingside school...

The tarmac of the old road is in better condition than some roads in use today!

Old roadside  grit bin...

The Vally before flooding showing Kingside school on the left of picture and Millknowe farm in the centre...

G`s grandmother lived at this farm...

While the building have gone the road still remains...

Couple of items picked up on the walk...

More soon...

Royal Enfield Classic 350; Garvald to Whiteadder road...

Monday and quieter country roads, so i took the Royal Enfield Classic 350 a run up into the local Lammermuir Hills leaving the Hillfoots road i dropped down into the sleep small village of Garvald to ride the Road across to the Whiteadder. 

Up past Nunraw and the Monastery - where apparently if you go in you will be invited in for a cuppa and chat, so if your up here and need a recharge you may get some cake too!...

A fun narrow singletrack road  a bit rough in places with lots of gear changes to keep things interesting the Enfiled was really in its element up here, esp now with the engine pulling a lot better at lower revs with the New air filter...

Up onto the Grouse moor now and pulled in at Whitecastle Hillfort, dating from the Iron Age, it is the first point of visit in a guide book I have that was published in the 1970`s...

Like the Geology walking trail at Barnes Ness east of Dunbar which like this both have been forgotten about and signs nearly all disappeared now. A shame as there is a lot of fascinating history in East Lothian...

On we go and came across a Grouse shoot...

Looks like those Renult ex NATO trucks are the vehicle of choice these days for transporting the Shoot beaters - we saw another up at Spey Dam when we went bike packing...

This wee road is ace fun putting along taking it easy mostly in 3rd or 4th gear but there is a couple of 2nd gear bends like here at Johnscleuch Farm...

Past the Cleuch of the WW2 crash site of the Fairy Firefly that crashed here killing the crew

G correct me watching my film that it is only a War Grave if any crew s bodies are not recovered - though it still goes without saying nothing should be lifted and taken from these crash sites which sadly goes on and year on year items disappear from the areas...

Pics

You can read our visit to this crash site in a previous blog HERE...

Soon were at the Whiteadder Water and join the more common used road...

One last thing to point out, the old road through the Glen before it was flooded in the 1960s flooding Millknowe Farm where G`s Grandmother lived, and Kingside school...

Here is some film,

More soon...